Witness

Will any be saved during the tribulation?

Chapter seven is a parenthesis. In this chapter there is a break between the sixth and seventh seals. This period of tribulation takes place after the church leaves the earth, after the church concludes its mission and is taken to be with the Lord. From our Scripture passage today I believe we will …

Commissioned to Witness Everywhere

“Witness” is a key word in the book of Acts, and is used 29 times as either a verb or a noun. Instead of knowing the times or dates, the Apostles were to be Christ’s witnesses to the ends of the earth (v. 8). A witness is someone who tells what he has seen and h …

Commissioned to Witness Everywhere

Luke starts by connecting Luke and Acts (vv. 1-2). At the close of Luke’s Gospel, the believers were in the temple praising God. Acts is the story of what came next. Luke tells what Jesus did and said in His human body; Acts tells what He did and said through His spiritual body, the church …

A Promise to Regather The Unworthy

The Lord exhorted Israel not to fear (vv. 1-7) for their condition would show the world that He is truly the only God (vv. 8-13). God had created and framed her and had redeemed her from bondage in Egypt and He would now bring her back home from Babylon in a new “Exodus.” He pictured …

Jesus is the Light

John, who presents Christ as the Son of God, begins his gospel in eternity past. He says that when time began, the Word (Christ) was already in existence (v. 1). Having established the eternity of the Word, John then pro¬ceeds to give a witness about Jesus’s involvement in creation …

The Two Witnesses

When the Rapture of the Church takes place (which could happen at any time (I Cor. 15:52) Israel will build a temple in Jerusalem (vv. 1-2) which may be referred to as the Tribulation Temple…

IllustrationMisappropriated Scripture

In their earlier days, the group known as Jehovah’s Witnesses claimed they constituted the144,000. They misappropriated this Scripture and applied it to themselves, though they are not Jews and never were. They ran into difficulty, however, when the group grew beyond 144,000. The …

IllustrationMorgan: Waiting for God

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means: first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command …

IllustrationKorean Leader Watched His Family Killed

Dr. Joon-Gon Kim, was a well-known Korean Christian leader. He witnessed his wife and father slaughtered before his eyes by communist sympathizers from his own village. He was beaten senseless and left for dead. He survived the beating and asked God to give him love for the …

IllustrationDoubling grains of wheat on a checkerboard

A few years ago, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago had a fascinating display. It showed a checkerboard with 1 grain of wheat on the first square, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, then 8, 16, 32, 64, and so on until they could no longer fit the seeds on the square. The …