The Great Fire of Rome, 64 AD Backdrop The Roman Empire enabled Christianity to spread without the effort needed in earlier centuries. The Empire’s unifying infrastructure aided the Gospel’s expansion of the Gospel: well-laid roads made travel easier, most people spoke Greek, and a mighty army kept the peace. An Empire runs on unity and […]
Church History, Lesson 6: Christianity becomes Illegal
August 25, 2017 by PastorRich
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Revelation, Lesson 11: The Seven Signs, Part 6
August 25, 2012 by PastorRich
After the Apostle John observed heavenly worship, he saw Jesus, represented as a wounded but victorious lamb, receive a double-sided scroll with seven seals. Revelation then moved into four successive visions of each seal as Jesus breaks each one. And we also see a fairly linear chronology. Seal 1: Mary gives birth to Jesus. Satan […]