God’s wrath
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(Romans 5:1-25) The book of Romans is a wonderful book, and it does for me what no other book in the Bible does for me. It’s the book where the Apostle Paul laid out his systematic theology, and it’s built precept upon precept to clearly reveal to us how Christianity is structured. Chapter 3 verses…
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(Romans 3:21-31) John Calvin once said that there is not probably in the whole Bible a passage which encapsulates most profoundly the righteousness of God in Christ than Romans 3 verse 20 through 31. Noteworthy is the fact that Galatians and Romans are the doctrinal books of Paul. They are the systematic theologies of the…
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(Romans 2:1-16) In Romans chapter 1, we learned about the degradation, and poverty, and godlessness of pagan society and culture. However, it is important that we realize the description of pagan societies did not really meet all the pagans. There are many moral pagans like Seneca whom Tertullian commends as being a moral man against…
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Paul wrote in Romans 8:20, “…creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God”. But in Romans 8:28, “God causes all things to…
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(Romans 1:18-32) Here we are presented with a stark contrast of the Gospel against the backdrop of the horror of the complete lostness of man. Chapter 1:18 through 3:20 is really one literary context. Notice in verse 18, “The wrath of God…” – the Bible talks much about God’s love, but i submit to you…
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(Rev. 10:1-11) Revelation 10:1 through chapter 11:14 is an interlude between the sixth and seventh trumpets as in the case of the seals back in chapter 7. “I saw another mighty angel coming down out of heaven,…” – many have asserted that this mighty angel is much like the angel back in chapter 5:2. But…
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(cf. Rev. 8:6-13) As there is a distinction between the first 4 seals, and the last 3, here, the first 4 trumpets are largely concerned with the forces of nature and the 3 with people. “The first (angel) sounded, and there came hail and fire,” – the next few verses are going to be a…
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(cf. Rev. 8:1-5) And He broke the seventh seal, Him being Jesus. Jesus breaks the first seven seals, but angels are the instrumentalities for the seven trumpets and the seven bowls. And there was silence in heaven for about 30 minutes. This ‘silence’ has been greatly disputed. Some of the rabbis say that there was…
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WHO IS, AND WHO WAS, AND WHO IS TO COME(cf. Rev. 1:1-20) This prophecy relates to the then, and it relates to the now, and it relates to the ultimate. It speaks of the open secret – the mystery of the union of Jews and Gentiles in the Messiah as one new people of God…
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(Revelation 1:1-20) Prologue Chapter 1 of the book of Revelation gives us a beautiful picture of the glorified Christ, which sets the stage for each of the letter to the seven churches. This shows us something about how Christ has dealt with martyrdom and persecution as an example for them to follow. Let’s look at…