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The Tribulation on Earth, Part 19: The Perpetual Uprisings of Satan IV (Rev. 13:9-18)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on September 6, 2023) As we have seen throughout Chapter 13, Satan continually causes wicked powers and rulers to rise to power over the course of church history. The two beasts that we read about operate in a similar way, deceiving and destroying God’s people at various times in history….

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The Tribulation on Earth, Part 18: The Perpetual Uprisings of Satan III (Rev. 13:9-18)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on September 6, 2023) As we continue in the Book of Revelation, we are still in Chapter 13 and looking at the perpetual uprisings of Satan. We have seen a “beast” that arose out of the sea; now we see a “beast” that rose out of the earth. This second…

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The Tribulation on Earth, Part 17: The Perpetual Uprisings of Satan II (Rev. 13:5-8)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on August 16, 2023) In the last sermon, Elder Buddy Abernathy began to preach to us about the ongoing battle between good and evil as set forth in Revelation Chapter 3. As we continue through this chapter, we see that the uprisings of Satan are a continuing cycle throughout history,…

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The Tribulation on Earth, Part 16: The Perpetual Uprisings of Satan I (Rev. 13:1-4)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on August 2, 2023) As we continue in the Book of Revelation, we come to a chapter that symbolically sets forth the ongoing battle between good and evil. In this chapter, we see the perpetual uprisings of Satan throughout history, primarily through world powers against the Lord and His people….

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The Tribulation On Earth, Part 15: The Spiritual Battle of the Crucifixion (Rev. 12:7-17)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on July 19, 2023) As we continue in our series on Revelation, we come to some verses that depict a “war in heaven.” Elder Buddy Abernathy shows us by Scripture that, in keeping with the figurative language of the Book, this is a spiritual depiction of what happened on the…

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The Tribulation On Earth, Part 14: The Church in the Wilderness (Rev. 12:1-6)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on July 16, 2023) In this portion of Scripture, Elder Buddy Abernathy shows us how the figurative language describes the first coming of Christ, and the general experience of His church while still here on earth. This “woman clothed with the sun”, who represents the the children of God left…

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The Tribulation on Earth, Part 13: The Seventh Trumpet (Rev. 11:15-19)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on July 5, 2023) Today we are returning to Elder Buddy Abernathy’s exposition on the Book of Revelation, which he has been preaching through for several months. We have just completed looking at the “interlude” between the blowing of the sixth and seventh trumpets, and today we begin to look…

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Revelation Series – An Interlude, Part 9: The Rise and Fall of Evil II (Rev. 11:1-14)

As we began to see in the first half of this message, there is a cycle throughout history of the rise and fall of evil. Revelation 17:8 prophesies this, and Chapter 11 illustrates it as well. The devil rises from time to time from the bottomless pit to torment God’s people, but then the Lord…

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Revelations Series – An Interlude, Part 8: The Rise and Fall of the Wicked I (Rev. 11:3-14)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on June 21, 2023) In today’s message, Elder Buddy Abernathy takes us first to Revelation 17:8, which gives a basic summary of the prophecy of the entirety of the Book of Revelation: “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition:and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they…

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Revelation Series – An Interlude, Part 7: The Measuring Rod of the Word of God (Rev. 11:1-2)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on June 7, 2023) As we continue in this interlude between the blowing of the sixth and seventh trumpets, we come to Chapter 11, where we read that John is given a “reed like unto a rod.” This reed is simply a measuring rod, which God tells John to use…

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Revelation Series – An Interlude, Part 6: The Little Book IV (Rev. 10:10-11)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on May 14, 2023) As we began to see yesterday, the “little book” in the hand of the angel (which is the word of God) is sweet to the taste, but bitter to the belly. Why is that? Elder Buddy Abernathy was beginning to show us why this must be…

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Revelation Series – An Interlude, Part 5: The Little Book III (Rev. 10:10-11)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on May 14, 2023) In the previous sermon, we began looking at the “little book” in the hand of the angel. This little book is the Bible, and the gospel message contained within it. In today’s message, we consider the statement that, when John “ate it up,” it was “sweet…