J. Bramhall
“…And others underwent trial of mockings and scourgings…”
(Hebrews 11:36)
I. The Last Days (the Present Time)
“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).
There is a mounting opposition against the things of God!
“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son” (1 John 2:22).
II. The Antichrist, Tribulation, and Our Hope
Revelation 13:11-18
- 6 = the number of man
- 666 = a triple, a complete apex of man’s supreme effort to go on without God = manifest by the man of sin in those closing days who will oppose God
Matthew 24:15, 21-22
Hebrews 11:1-2; 38-40
“Now faith is the substance (i.e., the substantiating) of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report…(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.”
Faith is obedience to the Word of God.
“God said it. I believe it. That settles it. And you wait!”