What kind of book is Revelation? The fancy name for Revelation is the Apocalypse, a Greek derived word meaning ‘uncovering’ or ‘unveiling or literally ‘revelation’ in other words ‘not covering up’. “a famous book in which St. John concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by commentators who know nothing.” (Ambrose Bierce) Revelation commentaries are often like a black hole (in astronomy) they are so dense that no light can escape from them……

In our last blog we pointed out that the term ‘Antichrist’ is rare in scripture and even when Paul’s ‘man of sin/lawlessness’ is equated with Antichrist the evidence is still quite thin.
One of my prized students in Barbados, Kevin, responded to my blog by asking about the beast(s) in the book of Revelation vis-à-vis Antichrist.  Kevin is in good company because the late Brethren scholar F.F. Bruce, in the Word Biblical Commentary on 2…

There is very little about the Antichrist in the Bible and there is no biblical support for a seven-year tribulation period largely controlled by the Antichrist prior to the end of time, despite the current popularity of these ideas within Christian circles.
Every period of Church history from the age of the Apostles to now has produced speculation concerning evil in general and fascination with the supreme embodiment of evil in particular called either the…

Christians and others need to understand something of the history surrounding the emergence of what we now call the New Testament. In a nutshell books were written by different authors during the 1st century AD about Jesus’ life and ministry and about happenings in the Christian communities of the time.  Such books would be recommended for reading in Churches and if they were approved for such use in any widespread way they would begin to…

Sabbatarian Claim:
1.  At Sinai God gave 2 laws.  The primary was the Decalogue, moral in essence, written on stone tablets and placed inside the golden ark.  The secondary, the ‘book of the law’, ceremonial in essence, written by Moses and placed beside the ark (Deut. 31.26) is what is referred to in the New Testament as the ‘first/old covenant’.
2.  At Calvary it was the ‘book of the law’ only that was abolished.
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