I appreciate the Got Questions? website. I think it’s very helpful in answering a lot of questions about the Bible. However, as an Amillennialist, I disagree with their Dispensational Premillennial position. In one of their articles titled, “What is Dispensationalism and is it Biblical?,” they make the following statement about the thousand years of Read More …
Introduction Is the “age to come” a millennial kingdom, where upon the return of Christ, He sets up His kingdom on this present earth and rules this world as its King? Or is the “age to come” the Eternal Kingdom (eternal state) of the “new heaven and new earth” (Rev 21:1-2), which we enter Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction Verses 1-5 continue the description of the eternal city, the New Jerusalem of the New Earth Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction The “holy city,” the “New Jerusalem,” is both the Church and the actual eternal city, or Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction Dispensational Premillennialism: This is the most popular eschatological position. I talk about this now because we Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotes are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction The description of the end of the world and its whole world system (chapter 18), is Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction Many Bible teachers view “Babylon the great” in this chapter as a literal city, such as Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Identification of terms: The Great Harlot / Babylon The Great City – The world system Many waters Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction As I discussed in chapter 15, it seems certain that all the bowl judgments of this Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Revelation 15 (Rev 15:1) – 1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction Chapter 13 discusses the nature of the Church-age beast, while chapter 14 discusses the judgment of Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction This may be the most talked about chapter in the book of Revelation. We have the Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction The Church is composed of believing Jews and believing Gentiles. Throughout most of this chapter the Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Introduction As I’ve pointed out many times in this commentary, the persecution of Christians is central in Read More …
Commentary on Revelation (covers all chapters from 1 thru 22, including Introduction) Copyright © 2019 by Steve Sewell, Theology First. All Rights Reserved All Scripture quotations are from the 1901 American Standard Version unless otherwise noted. This chapter serves as an introduction to chapter 11 — which is a continuation of the sixth Read More …