The Third Angel’s Message: Part 1

The challenges of this text become less if we keep in mind the pattern of demonic action ("the dragon acts") and divine reaction ("God reacts")—...
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The Second Angel’s Message: Part 2

The message of the second angel shows that Babylon encompasses a religious-political entity, an economic-political entity, and a cosmic reality—...
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The Second Angel’s Message: Part 1

Babylon must not be reduced to a simple code or steno-symbol for Rome since John uses the name "Babylon" to evoke a whole range of scriptural meaning...
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The First Angel’s Message: Part 3

The notion of judicial review, or "investigative judgment," as it is called in Adventist theology, misses the Johannine tenor of krisis, and it falls...
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Revelation 14:6–12 and the Case for...

I believe the writer understood his message and expected his readers to do so. We should read it through their experience and understanding in around...
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The First Angel’s Message: Part 2

Psalm 96 is the most likely background text for the first angel’s message of resounding affirmation in the book of Revelation.
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The First Angel’s Message: Part 1

The messages of the three angels in Revelation 14 are not proclaimed in a vacuum. Crucially, the first angel’s mission must be understood within the...
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The Second Rule of Revelation: Pay...

Like we need other chapters in the book itself, we also need Isaiah to understand the book of Revelation—Sabbath school commentary for discussion on...
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The First Rule of Revelation: Be a Re-...

To be a re-reader is prudent advice for reading in general, but especially for Revelation—Sabbath school commentary for discussion on April 8, 2023....
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Adventist Identity and the Three Angels...

Revelation has many clues that the author sensed his book could be the last one in what is now our Bible—Sabbath school commentary for discussion on...
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