My good friend Chris Brekke does a thrice-weekly on-line meditation, similar to these EmailMeditations. His blog is called “Seasoned Hope” and can be seen at: https://pcbrek2020.wordpress.com/ . Today’s meditation is a repost of his March 2 posting. Thanks, Chris! —————————————–    Hypothetically, in some dark reality, if you were a villain out to ruin […]
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Matthew 24:42-44  —  (Jesus said),  “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.  But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
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   (…continued) #5: The Vision. This raises another question. What was the nature of John’s vision? Was it like a dream, or did he really see these things? Was he transported from Patmos, into the future, and then to heaven, and then back to his prison cell? Or was the vision a creative literary
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   (…continued) I have seven points I want to make on the book of Revelation.    #1: The Background. The Roman Empire had its own version of the Alcatraz prison surrounded by water. It was on a rocky island in the Aegean Sea called Patmos. Patmos today belongs to the nation of Greece,
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Adapted from a sermon I gave February 9, 2025 on the New Testament Book of Revelation. ****************************    The reading before the sermon was from Revelation 13:11-18: 11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. 12 And he exercises all the
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Then the end will come, when (Jesus) hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.  –I Corinthians 15:28   In this verse Paul is writing about the end of the world.  “Then the end will come…” he said.  When I was a child, I was
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    Alma was a sweet old lady in a congregation where I was a pastor years ago.  She had not always lived in North Dakota.  She had grown up in Pennsylvania where her parents belonged to a small religious sect.  What she described of the group sounded like something we would today call a cult.Â
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“The Book of Revelation is Not About the Rapture, ” by Richard Gilbert, posted July 30, 2018 at <www.corechristianity.com>, adapted from “Christ & The Book of Revelation” in Modern Reformation, Mar/April 1993. ———————————- (…continued)    2. Revelation was written to the persecuted church.    It is important to note first the circumstances under which
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“The Book of Revelation is Not About the Rapture, ” by Richard Gilbert, posted July 30, 2018 at <www.corechristianity.com>, adapted from “Christ & The Book of Revelation” in Modern Reformation, Mar/April 1993. ———————————- Revelation 22:18 — I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God
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Above images: Isaiah 11:6; 65:25 —————————-    (…continued)  God’s intention was to do without the big stick.  The Bible makes it clear that God would much rather deal with us by love and mercy and soft words.  That is God’s preferred way of working with us, and that is probably the way all people
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