In the four Gospels and the book of Acts we have been reading objective reports about the life of our Lord Jesus Christ and reports of the activity of the gospel in the first century. Now, we turn our attention to a series of letters written by the Apostle Paul. A letter is different from a report. A letter is a very intimate and warm expression from one heart to another. In those days, letters were written on thick paper [...]
This course, the eleventh in the Journey through the Bible Series, covers the following Epistles and their key biblical teachings: Hebrews, James, 1 & 2 Peter, 1, 2 & 3 John and Jude. The Epistle of Hebrews is written to a group of Hebrew Christians who were in the midst of terrible persecution. Since most of the original eyewitnesses had long since died, the author was writing to this second-generation group, trying to show them the superiority of the Christian [...]
The Book of Revelation, the final book in our Journey through the Bible, is the summing up of the whole of God’s dealings with mankind, and with the devil. In this one book the Holy Spirit gave its author, the apostle John, the sweeping purpose of God from its beginning to its end to completely and eternally redeem mankind, whom the devil had stolen from God, and through His Son, Jesus Christ, the restoration of mankind to everything God [...]
