In Romans 1, when Paul confronted the stuff we’d rather not talk about and laid out the litany of sinful lifestyles people who deny God get caught up in, he knew there were some in the crowd with puffed chests and raised chins. He knew people were looking around at…
Paul wants to get the hard stuff out of the way right up front, so he begins with the never-popular subject of the wrath of God. People don’t like to talk about God’s wrath. It’s scary and uncomfortable. So instead, we just talk about God’s love. Don’t get me wrong.…
Throughout time God has used people to proclaim His message. He used prophets in the Old Testament, apostles in the New Testament and He will use the 144,000 Jewish believers in the tribulation. He even uses each one of us as we share the gospel and tell people how our…
After the brief pause in the opening of the seven seals, the Revelation continues as Jesus opens the final seal. Suddenly, there is silence in heaven for thirty minutes. The silence must have been deafening in contrast to the sound of continual worship. When the seventh seal is finally opened,…