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It’s often easier to imagine an unimaginable sci-fi thriller unfolding to the end of the age than an unrestrained, real-life evil. There are clearly sci-fi events detailed to occur at the end, but most of what we read in the Bible about the end-times is an unrestrained version of life as we know it. Somehow it is easier to conjure up an out-of-this-world ending rather than an ending rooted in this world.
Jesus compared the end of the age to the flood in Noah’s lifetime and the ...
Revelation 13 provides an overview of the end-time scenario hinted at throughout Scripture. In this chapter, the Apostle John shares a vision of a beast coming from the earth and a beast from the sea. It’s easy to get lost in the beast terminology, but the details are consistent with end-time prophecy elsewhere. The first beast, or beast from the sea, matches the details of the...