Romans 11:28-31: God’s gifts Part One
Outline Christ and the temple Christ’s and the priesthood Introduction The Third Temple is the name given to the Temple which certain eschatological views hope to see rebuilt in the Millennium. Presently on the temple mount in Jerusalem where Solomon’s temple once stood now sit two Muslim structures preventing the rebuilding of any temple. Orthodox Jews are not allowed to pray on the Temple mount and so pray at what is called the Wailing Wall. But everyday they pray for the rebuilding of Ezekiel’s temple. Orthodox Jews are divided as to whether any sacrifices need to be offered in...
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Revelation 20:7-15: The end of all things
Outline Satan’s judgement Final judgement Introduction God’s vindication is a very important theme in Scripture, that God seeks to show His power, holiness and justice and all His perfections, and to demonstrate it in fulfilling His promises of judgement upon sin. We can think of that statement by Paul that in salvation God seeks to be just and the justifier. In other words, God cannot overlook sin and forgive it, He cannot credit us as righteous unless He first actually deals with our sins, and this He did in our substitute. Justice is served and the sinner saved, in...
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Revelation 20:1-6: The Millennium
Outline Contextual considerations V1-3 V4-6 Introduction Babylon is defeated, the beast and the false prophet are defeated, the armies that arranged themselves against the church are defeated, but what about the devil the great enemy of the church? God answers this question and more in this section. He tells us about how the devil is bound, and more what the destiny of the saint is who dies under the devil’s rampaging. The devil is symbolised in the picture of a dragon and serpent, but the church is spoken of as martyrs. The book of revelation has revealed the satanic...
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Revelation 1:9: The normal Christian life
Introduction: We finally come to the first vision. The people of God are in a battle, they are about to be at the centre of the most powerful forces of the universe unleashed. They are about to be killed in large numbers. Massive upheavals are about to happen in the political sphere. Terrible judgements are about to be poured out upon the world. The Son of Man who will one day judge the world is going to be shown to set a series of events in motion which have gargantuan ramifications for the church. What do you think the...
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Revelation: The Hermeneutics of Amillenialism: Part Four
Introduction: When Amillennialists point out to Premills that they base their view for a literal Millennium on a single reference from the most symbolic book in the bible, they agree that it would be foolish to make a doctrine on the basis of one verse, and point out that the main evidence for a literal earthly millennium, which consists in Christ ruling from Israel; with world peace; a rebuilt temple; reinstituted sacrifices; the Jewish calendar; circumcision, etc., is found primarily in the OT. They claim that Revelation 20 should be read in light of these OT texts, and any denial of...
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Revelation: Introduction to Revelation: Overview of views and terms
Introduction: Last week was our official start of a new series in the book of Revelation. It is one of the most contested books in the bible but that should not stop us from studying it. The fact that Christians differ strongly upon it is not grounds for us to avoid it. If we avoided every doctrine that Christians fought over there would be nothing left to believe. No the book of Revelation is a vital book for all the church and one of tremendous encouragements and warnings. We will slowly go through this book and seek to speak...
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