Studying Scripture with Pastor David Higa at CCEP
Expository teaching on Revelation
Episodes
April 20, 2024
Our Future Hope The New Jerusalem
Revelation 21:1-8
Revelation 21:1-8 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. [Rev 21:4]
Our future hope is the New Jerusalem, the Eternal State. It is where the tabernacle of God is with men, not in part but in the fullness of His glory.
Can you imagine? I cannot, an...
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April 13, 2024
The Great White Throne Judgment
Revelation 20:11-15
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away. And there was found no place for them. [Rev 20:11]
Like the seven seals of judgment that prepares for the Lords return [ref. Rev 19:11-16], there will be a final judgment [the Great White Throne Judgment] that prepares for a new heaven and a new earth [Rev 21:1].It is import...
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April 7, 2024
Rebellion in the Millennium
Revelation 20:5-10
Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth. [Rev 20:7-8]
This is difficult to understand! Is not Jesus ruling and reigning? Was not sin dealt with in the Tribulation? Isnt there going to be peace and justice and righteous rule?
Well, the answer is yes, yes, and yes. T...
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March 31, 2024
The Thousand Year Reign of Christ
Revelation 20:1-4
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. [Rev 20:1-2]
When Jesus returns [Rev 19:11-16] one of the first things that will happen is that Satan will be bound for a thousand years. Interestingly enoug...
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March 23, 2024
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS
Revelation 19:11-21
And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. [Rev 19:16]
It is this title, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS that puts the exclamation point on our Lords Return. He is Immanuel, God with us; He is our Prince of Peace, Wonderful Counselor, and Mighty God. He is the Lamb of God, the Root of David, and the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. He is th...
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March 17, 2024
Heavenly Hallelujahs
Revelation 19:1-10
After these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God! [Rev 19:1]
Here is yet another After these things in the book of Revelation. This one takes us [finally] to our Lords Return. There is, however, more to come. Three more chapters remain in Revelation. With Christs Return one might think...
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March 9, 2024
Babylon is Fallen
Revelation 18:1-24
After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen [Rev 18:1-2a]
After these things indicates that Chapter 18 is a later revelation than Chapter 17. Babylon is fallen comes after the fall of MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHE...
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March 2, 2024
The Great Harlot
Revelation 17:1-18
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters [Rev 17:1]
Chapter 17 begins a last parenthetical in Revelation. It is actually an addendum with the seven bowl judgments in Rev. 16 taking us to the end of the Tribulation. At the pouring out of the seventh bowl judgment [Rev 1...
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February 25, 2024
The Seven Final Plagues
Revelation 16:1-21
Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth. [Rev 16:1]
These seven final plagues before our Lords Return are described in Rev 16. There are similarities to previous judgments, and differences. Two great differences are their scope and speed. In the Seals and Trumpets judgments, there were pauses between t...
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February 17, 2024
A Great and Marvelous Sign
Revelation 15:1-8
Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete. [Rev 14:15]
the wrath of God is complete is described as a great and marvelous sign. This brings us to the end of a long parenthetical [Rev 10-14]. Revelation contains several parentheticals within the chronology of judgments leading to Christs Ret...
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February 10, 2024
The Harvest of Judgment
Revelation 14:14-20
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest is ripe. [Rev 14:15]
Our passage this morning describes the time of grace coming to an end. Mercy, after a long period of time [from Genesis 3:15 to Revelation 19] will finally come to an end. MacArthur writ...
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February 4, 2024
The Everlasting Gospel
Revelation 14:6-13
Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people. [Rev 14:6]
When we think of the gospel [literally good news] we think of the gospel of salvation or the gospel of grace. But in our passage this morning, the everlasting gospel is a gospel of judgment. The context of th...
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January 27, 2024
A Faithful and Blameless Remnant
Revelation 14:1-5
And in their mouth was found no deceit, for they are without fault before the throne of God. [Rev 14:5]
These are the 144,000 in Rev 7, 12,000 from every tribe of Israel, who are sold out for the Lord in the Tribulation. They are men; spiritually, morally, and physically pure, and God uses them in a way that is unique in all history.
Never before has there been such a large group o...
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January 20, 2024
The Beast from the Earth
Revelation 13:11-18
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. [Rev 13:11-12]
Here in this latter half of Rev 13 is the description of a second beast, the beast comi...
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January 13, 2024
The Beast from the Sea
Revelation 13:1-10
And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems, and on his heads were blasphemous names. [Rev 13:1 - NASB]
A daunting image indeed! This intimidating beast is none other than the antichrist [and his kingdom]. In the Gospels we read of the true King [Jesus Christ] and His Kingd...
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January 6, 2024
A War on Israel
Revelation 12:13-17
Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. [Rev 12:13]
Noted in our Revelation text from two weeks ago [Rev 12:1-6], the woman referred to in Rev 12 is Israel. John describes her as a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. [Rev 12:1]
The vision is so similar to ...
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December 30, 2023
Revelation 12:7-12
A War in Heaven
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. [Rev 12:7-8]
We usually think of heaven as a place of perfect peace and security. It is, in one sense. After all, it is the place where God dwells. But according to the Bible, heaven is also a place where Sa...
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December 23, 2023
The Woman, Child, and Dragon
Revelation 12:1-6
His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. [Rev 12:4]
The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon, it almost sounds like a C.S. Lewis novel. These are, however, three important personages of the Tribulation. Revelation 12-14 is another parenthetical, ...
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December 16, 2023
The Seventh Trumpet
Revelation 11:15-19
The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly. Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever! [Rev 11:14-15]
If this were a first reading of Revelation, one would think that the Return of Christ is at hand, just around the corn...
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December 9, 2023
The Temple and Two Witnesses
Revelation 11:1-14
But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. [Rev 10:2-3]
Revelation 11 continues a second parenthetical that began in Re...
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