Preach the Word!

Chapter 8 presents the second of Daniel’s prophetic dreams, sharpening the focus and details upon the two kingdoms in the near future, along with one king who will arise out of the aftermath – someone so awful that he points the way to the future Antichrist. God could show Daniel these things, because God knows these things. Our God knows everything about the future, and He h...

Daniel 8, “Focusing on the Future”

Time travel is an evergreen topic in movies and popular culture. Movies ranging from The Avengers, to Back to the Future, to H.G. Well’s The Time Machine, dealt with going back/forth through time in attempts to affect the present. Of course, it is called “science fiction” for a reas...

Although some of the pictures (signs) in Revelation 12 are strange, the main idea is clear: God wins; the devil loses. Every attack made by the devil on the people God has chosen to protect, fails. The devil is a loser. How comforting it is to know that the God we worship is the God who holds us fact and protects us from the enemy!

Revelation 12, “The Devil is a Loser”

One of my guilty pleasures involves enjoying movies from the Rocky franchise. My bride (who does not enjoy them nearly as much as I do) often indulges me whenever we come across them on TV. There is something about them that just appeals to me: the training montages – Rocky being ever the underdog...

In the latter chapters of Daniel, the Bible provides several versions of prophetic ‘roadmaps’ helping us see the big picture of what God has in store for this world. Different kingdoms would rise and fall, and it would look worse before it got better. But when God’s kingdom came, it would be good…and it would never go away.