By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League June 16, 2023 The False Prophet, the Second Beast, rises out of the earth and has two horns like a lamb but speaks like a Dragon. He performs great signs and wonders, such as making fire come down from heaven. He uses these abilities to deceive the world […]
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Revelation Chapter 9: Four Unchained Demons, a Demonically Driven Army, and the Unrepentant
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 3, 2023 In The Bruised Reed, Richard Sibbes asks, “Can we think that he that threw the angels out of heaven will suffer dust and worms’ meat to run a contrary course, and to continue always so?” Surely not. The Lord is full of grace, mercy, and […]
Revelation Chapter 8: Silence in Heaven?
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 3, 2023 Revelation chapters 6-19 describe the Tribulation period during the end times. After the Church is taken out of the world in what might be called the first phase of Christ’s return, the Rapture, the time of God’s wrath, emerges in three waves of seven: seven […]
Revelation Chapter 6: The Rider on the Blood-Red Horse Takes Away Peace
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 9, 2022 According to a recent Pew Research Survey, in the U.S., 39 percent of people believe “we are living in the end times.” Most people in America, however, 58 percent, say that they don’t think these are the world’s last days. However, anyone with even a […]
Revelation Chapter 4: The Rapture Question
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 23, 2022 C. S. Lewis wrote, “The doctrine of the second coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives, Donne’s question, ‘What if this present were the world’s last […]
Revelation Chapter 3: The Church that Was Neither Cold nor Hot, But Lukewarm
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 16, 2022 Jesus’ final letter to the seven churches of Revelation is to the church in Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22). The city’s name means “the rights of the people.” It is good to remember there is a message in each of these letters for every church of every […]