Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Revelation 20:7-15), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… [7-10] From the beginning (Genesis 3), the devil has deceived humanity into joining his futile war against God. God has redeemed and won back people to his own side from the… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Revelation 20:1-6), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… [1-3] To this point in the narrative of Revelation, the devil had been allowed to “deceive the nations,” which means he was able to manipulate the pagan Romans and unbelieving Jews… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Revelation 18:21 – 19:9), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… [18:21-24] Babylon is Babel (Genesis 11), the “Gate of God”—the humanistic, utopian, united enterprise to attain divinity without God. Harlot Babylon (see 17:1-6) is God’s own people betraying their… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Revelation 15:5 – 16:21), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… [15:6-7] The seven angels look like Jesus with their golden sashes (see Rev. 1:13). They represent Jesus as they pour out their “seven golden bowls full of the wrath… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Revelation 14), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… [2-3] The martyrs, having arrived in God’s presence and upon seeing preparations to judge their persecutors, make music and sing. They “conquered” the pressures of the beast to abandon Christ (the… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Revelation 14), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… [1-5] The “144,000” represent an army of spiritually faithful witnesses (martyrs) to the Lamb who would follow him through death, to stand with him in his glory. This vision reveals to… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Revelation 13), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… In chapter 12 the dragon’s power over Christ’s people was broken. He still has power over unbelievers, and looks to attack the church obliquely, indirectly through them. His continuing strategy is… Read more »

Here are some questions based on last Sunday’s sermon text (Revelation 12), in case they’re helpful to you for personal growth or group discussion… [1-5] The “woman” represents the corporate people of God, like the “woman” in the Garden to whom God made the promise of the serpent-crushing offspring. Being “that ancient serpent” (v. 9),… Read more »