Hating sin and falsehood (Revelation 2:6)
Having warned the church at Ephesus of their lampstand being removed if they don't repent, Jesus then says, Yet this you have: you hate...
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Ed Romero
- Jan 30
- 3 min
How to grow in love and keep your church (Revelation 2:5)
Jesus has just said to the church at Ephesus that one thing He has against them is that they abandoned the love they had at first. Then,...
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Ed Romero
- Jan 27
- 3 min
Abandoning love for Christ (Revelation 2:4)
Christ's love for us never changes. But sadly, our love for Him does. We know this. We can think back to when we were first saved and...
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Ed Romero
- Jan 24
- 2 min
Enduring patiently (Revelation 2:3)
Christians will have trouble in this world. Jesus guaranteed as much. And not only did He guarantee it, but He also endured it Himself....
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Ed Romero
- Jan 23
- 3 min
Jesus sees the good (Revelation 1:19-2:2)
People often think of Revelation 2-3 as the chapters where Jesus lambasts the seven churches. Certainly, He does have rebukes for them,...
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Ed Romero
- Jan 17
- 2 min
The living one (Revelation 1:18)
Your eternal life depends entirely on your relationship with Jesus Christ. John has just first seen Jesus in a vision and fell over as if...
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Ed Romero
- Jan 12
- 2 min
The comforting Christ (Revelation 1:17)
In the last post, we saw that Jesus is the glorious Christ. We now see that He is also the comforting Christ. Having seen Jesus, John...
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Ed Romero
- Jan 10
- 3 min
The Glorious Christ (Revelation 1:12-16)
After John heard the loud voice commanding him to write down what he saw, we read, 12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to...
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Ed Romero
- Jan 3
- 2 min
Christ is the head of the church (Revelation 1:10-11)
John writes in Revelation 1:10, I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet The phrase "in...
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Ed Romero
- Dec 31, 2022
- 2 min
A life of patient endurance (Revelation 1:9)
The Christian life is not meant to be an easy one. John writes in Revelation 1:9, I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation...
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Ed Romero
- Dec 30, 2022
- 2 min
The eternality of our God (Revelation 1:8)
Our God is eternal. Among many places in Scripture, we see this in Revelation 1:8, where John writes, “I am the Alpha and the Omega,”...
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Ed Romero
- Dec 28, 2022
- 2 min
Christ will one day relieve us (Revelation 1:7)
The battle rages on, dear Christians. But take heart. Christ will deliver us. After the doxology in the previous verse, wherein He calls...
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Ed Romero
- Dec 27, 2022
- 2 min
All glory be to Christ (Revelation 1:5b-6)
John writes in Revelation 1:5b-6, To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his...
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Ed Romero
- Dec 27, 2022
- 2 min
Christ the faithful and glorious (Revelation 1:5a)
After having just blessed his audience with grace and peace from God the Father and the Holy Spirit (called here "the seven spirits"),...
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Ed Romero
- Dec 23, 2022
- 2 min
Grace and peace from God (Revelation 1:4)
After a brief prologue, the author of Revelation, John, starts to address the seven churches for whom Christ gave him messages. He...
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Ed Romero
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
The blessing of revelation (Revelation 1:3)
As John continues the introduction to this apocalypse (a genre of writing), he writes, Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of...
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Ed Romero
- Dec 20, 2022
- 2 min
Say what you see (Revelation 1:2)
When God shows us something, we have an obligation and the privilege to share it with others. This is exactly what we see happening in...
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Ed Romero
- Dec 19, 2022
- 2 min
A revelation from God to us (Revelation 1:1)
The book of Revelation opens with these words: The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that...
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Ed Romero
- Jun 29, 2022
- 2 min
A God who is slow to anger
Our God is slow to anger, and for that we should be very grateful. The psalmist compares God to ruthless men who seek after his life,...
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Ed Romero
- Jun 23, 2022
- 1 min
God cares about your suffering
God cares about your suffering. The Bible speaks plainly that God is in control of all of our suffering. Not only does He ordain...
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