A Christmas Wedding

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A Christmas Wedding

December 8, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 19:6–9

Every worship service between now and Jesus' return is like an engagement party. All the guests come. Everyone anticipates the wedding that will be. So confident are we that the groom will keep his pledge, that we dance with abandon. We lift up our voices in joy. We let our hearts swell for the wedding day that will be here soon, oh, so very soon.

More from Behind the Curtain: The Book of Revelation

Warned to Flee from the Wrath

December 1, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 20:4–5, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 20:15, Revelation 20:1–2

No matter how much theology I read, I cannot scrub out the clear warning in passages like this one from Revelation. There is a judgment. There will be a lake of fire. No can survive it on his own merits. Jesus, however, has made a way. Will we answer his call and rely on him alone?

In a Single Hour, You Fell

November 24, 2024 • Gerrit Dawson • Revelation 18:1–10

Where Is the Hope

Darin Travis • Revelation 16:4–16

God’s wrath is warranted and just in its execution. The first angel takes up his bowl, walks over to the earth, and pours it out. The second angel follows, goes over the waters, pours out God’s wrath and the sequence is repeated through the third, fourth… There is a cadence to the unleashing. God’s wrath is poured out over time, it is not a tyrannical unleashing and explosion of rage. God will not be mocked, he will execute judgment in an appropriate proportion, and he will pour out his wrath as a function of his holiness and love. God alone is fit to determine what sentencing is just and how punishment should be delivered. His wrath is just, and the battle is warranted.