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 ...
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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 ...
Joel’s Revelation Commentary–Revelation 12: A Woman, a Child, and a Dragon…O My!
I best some of you were wondering when I would get around to tackling the second half of Revelation. Well, here it is. Revelation 12 marks the beginning of anot...
Revelation 10: The Angel and the Little Scroll (Part 10)
Just as chapter 7 was a “break in the action” between the 6th and 7th seals, this next section (10:1-11:14) is also a “break in the action” between the 6th and ...
Revelation 9: The 5th and 6th Trumpets–Fallen Stars, Locusts, and a King of the Abyss, O My! (Part 9)
We now come to Revelation 9, and the 5th and 6th trumpets. As I pointed out in the last post, the first four trumpets are similar to the first four seals, in th...
Revelation 8: The 7th Seal, Silence, then the Sound of the First 4 Trumpets (Part 8)
We now come to Revelation 8, and the opening of the 7th seal. It is at this point that I want to briefly stop and reiterate a point that I have alluded to befor...
Revelation 7: The 144,000, the Great Multitude, and the Great Tribulation…Get Ready to be Surprised! (Part 7)
At the end of chapter 6, the kings of the earth ask, “Who will be able to stand?” As soon as chapter 7 opens, we start to find out: four angels are standing, th...
Revelation 4-5: God’s Throne Room, the Lamb, and the Scroll (Part 5)
The Apocalyptic Symphony Starts With the beginning of chapter 4, we have the “first movement” of the symphony of Revelation—this is where the main concert begin...
The Book of Revelation: It’s Finally Here–Something that Will Help You Understand It! (Part 1)
Whenever I taught the book of Revelation to my high school students, one of the first things I did was this. I’d take any object, put it on the table in the fro...
Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion”: The New Testament…Worse than the Old Testament? (Part 18)
It is fairly common to people complain about how blood-thirsty the God of the Old Testament seems to be. Or, at the very least, the violence in the Old Testamen...