Category Archives: Book of Revelation
Tolerating evil?
In the previous post I said a little bit about the church at Thyatira and their problem with church discipline (in that they didn’t do it). In this post I want to suggest a few ways that contemporary conservative evangelicals … Continue reading
Thyatira?
The letter to Thyatira scares me. The letters to the 7 churches are sober reading as it is. But looking at Thyatira with a student the other day was a disconcerting experience. It was too close for comfort. You see, … Continue reading
The book of revelation and ‘what we do in church’
“In addition, the close link in Revelation between the struggling churches in Asia Minor and the church triumphant around the throne of God in heaven assumes a correlation between heavenly and earthly worship.” Letham, The Holy Trinity, 46-47
Shining like the sun
Revelation’s opening vision of Jesus Christ in his glory tells us that his ‘face was like the sun shining in full strength’ (1:16). And this is in a book in which the sun, moon and stars keep getting put out … Continue reading
Elders and angels, heavenly and earthly
Yesterday I noticed something for the first time in Revelation. Now I’ve noticed it, it seems obvious. The representatives of the church down on earth are called angels in each of the letters to the 7 churches. Though ‘angels’ it … Continue reading
