[Revelation 17] We hear a great deal about women in our society today. Rightly so. I look back in history and understand the obsession with equality. Since the earliest times and over many centuries women have been treated appallingly – oppressed and abused. Although Eve was made for Adam as a wife and the other…
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307. The judgment of love
[Revelation 16] Our world defines love very specifically, even arrogantly as if anybody knows what it really means. The world around us would like to be all and everything of perfect love. It might be in a moment’s sexual pleasure – of course, that is why they say they “make love”. It might be in…
306. Worship in the smoke
[Revelation 15] Images of dreadful distress fill our television screens daily. The anguish and misery of the human and animal world are heartbreaking and depressing. Volunteers and relief workers from world organizations and individual countries are called in and called up to be the Hands of Jesus extended. We are the Church of Christ on…
305. The true Church counted
[ Revelation 14] 14 Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. 3 They sang as it were a…
304. The Beast and his mark
[Revelation 13] 13 Then (he)I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth…
303. A dragon and a baby
[Revelation 12] This chapter has often been described as the start of a whole new series of visions up until 15:4. The repetition of the words: I saw and Behold reveals seven sections of signs. Other parts of the book are also divided into sections of seven – the seals, trumpets and bowls. This chapter is a deeper dimension of the…
302. God knows exactly
[Revelation 11] Counting and measuring are the brushstrokes of the scientists and mathematicians to illustrate and colour the world into a comprehensible picture. I am in awe of the astrophysicists, the astronomers, the geologists, archaeologists and numerous other disciplines that count, name and number our universe. Our sciences are expressed in the results of the…
301. Eat it all
[Revelation 10] Our modern world is quite focused on eating. Food is culture, part of that which defines our everyday. Food and the art of dining are dominant cultural factors. Famine and hunger dominate parts of the world where the lack of food causes heartbreaking human catastrophes. Food is life. We need food so often…
300. The horse and its rider
[Revelation 9] All things God made are good. Creation is a wonder to be studied and appreciated every day. We, the children of Adam, have never stopped naming and labeling the wonders God made for us to sustain our life and enjoy. Our process of naming and categorizing is what we call science and it…
299. The sound of silence
[Revelation 8] We can pause for a moment and think of the harmony and melody in heaven – the sound of the heavenlies – in the unseen where we cannot experience it with human hearing. They are very pronounced and accompany the vision in every instance. John describes the voice of God like the sound…
Pebbles of Perpetuity 