by Paul Apple | Feb 24, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THREE FUNERAL DIRGES ARE SUNG BY THE KINGS, MERCHANTS AND MARINERS OVER THE RAPID AND COMPLETE DEMISE OF THE GREAT HARLOT CITY BABYLON AND HER COMMERCIAL SYSTEM INTRODUCTION: Daniel Akin: Whatever we hate will also reveal what we truly love. The earth...
by Paul Apple | Feb 24, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE CERTAINTY OF THE FALL OF BABYLON DEMANDS MORAL SEPARATION AND DISPLAYS THE APPROPRIATENESS OF JUDICIAL RECOMPENSE INTRODUCTION: Daniel Akin: In this chapter we observe the world weeping over the death of a prostitute. However, this prostitute was using...
by Paul Apple | Feb 22, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: APOSTATE, MAN-MADE RELIGION ATTEMPTS TO UNIFY THE WORLD UNDER THE ANTICHRIST VIA SEDUCTIVE IDOLATRY AND IMMORALITY BUT SELF-IMPLODES UNDER GOD’S APPOINTED JUDGMENT INTRODUCTION: Buist Fanning: The phrase “he carried me away in the Spirit” in 17:3 (cf. 21:10)...
by Paul Apple | Feb 20, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE FINAL OUTPOURING OF GOD’S FURY UNLEASHES UNPRECEDENTED CATASTROPHIC ATMOSPHERIC PLAGUES (ENORMOUS EARTHQUAKE AND HUGE HAIL) ON DEFIANT BABYLON AND THE GENTILE NATIONS INTRODUCTION: John Walvoord: With both the seal and the trumpet judgments, there was...
by Paul Apple | Feb 19, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE BOWL JUDGMENTS INCREASE IN INTENSITY AS DARKNESS NOW AFFLICTS THE BEAST AND HIS KINGDOM AND PREPARATION BEGINS FOR ARMAGEDDON INTRODUCTION: Brad Mills: Although judgment is a dirty word in our culture, it is biblical. The holiness of God demands his...
by Paul Apple | Feb 18, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE FINAL BOWL JUDGMENTS WILL BE WORSE THAN ANYTHING WE CAN IMAGINE AS GOD POURS OUT HIS WRATH ON DEFIANT HUMANITY AND VINDICATES HIS HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS INTRODUCTION: Buist Fanning: After a very brief introduction (v. 1) the seven angels pour out...
by Paul Apple | Feb 16, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE OUTPOURING OF THE SEVEN BOWLS OF FINAL DIVINE WRATH WILL VINDICATE GOD’S HOLINESS, RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE AS CELEBRATED BY THE SONG OF THE MARTYRS INTRODUCTION: Grant Osborne: There are three parts to this vision with an ABA pattern (each with the...
by Paul Apple | Feb 15, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE HOUR OF GOD’S FINAL WRATH HAS ARRIVED — THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST WILL BE JUDGED WITH ETERNAL FIRE AND BRIMSTONE INTRODUCTION: Daniel Akin: Beginning with verse 6, we are introduced to six angelic messengers who appear in the remainder of the...
by Paul Apple | Feb 14, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: IN A PREVIEW OF VICTORY, THE LAMB STANDS ON MT. ZION WITH THE TRIUMPHANT 144,000 WHO ARE LEARNING A NEW SONG OF PRAISE INTRODUCTION: Buist Fanning: Structure: The chapter clearly falls into three sections (vv. 1–5; 6–13; 14–20), with each section introduced...
by Paul Apple | Feb 13, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE FALSE PROPHET USES DECEPTION AND COUNTERFEIT SIGN MIRACLES TO ENFORCE RELIGIOUS LOYALTY (SEALED BY THE MARK OF THE BEAST) FOR THE WORSHIP AND DOMINION OF THE ANTICHRIST INTRODUCTION: Daniel Akin: Main Idea: Satan sends false prophets to deceive and...
by Paul Apple | Feb 12, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE EMPOWERED BY SATAN TO BLASPHEME GOD AND WAGE WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS IN SEEKING WORLDWIDE WORSHIP AND DOMINION INTRODUCTION: Marvin Rosenthal: According to the Word of God, the Antichrist is a man who lived before. He ruled one of the...
by Paul Apple | Feb 10, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: PROVIDENTIAL PROTECTION SPARES PERSECUTED ISRAEL FROM HER ENRAGED ATTACKER INTRODUCTION: “From the river to the sea” – the chant of the goal of exterminating Israel still resonates today in the Middle East. But God continues to demonstrate His faithfulness...
by Paul Apple | Feb 10, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: MICHAEL DEFEATS SATAN AND CASTS HIM DOWN TO EARTH = THE IMPETUS FOR HIS FINAL WRATH – RESULTING IN JOY IN HEAVEN AND TERROR ON EARTH INTRODUCTION: Marvin Rosenthal: Revelation 12 describes a war that occurs in heaven. The time for that conflict can be...
by Paul Apple | Feb 8, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: GOD HAS ALWAYS PROTECTED THE SEED OF THE WOMAN (THE JEWISH BORN MESSIAH-KING) FROM SATAN’S SAVAGE ATTACKS INTRODUCTION: Buist Fanning: The passage falls into three sections that symbolically and elliptically tell the story of Satan’s efforts to thwart God’s...
by Paul Apple | Feb 7, 2024 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: WE SHOULD REJOICE NOW IN THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY OF THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF CHRIST’S EVERLASTING KINGDOM INTRODUCTION: Buist Fanning: With the trumpet blast from the seventh angel (v. 15a) the series of trumpets that began in 8:2–7 is completed. But just as...
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...
