Truth that Transforms

Main Point: In Revelation 17 we see the true nature of the world, its alluring system of corruption, and its future judgment.

Main Point: Four scenes of the disciples’ walk to Emmaus with the resurrected Christ lead to irrevocable joy in Him.

Main Point: God’s patience ends and His justice is executed in the final seven bowl judgments against sinners during the tribulation period.

Main Point: Using the occasion of the Philippians’ generosity, Paul presents three principles of Christian contentment.

Main Point: Chapter 15 forms a preview of the rapid-fire bowl judgments and provides three reasons for God’s final wrath.

Main Point: In a preview of the bowl judgments (Revelation 16) and the Battle of Armageddon (Revelation 19), this passage describes the final harvest of divine wrath in two agricultural pictures.

Main Point: Three angels deliver messages of the good news of the gospel, the bad news of judgment, the reality of eternal torment in hell for the unbeliever, and the eternal rest and reward in heaven for the faithful believer.

Main Point: When Christ returns and stands on Mount Zion, the 144,000 Jewish believers will stand with Him in triumph.

Main Point: David describes the moral integrity and personal holiness of the person who worships God.

Main Point: Satan will try to prevent Jesus Christ from setting up His earthly kingdom by setting up his own under the Antichrist and the false prophet.

Main Point: John describes Satan’s final assault on God and the remnant of Israel before Christ’s return.

Main Point: The introduction of the seventh trumpet sets in motion the reign of Jesus Christ over the whole earth. The scene unfolds in three stages.

Main Point: God will raise up two powerful witnesses who fearlessly proclaim the gospel during the last three and a half years of the seven-year Tribulation.

Main Point: God, the author of life, created mankind male and female in His image. This provides the foundation for biblical sexual morality and the sanctity of every human life.

Main Point: In an interlude before the seventh trumpet, in the midst of the fury and horror of divine judgment, a mighty angel and a little book provide great encouragement and hope for God’s people.

Main Point: Each of the first four trumpet judgments affect the physical universe in some way; but with the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets, the focus will shift from the physical to the spiritual realm when demons arise from the abyss and armies come from the east. Both will serve God’s sovereign purposes.

Main Point: In Psalm 110, David depicts Christ in a fivefold light and shows how the kingship of the Messiah connects with His priesthood.

Main Point: The true meaning of Christmas is opened to us 700 years before the birth of Christ in a passage that describes how the Savior will die in our place to save us from our sins.

Main Point: When Jesus breaks the seventh seal, both the redeemed and the angels are reduced to silence as they see the magnitude of God’s final wrath up to the triumphal return of Christ.

Main Point: God’s divine initiative to save us from our sin causes us to rejoice in God.

Main Point: Revelation 7 is an interlude between the sixth and seventh seals to answer the question, “Will people be saved during the Tribulation?”

Main Point: John records what it will be like when the fifth and sixth seals are opened and the wrath of the Lamb comes.

Main Point: The psalmist thanks God for His person, His works, and His everlasting love.