September 2017

The year is AD 66. Nero Caesar has banished John, the last living apostle, to the Island of Patmos “for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Nero, who sometimes wears the skin of a beast while performing despicable acts of torture, has been murdering Christians…

The “false Jews” of Jesus day preferred the old wine of the Mosaic Age. The true Jews—the sons of Abraham by faith (Rom. 4:9–16)—wanted new wine. Jesus used a parable to describe this situation: And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new…

God loves order and design. He often uses structure and repetition in his creation. The palm tree in this image is an example of both. As we apply inmillennialism to the book of Revelation, we see the structure God used. He instructed John to “write the things that thou hast…

Churches are not often concerned about false Jews today. If someone identifies themselves as a Jew, people do not ask for verification. And they shouldn’t. In John’s day, a unique historical situation made “false Jews” a threat to the churches. This category did not arise from a person’s ethnicity, but…