Our guest blogger, Jay Chambers, is out of town this week attending a family member’s funeral in Alabama. I will use his absence as an opportunity to contribute some thoughts related to the series of posts he began last week (here). Jay wants to show that adopting an optimistic view…
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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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The words from the flight attendant always filled me with joy and happiness: “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Memphis International Airport.” My job required me to travel out of town a few times each year. While I was away, I experienced the words first penned in Francis Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody…