| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 33 secs | 0 Comments
Great to have you with us on New Year’s Day, on the adventure of ‘The New Testament in One Year’. What a way to start though, with a long list of names! It shows us that Jesus is the climax of Old Testament history. The one that they had been waiting for. The Messiah (which […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 23 secs | 0 Comments
The intimacy of God with his people is stressed further in today’s passage, along with an abundance of blessing. Revelation is meant to increase our desire and longing for God and for us to realise His purposes. The wonderful surety of final bliss comforts us now and in tough times. The tawdry counterfeits of the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 18 secs | 0 Comments
Phew! Nearly made it through Revelation. We are in familiar territory again, basking in the beauty and glory of what eternity will be like. These final visions weave in a whole host of themes from the rest of Scripture – creation, v.1, the holy city, v.2, the communion of God using marriage imagery, v.2, the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 9 secs | 0 Comments
In today’s passage we have the last judgement, put positively, v.1-8 and negatively, v.11-15, and the thorny issue of the 1,000 year reign! Everything is wrapped up – God vindicates the saints who have been suffering and executes final judgement on Satan, the source of evil, having already judged the beast, the prostitute and the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 21 secs | 0 Comments
I’ve put a # in the title of today’s reading as there are so many “final” battles, I’m confused which one it is! Actually I’m not, because Revelation is not written in chronological order, it is written thematically. John has had another vision and is tackling the end from another angle. Heaven opens and the […]
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While those profiting from Babylon mourn and lament and the saints rejoice, an angel takes a great millstone and throws it into the sea. Babylon has fallen forever. No more of its exploitation and oppression and martyring of Christians. In chapter 19 great worship goes up – repeated Hallelujahs accompanied by the roar of heaven. […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 24 secs | 0 Comments
An angel announces the fall of Babylon – all that the world offers, instead of God, comes to nothing. This passage has many allusions to Old Testament prophecies about ancient Babylon and Tyre (Jeremiah 50-51, Ezekiel 27). Babylon’s fall is complete – nothing left. Unlike Jerusalem in the exile, there will be no remnant or […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 28 secs | 0 Comments
The cycles of judgement have ended! One of the angels comes to John to show him how Babylon, the beast and the prostitute come to a sticky end. In chapter 17 we see how Babylon is the counterfeit church, just as Satan, the beast and the prostitute are a counterfeit trinity. Babylon is corrupt; the church […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 44 secs | 0 Comments
It feels like it’s getting very repetitive! And that’s the point. John is telling the story of the end, leading to the judgement, from different perspectives, rather than giving us a linear timeline of events. After all how many last battles can there be? (6:16-17; 15:1; 16:14) The first bowls are similar to the first […]