Revelation 11:1-6 Following his commissioning as a prophet of the Lord, John is given a measuring rod to measure the temple, altar and worshippers. Only the inner court was to be assessed, as the Gentiles had taken control of the outer court to “trample on the holy city for 42 months”. This 3.5 year period […]
Chris and Donna visited during Sunday School and Chris shared an update of their longstanding ministry in Japan during the Worship Gathering.
John 20:19-29; The shallowness of the Eleven was revealed by the events of Gethsemane, following the Triumphal Entry of Palm Sunday. Jesus repeatedly found them fast asleep, when they should have been praying for their spiritual protection. Following the arrest, crucifixion and burial of Jesus, the disciples were gathered together in a secrent room with […]
Mark 14:32-42; Christ’s welcome to Jerusalem in the famous Triumphal Entry, but was really a facade, an illusion that the hearts of the crowd were really with Him. Mark instead records that Jesus wept as he neared the place where He knew he would soon be put to death. Following the Last Supper, Jesus took […]
Revelation 10:8-11; John’s encounter with the mighty angel continues, as the voice from heaven who instructed him to seal up the word of the seven thunders, instructs him to take the scroll in the angel’s hand. When John requests the scroll, the mighty angel tells him to take and eat it. This somewhat odd sounding […]
Revelation 10:1-7; Following the horrendous suffering and carnage of trumpets 5 and 6, John exxperiences another interlued that will usher in the sounding of trumpet 7. The aged apostle sees a mighty angel descend from heaven with a small scroll in his hand. His loud shout like a lion triggers the seven thunders, but John […]
Revelation 9:20-21; Following the horrific torture of the demonic locusts of the 5th trumpet and the four fallen angels released from the Ephrates river to bring about the deaths of 1/3 of the remaining population, John observes a very stark reality. Despite the warming from the Lord to those who have rejected His offer of […]
Revelation 9:13-19; “The first woe is past” with the completion of 5 months of horrific torture by the hellish loccust from the Abyss. The second woe is heralded by the 6th angel sounding his trumpet, which prompts a commanding voice from the altar in heaven. Four demonic angels that have been bound along the Euphrates […]
Revelation 9:7012; The apearance of the demon locust unlocked from the Abyss was so intense for John that he recorded their appearance in startling detail. Their composite characteristics reveal the fearsome nature of fallen angels who seek to vent their frustration and hatred upon every facet of God’s creation. Included in the descritpion was the […]
Revelation 9:1-6; Following the warning of the airborn eagle crying “Woe, woe woe”, John observes the 5th angel sounding his trumpet. What the apostle described as “a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth”, is clearly a spiritual being who is given keys to the Abyss. The pit of hell was opened […]