John Mark Hicks

Jesus, through the Spirit, addresses the church in Ephesus through John’s literary work. The church is commended for their endurance and good works as well as their discernment with regard to false apostles and the Nicolaitans. However, though outwardly conforming to the way of Jesus, they had abandoned the orienting and grounding practice of love, […]

An English version is available here. Con demasiada frecuencia, la «escatología» (el estudio de los últimos tiempos) se limita a los debates milenaristas (posmilenio, premilenio pretribulacionista, premilenio mesotribulacionista, premilenio posttribulacionista, premilenio histórico, ¿amil?) y al destino eterno de los seres humanos (¿cielo o infierno?). Para algunos, estos debates se ignoran porque parecen relativamente irrelevantes (Dios […]

New Heaven and New Earth: Revelation 21:1-7 and 22:1-5 Imagine no pain, mourning, or death. It ain’t easy; I’ve tried. Imagine no chaos, brokenness, or struggle. Yeah, it ain’t easy; it sounds like fantasy. Sometimes the floods, both metaphorical and real, overwhelm us. Tornadoes, heavy rain, and lightning threaten us, and sometimes they destroy us. […]

Whether the text continues to describe Antiochus, or perhaps the Roman empire, or a future Antichrist, the fundamental point is clear: the people of God will face persecution and evil will increase, but God will act to redeem the people of God and the times of evil will end. The cosmic battle between good and […]

Daniel’s 70 Weeks (Daniel 9:24-27) is one of the most difficult texts in biblical prophecy. It understood in widely diverse ways through all of Jewish and Christian history. This calls for humility, discernment, and mutual respect. In this video lesson, I offer three different ways to understand the text: (1) this has already happened in […]

Daniel, terrified by and distraught over his vision of four beasts, seeks understanding and wants to know the meaning of his vision. An attendant to the throne of God gives him a brief overview in 7:17-18–four empires will use power for their own agenda, but the kingdom of God will put an end to those […]

Bobby Valentine and John Mark Hicks reflect on the majesty praise hymn of Psalm 8 in this video. The transcendent God has set a bulwark within the creation to silence his enemies, and humanity is a partner with God to subdue the chaos within the creation. Crowned with glory and honor, we are God’s representatives […]

This link downloads a paper I wrote in 2018 for the Stone-Campbell Conference at Johnson University in April, 2018. The title of the paper is: “God has not kept [the Jews] these many years for nothing”:[1] Alexander Campbell on Israel, the Church, and Eschatology The quote that heads the paper is: “The unbelieving Jews were […]

Hebrews 12:18-29 You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. (For they could not endure the order that was given, […]

Hay muchas cuestiones hermenéuticas en torno al Apocalipsis. Y asumiré mis propias perspectivas en esta última entrega sobre “Revertir la maldición”. Una de mis suposiciones principales es la comprensión cíclica progresiva de los siete sellos, trompetas y copas de ira en la segunda visión (“en el Espíritu”, 4:3) del Apocalipsis (capítulos 4-16). [La primera visión […]