The Tabernacle Sermons

The reality of life is that everything changes and nothing is certain. But God never changes and His plan is certain. God reveals himself and his perfect plan in the Bible, so that we can place our trust in Him.

Satan is evil and powerful but is still under the authority of the Sovereign God. And although God is not the author of evil, He will use evil to judge evil, and thereby turn evil upon itself.

“How long?” is the question that has been ringing through the prayers of God’s people for thousands of years. In the opening of the seventh seal, we see God hallowing His name and judging the world in response to those prayers.

Revelation 7 is a very hopeful chapter as God reminds us that His redemption plan, Jesus, is still in motion; judgement is at hand but so is salvation. We see the 144,000 who receive the seal on their forehead, as well as those clothed in white, and read that “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” God is always able to reach His creation with Hi

Lambs by nature are gentle and harmless. But in Revelation, the lamb that was slain pours out wrath on a sinful world that has defiantly rejected His offers of forgiveness, grace, and salvation.

The world has been plagued by conquest, war, famine and death since the Fall of man. The last century alone was the bloodiest in human history. But the worst is yet to come, when God’s wrath against the sin of mankind is finally unleashed.

The seven seals represent a property deed in Jewish culture. John weeps with a desire to see the full redemption of humanity but knows this cannot happen if the scrolls are not opened. Enter Jesus, the slain Lamb full of power and knowledge, seated in front of the scroll at the right hand of God. At this, all those redeemed have no response but to worship Him.

Some of the greatest lies from Satan are about heaven. He wants us to believe it will be boring, so that we will grasp onto everything we can in the present, and not live for the glorious eternal future that is promised.

He who has an ear, let him hear” is the phrase repeated in Revelation after each individual church letter. It means that hearers ought to “listen-up” and pay close attention to God’s Word and examine our lives in that light.

Revelation chapter two brings the first four of the seven letters written to real churches made up of real people. These letters bring both correction and encouragement for the church then and us today.