Two facts from our last “Meditation in Matthew” (here) combine to suggest our present topic. First, God fulfilled the four prophecies in Matthew 2:1–23 in the “last days” of the Mosaic Age. Second, Herod played a key role in each of them. Few commentators see Herod as a major figure…
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The post The Seven Vials — Part 2: Our Vision caused interesting reactions. One reader suggested I am smoking a hallucinogenic drug. Speaking of his younger days, he said, “none of us had the wild visions you have had and/or [sic] still having. Perhaps you would send me some of…
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Book Of RevelationProphecy
The Seven Mystic Figures — Part 4: Sea Beast
by Mike Rogersby Mike RogersWe need to chat about prophetic beasts. Our interpretation of Revelation using the inmillennial model requires it. They will play a major role in the rest of Revelation’s drama. In an earlier post, we saw how the Seven Mystic Figures vision describes the generation between Jesus’s birth and the destruction of the…
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Book Of RevelationProphecy
The Seven Mystic Figures — Part 1: Identities
by Mike Rogersby Mike Rogers666 conjures up mystical images of evil. That fact that 666 is the sum of the numbers on a roulette wheel, or that the Aryan Brotherhood uses it in tattoos, or that Apple, Inc. used it as the name of a wicked computer virus does not surprise us. Many Christians…
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[Note: this article also appeared (here) in The Paper Pulpit of The Gadsden Times, Jan. 28, 2017.] We Christians place all our eggs in one basket—Jesus Christ. Our knowledge of Jesus comes from a single source—the Bible. We believe it “is given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16–17)…