by Paul Apple | Feb 7, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE MINISTRY OF THE TWO WITNESSES (UNDER GOD’S PROTECTION UNTIL MARTYDOM) PROCLAIMS THE MESSAGE OF COMING JUDGMENT INTRODUCTION: John Walvoord: Chapter 11 of the Revelation continues the parenthetical section beginning in chapter 10 and extending through...
by Paul Apple | Feb 5, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: GOD CONTROLS THE DISSEMINATION OF HIS REVELATION OF END TIME EVENTS AND GUARANTEES FULFILLMENT AS IT IS ASSIMILATED AND PROCLAIMED INTRODUCTION: Buist Fanning: The initial vision (10:1–11) of this interlude before the seventh trumpet comes in two related...
by Paul Apple | Feb 5, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: HUMAN DEPRAVITY REMAINS DEFIANT DESPITE THE DEMONIC ASSAULT OF THE SIXTH TRUMPET WIPING OUT ONE THIRD OF THE POPULATION INTRODUCTION: Charles Swindoll: When the angels of death are released, their goal will be to kill a third of humanity (Rev. 9:15). Verse...
by Paul Apple | Feb 3, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE FIFTH TRUMPET RELEASES FEARSOME DEMONIC LOCUSTS THAT TORMENT UNBELIEVERS FOR FIVE MONTHS INTRODUCTION: Grant Osborne: The two trumpet judgments of chapter 9 are three times as long as the first four trumpets (8:6–12) put together. Part of the reason is...
by Paul Apple | Feb 2, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE INITIAL FOUR TRUMPET JUDGMENTS IMPACT THE EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM WITH GLOBAL CATASTROPHES IN PREPARATION FOR THE FINAL THREE MORE SEVERE WOES INTRODUCTION: Charles Swindoll: The first four trumpets sound in rapid staccato blasts, taking up only six verses. In...
by Paul Apple | Feb 1, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: GOD’S ANGELS ANNOUNCE HIS WRATH IN RESPONSE TO THE IMPRECATORY PRAYERS OFFERED UP IN WORSHIP BY SUFFERING SAINTS INTRODUCTION: Grant Osborne: The content of the scroll is now unveiled in the trumpets and bowls. The trumpet judgments form the middle of the...
by Paul Apple | Jan 31, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: SOLEMN SILENCE IN HEAVEN PRECEDES THE UNLEASHING OF GOD’S WRATH AS THE DAY OF THE LORD BEGINS INTRODUCTION: “It’s a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Marvin Rosenthal: The objective of [Rosenthal’s book] is to demonstrate that the Day...
by Paul Apple | Jan 31, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: SAINTS FROM EVERY NATION, RAPTURED RIGHT BEFORE THE DAY OF THE LORD, SURROUND GOD’S THRONE IN HEAVEN IN WORSHIP AND PRAISE INTRODUCTION: Marvin Rosenthal: Nowhere in the considerable description of this group (Rev. 7:9-17) is it ever said they are martyred. ...
by Paul Apple | Jan 30, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE UNLEASHING OF GOD’S WRATH IS DELAYED UNTIL 144,000 FROM THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL CAN BE SEALED TO GUARANTEE THEIR PROTECTION INTRODUCTION: Marvin Rosenthal: Sealing has two basic concepts associated with it. In the Roman world, things were sealed to...
by Paul Apple | Jan 29, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE BREAKING OF THE SIXTH SEAL DISPLAYS THE TRANSFORMATIVE COSMIC SIGNS THAT SIGNAL THE SECOND COMING AND GOD’S WRATH INTRODUCTION: Marvin Rosenthal: Timing of the Rapture and the Day of the Lord Cosmic disturbance precedes the Day of the Lord. And that...
by Paul Apple | Jan 27, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: END TIME MARTYRS MUST PATIENTLY WAIT TO SEE THE JUDGING AND AVENGING WRATH OF GOD POURED OUT IN THE DAY OF THE LORD INTRODUCTION: Gordon Fee: While the preceding four seals have both similar structure and similar content, this seal and the next have only a...
by Paul Apple | Jan 26, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: JESUS CHRIST BREAKS THE FIRST FOUR SEALS OF THE SCROLL — UNLEASHING THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF COUNTERFEIT CONQUEST, WAR, FAMINE AND DEATH AS THE BEGINNING OF BIRTH PANGS IN THE END TIMES INTRODUCTION: Marvin Rosenthal: [The argument of the...
by Paul Apple | Jan 24, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: ALL OF CREATION UNITES TO WORSHIP THE ENTHRONED GOD AND THE LAMB WHO IS WORTHY TO EXECUTE THE END TIMES KINGDOM AGENDA INTRODUCTION: Buist Fanning: The words “and I saw” make the transition to the fourth phase of John’s vision, where praise to the Lamb and...
by Paul Apple | Jan 23, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE SLAIN LAMB RECEIVES WORSHIP AND PRAISE FOR BEING WORTHY TO OPEN THE SCROLL OF END TIME REDEMPTIVE HISTORY INTRODUCTION: Grant Osborne: The third καὶ εἶδον (kai eidon, then I saw) after 5:1, 2 leads into the centerpiece of the whole chapter. Because 5:5...
by Paul Apple | Jan 21, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: ONLY JESUS IN HIS MESSIANIC ROLE AS VICTORIOUS KING CAN BE JUDGED WORTHY TO REVEAL THE DIVINE SECRETS OF END TIME JUDGMENTS AND ULTIMATE REDEMPTION INTRODUCTION: Van Parunak: The chapter has four sections, each introduced by καὶ εἶδον G1492 (translated...
by Paul Apple | Jan 19, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE VISION OF GOD ENTHRONED IN HEAVEN CALLS FORTH THE HYMN OF CREATION FROM HIS WORSHIPING ATTENDANTS IN PREPARATION FOR JUDGMENT INTRODUCTION: Buist Fanning: The phrases that introduce this passage, “after these things I looked” (4:1) and “I came to be in...
by Paul Apple | Jan 17, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: NOMINAL CHRISTIANITY WITH ITS SELF-RELIANCE DESERVES CHRIST’S CRITICISM AS REPULSIVE INTRODUCTION: GotQuestions.org: What is nominal Christianity? Outside of arcane discussions in medieval philosophy, nominalism is the possession of a baseless name, title,...
by Paul Apple | Jan 16, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITHFULNESS (DESPITE NOT BEING OUTWARDLY IMPRESSIVE), THE CHURCH AT PHILADELPHIA IS PROMISED SPECIAL PROTECTION FROM THE GREAT TRIBULATION INTRODUCTION: Buist Fanning: Jesus commends the church in Philadelphia for fidelity despite weakness,...
by Paul Apple | Jan 14, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: SPIRITUAL LETHARGY CALLS FOR REVIVAL — FOR THE BELIEVING REMNANT TO WAKE UP AND STRENGTHEN WHAT REMAINS INTRODUCTION: Grant Osborne: One would hope that there are few churches like Sardis today, but there are many. Lack of spiritual vigilance in a...
by Paul Apple | Jan 13, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: FALSE PROPHETS SEDUCE THE SAINTS TO IDOLATROUS COMPROMISE BUT THE CHURCH MUST PERSEVERE IN FAITH, LOVE AND GOOD WORKS INTRODUCTION: William Barclay: What, then, was the problem in Thyatira? We know less about Thyatira than about any other of the seven cities...
