“Faith without works is dead” (Jas. 2:20). An accurate prophetic framework that produces no effects in our daily lives is worthless. A prophetic view that does not make us more holy turns us into sounding brass and tinkling symbols (cp. 1 Cor. 13:1). God intends for prophecy to change…
Bride Vision
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Book Of RevelationProphecy
The Messianic Age as the New Heaven and Earth — Part 3
by Mike Rogersby Mike RogersA reader noticed our last post omitted elements of the new heavens and earth. They also contain no tears, sorrow, crying, or pain (Rev. 21:4). He wanted to know how our prophetic framework, inmillennialism, explains these features. The “new heavens and earth” do not describe eternity per se. Death, child-bearing,…
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Book Of RevelationProphecy
The Messianic Age as the New Heaven and Earth — Part 2
by Mike Rogersby Mike RogersThis post will appear during Passion Week, 2018. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Sunday and gave the Olivet Discourse on Tuesday. He died on the cross on Friday and rose from the dead on Sunday. His resurrection established the “new heavens and earth” (Rev. 21:1) of Revelation’s seventh vision. We…
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Book Of RevelationProphecy
The Messianic Age as the New Heaven and Earth — Part 1
by Mike Rogersby Mike RogersOur last post showed the “new heaven and new earth” (Rev. 21:1) do not represent the eternal state. Saints do not go there only when they die. Rather, the “new heaven and new earth” is the environment in which God’s saints live during the Messianic Age. We will give our…
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Can you imagine death in heaven? The existing prophetic frameworks imply it will be there. They also suggest other surprising conditions will exist. These implications arise from the subject of Revelation’s seventh vision (Rev. 21–22:7). The existing prophetic models all teach John’s “new heaven and a new earth” (Rev. 21:1)…