Tag: end-times
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God’s Love For Israel – Day 6
Day 6 Good morning and welcome to day six of this short series focusing on God’s love for Israel. Yesterday we looked at the forgiveness of God towards Israel. Scripture is very clear that just before Christ Jesus returns in power and glory, there will be a period of intense tribulations. These end-time tribulations will…
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God’s Love For Israel – Day 5
Day 5 Good morning and welcome to day five of this short series focussing on God’s love for Israel. Yesterday we explored the faithfulness of God towards Israel. There is no doubt that Israel has much to be forgiven for! But God will have compassion on His people and forgive them their sins and transgressions.…
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God’s Love For Israel – Day 4
Day 4 Good morning and welcome to day four of this short series focusing on God’s love for Israel. Yesterday we looked at how rebellious Israel can be as a people. God is always faithful though to his covenant. He fully intends that His beloved Israel will walk with Him through all eternity. May I…
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God’s Love For Israel – Day 3
This is day 3 of a fourteen part series. Day 3 Good morning and welcome to day three of this short series focussing on God’s love for Israel. Yesterday we looked briefly at God’s love and compassion for the Jewish people. It is fair to say that the Jewish people have not always walked faithfully…
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God’s Love For Israel – Day 2
Day 2 God has always expressed his unfailing love and compassion for the Jews. Jeremiah 31:3 ‘The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have drawn you with loving kindness, I will build you up again.” Isaiah 54:7 “For a brief moment I abandoned you,…
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God’s Love For Israel – Day 1
Day 1 The end-time redemptive salvation of the Jewish people is a major feature of the return of Christ Jesus. I have chosen a few verses from scripture that I believe express this coming redemptive salvation. One of the greatest transformations within my spiritual life, in the past few years, has come from aligning myself…
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Awesome Thunder!
Revelation 4:5 ‘From the throne came flashes of lightening, rumblings and peals of thunder’. This Old Testament style of description adds to the drama of the moment and speaks of the awesome power and glory of the presence of God. Exodus 19:16 records: ‘On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning,…
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Prepared
Revelation 1:1 ‘which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place’. God has brought revelation that we might know the times and the seasons we are living in. Many believe that they will prepare themselves when the time comes but the implication here is that there will be no time to…
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The Slain Lamb
Revelation 5:6 ‘Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the centre of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders’. Leon Morris catches it elegantly when he writes: ‘When earth-bound men want symbols of power they conjure up mighty beasts and birds of prey. Russia…
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The Sea of Glass
Revelation 4:6 ‘Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal’. Opinions are divided as to the meaning of this verse. Legend has it that when the Queen of Sheba visited Solomon she thought that a pavement of clear glass that he had set before his throne was…
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Jerusalem
Please pray for that city, the holy city, the bitter and bloodied city, where our faith began and where our faith will gather us to, the city of covenant promise, the city of particular scandal, the city that the world will come to hate, the beloved city of our Lord, please weep and pray for…
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Who is worthy?
Revelation 5:2 ‘And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice: Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll. But no-one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it.’ Matthew Henry, the 18th Century expositor wrote sublimely on this subject.…
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Walking with God…
Revelation 3:4 ‘They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy’. The white clothes speak of the righteousness of Christ Jesus. What a delightful verse. To walk in fellowship and friendship with Christ, dressed in his righteousness and to be his faithful servant. What more could one ask for? This verse takes…
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Wait in eager anticipation…
Revelation 4:2 ‘At once I was in the Spirit’ Revelation chapter 4 verse two describes John being taken up in the Spirit into the heavenly realms. The point is worth making that, although we may be earth-bound citizens, that nevertheless we may be prophetically taken up into the heavens and catch just a glimpse of…
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The deep beauty
Revelation 6:9 ‘When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar, the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of god and the testimony they had maintained.’ There is a deep beauty in the midst of the darkness. Martyrdom is no stranger to the churches of the Middle East…
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Messiah fake news
Over the past few days there have been viral reports on social media that a Jewish rabbi has been proclaimed as the Messiah. An excellent rebuttal of these claims has been made by John Enarson on the Joel Richardson channel. His urgent message is that the Christian Church should not be promoting or spreading these…
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Prayers of the saints…
Revelation 5:8 ‘And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints’. Worship and prayer go together so well…a match made in heaven. Each one of…
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Do not fear…
Revelation 1:17 describes John meeting the risen Christ in all his resurrected glory. Revelation 1:17a ‘Do not be afraid’. John, no doubt, held the usual fears and worries that we all do but here, in this moment of perfect communion with the living Christ, all fears would fall away, to be replaced with the balm…
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The Turbulent Flight!
I once caught a commercial flight from Athens to Tel Aviv and we went through a severe thunderstorm. The plane was going up and down like a yo-yo and so was my stomach! The passengers, including myself, were all very frightened. Some were getting up to go the toilet, some were opening the overhead lockers…
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The Single Pearl
Revelation 21:21 ‘The twelve gates were made of twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The pearl represents virginal purity and Jesus is the gate: John 10:9 ‘I am the gate, whoever enters through me will be saved.’ The single pearl denotes that Jesus is the only way, the only gate through which…
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