The phrase 'the great tribulation' is quite intriguing. It sounds so terrible, so nasty that you would do anything within your power to avoid being caught up in that. Reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition, or torture at Guantanamo bay, except way worse, more systematised and deliberate. It...
This article is for those who consider we are/might be in the millennium now. Considering the millennium is really only mentioned once in the Bible, in Revelation 20, it takes up an inordinate amount of the thoughts and time of believers today. So, here is to...
In the book of Revelation, filled with amazing apocalyptic imagery, we notice that it will happen according to the words of Jesus… ‘soon.’ But it was written two thousand years ago. So does it soon back then, or soon now? What in...
In the second Back to the Future movie by Steven Spielberg, set in 1985, the protagonist (Marty) travels into the future to the year 2015. It's interesting to see how people in 1985 envisaged the future in 2015 - just 30 years ahead of them. They...
There seems to be a trend, or a tendency in human nature to expect, desire or just more easily believe negative things. This is true of our own lives. For example, if a doctor tells a patient they have cancer and six months to live,...
If you do a search for 'end times' in your Bible (using biblegateway.com) you won't find that phrase in the text anywhere. You might see it a few times in the chapter titles that translators add, such as for Daniel 12 and Matthew 24. But...
There is a clear and simple way to understand the number 666 in the Bible. It does however take some background to explain. In English we have separate symbols for our numbers. So 1 = one, and 2 = two and so on. But in Greek...
The book of Revelation almost didn't make it into the Bible. Back then not everyone agreed about what it meant or how useful it was. Today, it's place in the Bible is less of an issue, but we are still coming to the place of...
The book of Revelation is apocalyptic - full of symbols - and at times hard to understand. But not all of it. The part of the book of Revelation which is written in plain language is actually the component where John is told to write...
People reading current affairs can easily be tempted to ask themselves if we are not in the end of days. This week (June 2025) with Israel destroying the Iranian nuclear facilities at Isfahan, and killing 250 people in the process has prompted a fresh round...
