Land Promises Fulfilled In The “First Resurrection”

  The message of Christ’s return to dwell with man is the keynote of all Messianic prophecy.  In the beginning, man dwelt with God.  Yet on account of sin, God left His throne in Eden to take up His abode in the heavenlies.  In the years succeeding man’s exile from Eden, the wickedness of the world became so great, that…

Power Over The Nations

  One of the promises which Jesus Christ extends to the church is the right of governing the nations. This is a distinctly Jewish privilege, yet, as believers are grafted into Israel (Romans 11) and through grace partake of their covenantal blessings (Galatians 3: 29), saved Gentiles are included in the number of those who shall “reign with Christ.”   In…

The “Thrones” of Revelation & Daniel

  Most students of Scripture consider the judicial scene of Revelation 4 & 5 a spiritual event which was fulfilled at the Lord’s ascension in A.D. 30. What they fail to realize, however, is that the scene described therein takes place shortly before the Lord’s return, and is closely related to another piece of Apocalyptic imagery described in…

Charles Spurgeon- The Saints Will Reign On Earth

(from “The First Resurrection“) “THE book of Revelation needs another expounder besides those who have loaded our shelves until they groan, for they have generally made confusion worse confounded.  Their expositions have been rather “an obvelation” than a revelation; they have rather darkened counsel by words without knowledge, than made the dark things plain.  I…