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 […]
Revelation: Lesson 9: The Seven Signs, Parts 2-3
August 11, 2012 by
After the Apostle John observed heavenly worship, he saw Jesus, represented as a wounded but victorious lamb, receive a scroll with seven seals. Revelation then moves into four successive visions of each seal that Jesus opens. Last week, we looked at the first seal, which depicted the cosmic battle between good and evil, between the […]
