Dec 28, 2025

Scripture Reading: Revelation 11:1-14

This chapter in Revelation is one of the places in the book in which the interpretive principles of the commentator show through very clearly.  Over a century ago, Henry Alford, a reputable New Testament scholar and commentator, wrote that Revelation 11 is "undoubtably one of the...

Dec 21, 2025

Scripture Reading: Micah 5:1-5a

There are many prophecies in the Old Testament regarding the coming of Jesus Christ in His first advent, beginning with a very early reference in Genesis 3:15.  One of the wonderful predictions of the coming of Christ is found in Micah 5. 

Micah lived and wrote 700 years before...

Dec 14, 2025

Scripture Reading: Revelation 10:1-11

The context of this chapter is the interlude between the sounding of the sixth trumpet … in chapter 9 … and the sounding of the seventh trumpet … in the middle of chapter 11.

As there was an interlude between the breaking and opening of the sixth and the seventh seals …...

Dec 8, 2025

Scripture Reading: Revelation 9:13-21

This passage contains another description of the horrors brought to humanity during the coming time of tribulation.  The sounding of the sixth trumpet will bring the death of a third of the earth's population (Rev 9:18).  Like the fifth trumpet, this judgment will be effected by a...

Dec 1, 2025

Scripture Reading: Ezekiel 28:11-19

Origin and fall of Satan

Ezekiel 28:11-19

Names and titles of Satan

Satan ('adversary') - Job 1,2; 1 Chr 21:1

Devil  ('slanderer') - Mt 4:5; 1 Pet 5:8

Beelzebul ('lord of flies') - Mt 12:27; Lk 11:15

Belial ('worthless') - 2 Cor 6:15

Serpent - Gen 3:1; Rev 12:9

Evil One - Jn 17:15; 1 Jn...