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The End Is Near

Revelation Bible Study, Day 21 Today’s passage: Revelation 10 Focus verse: “There will be no more delay!” (Revelation 10:6) John’s vision takes a bit of a diversion before the seventh and final trumpet. After the sixth trumpet blast, we’d expect people to repent of their wrongdoing. They don’t. They persist in their sinful behavior. At this […]

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Some Still Will Not Repent

Revelation Bible Study, Day 20 Today’s passage: Revelation 9 Focus verse: The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands. (Revelation 9:20) After the opening of the scroll’s seventh and final seal, seven angels receive seven trumpets. The first four have already blown their […]

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Seven Trumpets and Three Woes

Revelation Bible Study, Day 19 Today’s passage: Revelation 8:6–13 Focus verse: I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!” (Revelation 8:13) With the seventh seal broken […]

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Silence from the Seventh Seal

Revelation Bible Study, Day 18 Today’s passage: Revelation 8:1–5  Focus verse: When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. (Revelation 8:1) Finally, Jesus breaks the seventh and final seal of Father God’s scroll. At the opening of each of the first six seals, something immediately happened in John’s […]

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Breaking the Seven Seals

Revelation Bible Study, Day 14 Today’s passage: Revelation 6 Focus verse: I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. (Revelation 6:1) Jesus has just been declared worthy to open God’s scroll, that is, to access the words on the sealed document. One by one, Jesus will break each of the seven seals […]

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Who Else Is Worthy?

Revelation Bible Study, Day 13 Today’s passage: Revelation 5 Focus verse: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain.” (Revelation 5:9) Our scene in heaven continues to unfold: the four living creatures have declared God holy, and the twenty-four elders have laid their crowns at the feet […]

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Sealed Scrolls in the Bible

Jesus Opens the Scroll In Isaiah’s prophecy, there’s a reference to words in a scroll. But no one can read the contents because the scroll is sealed. Later, God tells Daniel to take the words of his prophecy and seal it in a scroll until the end of time. In Revelation, God gives John a […]