The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 12): Christian Persecution in the Roman Empire
Now we come to the final topic regarding early Christianity in the Roman Empire: persecution. Two things must be said up front: first, despite what some might t...
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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...
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 ...
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...