Punishment

Locusts from the Bottomless Pit - Revelation 9:1 – 9:12 (commentary)

The last three trumpet judgments are generally associated with the last three and one-half years of the seventieth week of Daniel. These will be the blackest, darkest days in human history. As we read this we must remember that the Christians have been raptured out of the world before this time.

Lamentations 4:14 – 4:22 (commentary)

Jerusalem had been so prosperous and protected that neither kings nor ordinary citizens anywhere could have dreamed that she could be over-run and conquered. Then why was she captured?One cause of Jerusalem’s siege and fall was the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her p …

God is in Control - Jeremiah 27:1 – 27:22 (commentary)

The events of chapter 27 took place early in the reign of Zedekiah (v. 1). Nebuchadnezzar had already invaded Judah once and had taken many captives. Jeremiah was commanded by God to wear a yoke, like those used to hitch a team of oxen together (v. 2), as a symbol of bondag …