May 24, 2023
Texts: 1 Corinthians 15:21-28; 50-57; 2 Peter 2:11-13 Days 75-77 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days. The voice from the throne announced, “Behold, I am making all things new” (Revelation 21:5). Ultimately and finally, God makes all things new through resurrection. Though Jesus was seemingly defeated by the powers in his death, God vindicated […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 30, 2014
[An audio version of this is available here.] Contemporary visitors to Palestine rarely, if ever, find the Jordan River imposing. It seems relatively shallow, not very wide, and quite calm. Wading across does not seem like much of a problem–except that it would take one from the modern state of Israel into the modern state […]
5 Comments | Biblical Texts | Tagged: Baptism, Heaven, Inheritance, Jordan, Jordan River, Joshua, Joshua 3-4, Joshua 3:1-17, New Earth, New Heaven | Permalink
Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 11, 2012
Moses Lard, as Randall noted in a comment on my previous post, was a premillennialist. So, when did he think the earth would be renewed? Further, would the renewed earth be the eternal home of the saints or only one for 1000 years (as many contemporary premillennialists think)? Here is Lard’s answer. This is take […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 10, 2012
What does it mean for the creation to wait with earnest expectation for the revelation of the children of God in which it will be delivered from its own bondage of decay so as to experience the freedom of the redeemed and resurrected children of God? Romans 8:19-23 Moses Lard (1818-1880), the conservative editor of Lard’s Quarterly and the Apostolic Times, answered […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
September 12, 2008
There are many hermeneutical issues surrounding the Apocalypse, of course. And I will assume my own perspectives in this final installment on “Reverse the Curse.” One of my primary assumptions is the progressive cyclical undestanding of the seven seals, trumpets and bowls of wrath in the second vision (“in the Spirit,” 4:3) of Revelation (chapters 4-16). […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
August 21, 2008
“The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God” (Genesis 17:7-8). “[Yahweh] brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey” (Deuteronomy 26:9). When the […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks