Joel’s Commentary on Revelation: Revelation 21–The New Jerusalem
We now come to the climax of not only Revelation, of not only the New Testament, but of the entire biblical story itself—it is the climax of God’s entire creati...
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Joel’s Commentary on Revelation: Revelation 20– The 1,000 Years, the Great White Throne, and the Lake of Fire
Without a doubt, Revelation is one of the most puzzling chapters in all of the Bible. There is little chance that every question can be adequately answered in s...
Joel’s Commentary on Revelation: Revelation 18-19–Flee Babylon, Come to the Lamb’s Wedding Banquet, and Don’t Get Caught Being the Supper of God!
Fortunately, Revelation 18 does not need much explanation. Most of what is said in chapter 18 repeats the things said in the previous 17 chapters. Revelation 18...
Joel’s Commentary on Revelation–Revelation 17: The Whore of Babylon
Chapters 17-19:10 form somewhat of a parenthesis to the basic action of Revelation. Now that Babylon has been split apart in chapter 16, John takes a timeout to...
Atheist Jerry Coyne is a Scientist: He Can Review Books Without Even Having to Read Them (Part 2)
In my previous post, I discussed Jerry Coyne’s dismissive book review of a new book from BioLogos entitled, How I Changed My Mind About Evolution: Evangelicals ...
Atheist Jerry Coyne Reviews a BioLogos Book on Evolution…Even Though He Didn’t Bother to Read It! (Part 1)
The other day I came across a short book review by Jerry Coyne, the well-known atheist and biology professor at the University of Chicago. It was entitled, R...
Joel’s Commentary on Revelation: Revelation 16–The Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath
In Revelation 16, we have the seven bowls of God’s wrath—these are very similar to the seven seals and the seven trumpets. The only thing to point out here is t...
Joel’s Commentary on Revelation: Revelation 15–The Ultimate Exodus…Get Those Bowls of Wrath Ready!
Before we get into Revelation 15-16, I want to emphasize something about the two beasts from Revelation 13 that I should have earlier. Over the past 100 years o...
Joel’s Commentary on Revelation: Revelation 14–Here Comes the 144,000…AGAIN!
Back in Revelation 6, with the breaking of the fifth seal, we were introduced to the martyred saints under the Altar of Souls. They were told to wait until the ...
Joel’s Revelation Commentary: Revelation 13–THE BEAST…wait…TWO BEASTS!
At the end of Revelation 12, after we are told that the dragon went off to make war against the rest of the woman’s offspring, the chapter ends with the dragon ...