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")—...
Read More
The message of the second angel shows that Babylon encompasses a religious-political entity, an economic-political entity, and a cosmic reality—...
Read More
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...
Read More
The Book of Revelation is a long letter that was not written to me. As long as I keep this in the back of mind, as I should when I’m reading any New...
Read More
In spite of itself, the Adventist Church is a political institution. Historically, Adventism has articulated its politics as driven by eschatology....
Read More
The notion of judicial review, or "investigative judgment," as it is called in Adventist theology, misses the Johannine tenor of krisis, and it falls...
Read More
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...
Read More
Examining S. S. Snow’s life and Ellen White’s first vision, during which she claimed that Snow’s date-setting midnight cry was divine “glorious light...
Read More
Every method of interpreting biblical prophecies has strengths and weaknesses. Here are 10 things about Seventh-day Adventist historicism that strike...
Read More