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The Great Tribulation was referred to in the Old Testament as the "time of trouble," Jeremiah 30:7. Two things will happen to Israel during the Tribulation: 1) Israel will be disciplined for her rejection of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, and 2) Jews will be prepared to receive their Messiah "whom they pierced," Zechariah 12:10. In Revelation 7, we have the evidence of a great revi...

The dramatic moment has arrived. God's book, the book of destiny, the great book of history, the book that spells out what is to happen in the end of time is to be opened. But note, the Lamb does not open the scroll at this point. He merely breaks the seals. And the events of the seals are not the end of history itself. They are the events which immediately precede the end. The seals of a boo...

Last Sunday we looked at the rapture of the church. John pictured for us what it will be like to be snatched out of this world and taken to Heaven. That will be a thrilling experience! However, the question that is often asked by people regarding Heaven is this: "What will we do when we get there?" That is a good question! It is a question we will answer this Sunday. Join us for "I&...

The heart of man is described three different ways in the New Testament. The Disciples on the Emmaus road had a burning heart (Luke 24:32) and Matthew 24:12 speaks of a cold heart. But in the Laodicean church had a third kind of heart, they were "lukewarm neither cold nor hot." A lukewarm Christian has compromised his faith. He is no longer fervent in spirit (Romans 12:11) or prayer (Col...

This Sunday we will be looking at the Church at Philadelphia which was one of the few churches that were commended by the Lord in his letters. This one is found in Revelation 3. I would have most wanted to be a part of this church on the day the mailman delivered these letters to the churches. I would not have wanted to be identified with some of the other churches who were rebuked for their compr...

This Sunday we will be looking at the Church at Sardis which was called the Dead Church from Revelation 3. Christ designates Himself as the One who operates the churches through the ministers of the churches by the seven-fold ministry of the Holy Spirit. Christ's relationship to the church follows a simple principle: The Church works by the power of the Holy Spirit through the leadership in t...

This Sunday, as we continue through the book of Revelation, we move to the church in Revelation 2:18-29. The letter to the Church at Thyatira is the longest of the seven letters, and it is written to the most insignificant of the seven cities. The compromise with sin, Satan, and the world that began in Pergamos becomes full scale in Thyatira. The church at Thyatira had become entrenched in the wor...

This Sunday we will look at the third letter to the churches in Revelation 2. We began our study with the church at Ephesus, which represents the believer and church that left their first love. Then we looked at church in Smyrna, which represents the faithful church and believer who suffer persecution. Now we come to the third church, which was at Pergamos. The Church at Pergamos was the church at...

The church is sometimes called upon to suffer terrible persecution. This has always been true down through history, and it was certainly true in Smyrna. The church was under heavy attack from both the community and city officials. And there was even more persecution coming (Revelation 2:10), but the church was faithful to Christ and His mission. The church stood fast for truth against all attacks....

This Sunday in our Study of Revelation we will begin to look at the Seven Churches mentioned in Revelation 2-3. Each of the messages to the churches have a three-fold meaning: primary, personal, and prophetic. The primary association has a local and direct bearing upon the church to which it was written. The personal application is for us today, as their message also applies to every Christian. Th...

This Sunday we begin our journey through The Book of Revelation. The word "revelation" means to uncover and unveil. It means to pull back a covering or a veil that is hiding something. It is a revelation of truth that man could never discover for himself. God Himself has drawn back the curtains and revealed mysteries to us and promised a special blessing to all who read and follow it. &q...

"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one." This Sunday's message is entitled, "The Protection of Prayer" as we look at the last phrase found in the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:13. This prayer has a negative request - lead us not into temptation, and a positive request - deliver us from the evil one. These statements bring to our attention several...

Christians are characterized as those who forgive. In Matthew 5:43, we find that the traditional Jewish rabbis taught, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy." But Jesus said, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you, and persecute you, that ye may be the sons of the Father" (Matthew 5:...

We have been studying the Disciples' Prayer at great length, and we now come to verse 12 in Matthew 6, "And forgive us our debts"; and then a footnote on verse 12 in verses 14 and 15 "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." These thre...

This week is the grand finale of our Forward series, and it’s a beautiful closing statement on Joshua’s service as well as a charge to us all. Have you ever heard someone say, "I felt the prayer?" In Joshua 10, we see a looming battle and as the Israelites gain the upper hand and we see an amazing prayer. Joshua 10:14 says, “There has been no day like it before or since when the Lord hee...

When we pray "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done," we are praying that His rule and reign would come in the hearts and lives of the people who don't know Him; we are praying that His rule and reign would come in our hearts to the fullness He's worthy of; and we're praying, too, that someday He will come and break the tyranny of sin and set this evil, ugly, cursed world rig...

We serve the Lord as we pray, when our prayers are in accord with His design for prayer. Prayer is as vital to the Christian as breathing is to the human being, giving us our life, and sustenance so we must know how to pray! Here in the Disciples' prayer, or what is commonly know as the Lord's Prayer, Jesus gives us a skeleton from which all prayers are to find form. This Sunday we will...

"Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name..." How do we hallow God's name? It's more than words we say in a prayer. The implication in the Lord's Prayer is that God's name is to be hallowed in our lives. This prayer is not saying that God's name is to be revered as holy just in heaven or around the world, it is saying that God's name is to be res...