The first major covenant God made with man can be seen in Gen. 3:15, where God came in after the fall of man and preached the gospel by promising that the seed of the woman will bruise the head of the serpent. Instead of rebuking Adam and Eve for what they did, God preached the […]
The Promise of the Seed of the Woman destroying Satan’s Head: Christ and His Overcomers
Our God is a covenanting God, and we are His covenanted people. Throughout the Bible we see God making covenants with His people; His covenants reveal His desire toward man. The Bible is a book of the revelation of God’s desire toward man. God expresses His desire toward man in a covenant as a way […]
The Church as the Testimony of Jesus is the Firstfruits and the Harvest in Rev. 14
In the book of Revelation we see the consummation of all that God has been doing throughout the ages, and in it we see a revelation of Jesus Christ (the Word of God) and the church (the testimony of Jesus). The church as the testimony of Jesus is first revealed as being the seven golden […]
May we be the firstfruits, those who are for God’s satisfaction and enjoyment
I was recently reading and enjoying this portion from the Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 182: The one hundred forty-four thousand living overcomers, the firstfruit of God’s crop, will be raptured to mount Zion in the heavens for God and Christ’s fresh enjoyment. Here we see the difference between the man-child in Revelation 12 […]