Tag Archives: Book of Revelation

Revelation In Perspective

Posted on March 13, 2019 by John Valade

A current use of two very different scripture passages illustrate a point about what often happens when well-meaning people adopt scripture passages without studying the context. Something of a similar nature can happen with the book of Revelation. A favourite … Continue reading →

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The Eternal City

Posted on August 20, 2012 by John Valade

[Note: This post is based on an address to a local church that invited me as a guest speaker.] The first time I came before you we discussed how the first book of the Bible sets up the whole story … Continue reading →

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Shout! For He Has Given Us the City

Posted on October 3, 2011 by John Valade

The only thing we are told about Israel’s Feast of Trumpets is that it was to be a “memorial of blowing” (of trumpets). Later tradition assigned the ram’s horn (“shofar” in Hebrew) as the “trumpet of choice” for celebrating the … Continue reading →

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