There’s something to know about the interesting number, one thousand in the Bible. In the Koine Greek language the word used is χιλιάς (kilias) which is where we get the word ‘kilo’ in English, as used in kilometre (a thousand metres) or kilogram. (a thousand grams) And, in...
The Bible is full of language that sounds clear, but turns out to have another meaning. It’s straightforward once you know what the true meaning or meanings are, and we can recognize that the disciples were confused by this at times, but so often we...
Today as I write this, it is remembrance day. 104 years ago to the day, the guns stopped firing in World War 1, and nations laid down their weapons for peace. While the peace didn’t last and was temporary, it reminds us of a peace...
It turns out that the dating of Revelation has a HUGE impact on the potential interpretation of it, and the behaviour of its readers, and even entire countries. If you believe that Revelation was written before 70AD, then it was written before the destruction of the...
John chapter five contains an event where Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath and tells him to carry his matt and walk. In the minds of the Jewish leaders, this equated to working, a thing which was not supposed to be done on the...
I used to think that the rapture could not possibly happen until everyone had a chance to hear the gospel. This was based on two verses: Firstly Matthew 24:14 which states “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a...
When I was in ninth grade, a preacher in the Philippines had made the news predicting that the world was going to end the next day at around 11am. A bunch of my otherwise godless classmates were worried that it was all over. At the...
In a number of messages, John has referred to books that he has read. As a result of this, we frequently receive emails asking for a list of books that John recommends. This post creates an easy way to answer those questions by providing a...
The Apostle John’s Observation The apostle John writes very revealingly of a church leader called Diotrephes, in his third epistle (3 John 9-10). John said Diotrephes “loves to be first”. This is a telling piece of information. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 12:28 that in the church...
Fallen Apostles We come to possibly the saddest aspect of all. It is possible, and it has occurred, that a genuine apostle might fall from grace, into backsliding and sin, and become a false apostle. the principle also applies to prophets, teachers, elders and to every...
