My Time With The Guys

Hi everyone! I spent the afternoon preparing for my teaching time at men's group. If you're interested in taking a peek, here are the point form notes that I'll be speaking from. If you are a guy and you would like to come,I will be speaking for the last Thursday in January and the first Thursday in February. This should give you enough ammunition if you want to challenge me.

If this is a waste of your time, just let me know. I'll make sure that I don't post things like this in the future. God bless! Enjoy our Canadian winter!

Revelation 11:19  13:10

Revelation 11:19 – God’s Temple Opened
Perspective?

Revelation 12:1 – 6 The Woman, her ‘Child’ and the Dragon

Vs 1 – Woman – Israel
Sun, Moon – Genesis 37:9
12 Stars – Sons of Jacob, 12 Tribes
Not Mary – Salvation is from the Jews, John 4:22

Vs 3 Dragon – devil (slanderer) & Satan (adversary)
The vision in verse 4?
What did these events look like from our perspective?

Q – Why does life on earth look different when we’re looking through God’s vantage point?

Vs 5 The male Child – One who is to rule
Snatched away – the ascension

Q - What importance would this passage have in John’s day? Our day? For futurists?

Revelation 12:7-17 Implications of the Man Child

Q – What did Christ’s birth and ascension accomplish?
Satan and angels defeated
No longer any place for the devil and his followers in heaven
The promise of Genesis 3:15 fulfilled

Vs 12 – Life after Satan’s defeat
John 12:31, 14:30, 16:11 prince of this world

Why isn’t it a compliment to be called ‘worldly’?

The Context for life on earth in the AD
Satan’s last stand
Entrenched on this ‘tiny dot’ (illustrate?)
Spirit of air? Ephesians 2:2
War with Woman & the rest of her offspring
Holocaust, Rome, persecution today?

Revelation 13:1-10 The Beast of the Sea
The powers that be?

Characteristics of ‘The Beast’
Authority vs 1
Blasphemous vs 1,5,6
Qualities of a bear, lion, leopard vs 2
Receives power and throne from Satan vs 2
Mortally wounded, yet lives vs 3
Wages war against the saints vs 7
Worshipped by the people of the ‘world’ vs 8

Q – What would people in John’s day call the beast?

Can ideology be a beast?

What do you think of the following?

“Only capitalism can save us.”
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
Is Communism dead? Fascism?

Q - How is the cause of Christ really doing under Western Democracy?

One world government?

Q-What if Capitalism, Fascism, Democracy, Communism and Tribalism are all different forms of the same beast? (different forms of the world system)

Are any of them really compatible with Christ?

Vs. 9 – If anyone has an ear....