The New Covenant, Part 3

In an article, “All of America Must Be a Hard Target to Prevent Mass Shootings,” James Pinkerton wrote: Reacting to an earlier school shooting, former Los Angeles police officer J. Warner Wallace identified four driving causes: “an increase in social media use”; “an...

The Book of Life, Part 3

The beast was permitted to go to war against the saints and conquer them. He was given ruling authority over every tribe, people,1 language, and nation, and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast,2 everyone whose3 name4 has not been written since the...

The Book of Life, Part 2

To the angel of the church in Sardis write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who holds the seven1 spirits of God and the seven stars: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a reputation2 (ὄνομα) that you are alive, but in reality you are dead.3...

The Book of Life, Part 1

If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.1 This verse follows the one I quoted in another essay: Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.2 This is...

The New Covenant, Part 1

Then [Jesus] took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you.  Do this in remembrance of me.”[1]  The table below compares what He said next from four sources. NET Parallel Greek, NA28, Stephanus...