Witness

Commissioned to Witness Everywhere - Acts 1:1 – 1:11 (commentary)

Luke starts by connecting Luke and Acts (vv. 1-2). At the close of Luke’s Gospel, the believers were in the temple praising God. Acts is the story of what came next. Luke tells what Jesus did and said in His human body; Acts tells what He did and said through His spiritual body, the church ...

Commissioned to Witness Everywhere - Acts 1:6 – 1:11 (commentary)

“Witness” is a key word in the book of Acts, and is used 29 times as either a verb or a noun. Instead of knowing the times or dates, the Apostles were to be Christ’s witnesses to the ends of the earth (v. 8). A witness is someone who tells what he has seen and h …

Snapshots of the Lord’s Life - John 1:1 – 1:9 (commentary)

The writers of the four Gospels give us brief snapshots of our Lord’s life on earth because no complete biography could ever be written (John 21:25). John, who presents Christ as the Son of God, begins his gospel in eternity past. He says that when time began, the Word (Christ) w …

Jesus’ Witnesses of his Diety - John 5:30 – 5:38 (commentary)

Our Lord knows what His opponents are thinking and so at the outset of His testimony, He informs them He knows they will not accept His testimony alone. The Old Testament law required two or three witnesses (Deut. 17:6) for a man to be found guilty. Thus the Scripture state …

Will any be saved during the tribulation? - Revelation 7:1 – 7:8 (commentary)

Chapter seven is a parenthesis. In this chapter there is a break between the sixth and seventh seals. This period of tribulation takes place after the church leaves the earth, after the church concludes its mission and is taken to be with the Lord. From our Scripture passage today I believe we will ...

The Two Witnesses - Revelation 11:1 – 11:14 (commentary)

When the Rapture of the Church takes place (which could happen at any time (I Cor. 15:52) Israel will build a temple in Jerusalem (vv. 1-2) which may be referred to as the Tribulation Temple...

A Promise to Regather The Unworthy - Isaiah 43:1 – 43:13 (commentary)

The Lord exhorts Israel not to fear (vv. 1-7) for their condition will show the world that He is truly the only God (vv 8-13). God had created and framed her and had redeemed her from bondage in Egypt and he will now bring her back home from Babylon in a new “Exodus. …

Jesus is the Light - John 1:1 – 1:14 (commentary)

John, who presents Christ as the Son of God, begins his gospel in eternity past. He says that when time began, the Word (Christ) was already in existence (v. 1). Having established the eternity of the Word, John then pro¬ceeds to give a witness about Jesus’s involvement in creation ...