Book of Revelation – wilderness99

Sunday News 4 May 2025

Double vision. ‘Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet partContinue reading “Sunday News 4 May 2025”

Sunday News 13 April 2025

Beware – the fences are down. Before the last general election in my country – a couple of years ago now – I remember feeling a burst of outrage over what appeared to me the shear ungodliness of one of the candidates. My feelings were increased by the apparent blindness of people, including some believers,Continue reading “Sunday News 13 April 2025”

Revelation in the wilderness – 4. Opening a drawer.

Moving to chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation, I find myself fascinated to see what Jesus dictated to be written in the only letters from himself to any churches, which are now found in the Bible. And while some readers of the Bible today hold that prophecy ceased with the completion of what it nowContinue reading “Revelation in the wilderness – 4. Opening a drawer.”

Revelation in the wilderness – 3. The beginning and the ending.

Before we consider the messages from the Lord to the seven churches described in chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation, there is one further point from chapter 1 which I will consider here, because to me it is an important part of Jesus’ message to all churches and all people. This concerns verse 8: ‘IContinue reading “Revelation in the wilderness – 3. The beginning and the ending.”

Revelation in the wilderness – 2. What’s in an intro?

Following on from my last post about the style and function of Revelation chapter 1, here are some further thoughts about the content. ‘The Revelation of Jesus Christ’ – the first words of the Book of Revelation identify the owner of the message. Verse 1 then describes a chain of command through which the messageContinue reading “Revelation in the wilderness – 2. What’s in an intro?”