Sermons on the Book of Revelation: The Seven Bowls

Peter Barnes | Revelation 15, 16

SERMON  NOTES
The  Seven  Bowls
(Revelation  15-16)

– these  seven  plagues  of  warning  are  ‘God’s  megaphone’  (C.  S.  Lewis)

1. God’s  people  are  redeemed.

– 15:1-4;  one  with  the  song  of  Moses  in  Exodus  15,  which  is  a  song  of  redemption

2. History  is 

Sermons on the Book of Revelation: Beware the Beasts

Peter Barnes | Revelation 13, 14

SERMON  NOTES
Beware  the  Beasts
(Revelation  13-14)

1. The  political  beast  from  the  sea.

– 13:1-10;  he  resembles  a  composite  beast  from  Daniel  7

– compare  13:3  and  5:6;  this  goes  back  to  Gen.3:15

– David  Chilton  says  all  this  only  refers  to  God’s  …

Sermons on the Book of Revelation: Christ and the Dragon, or What is History?

Peter Barnes | Revelation 12

SERMON  NOTES
Christ  and  the  Dragon
(Revelation  12)

– this  is  panoramic  and  a  recapitulation

1. Christ’s  victory  over  Satan  on  earth.

– 12:1-6;  refers  firstly  to  Matt.2:13-18

– John 8:44,  but  Psalm  2:9  tells  of  Christ’s  guaranteed  victory;  note  1 John 3:8

2. Christ’s 

THE TRUTH, RELATIVELY SPEAKING

Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
November 2007
Rev Dr Peter Barnes

In The Closing of the American Mind, published in 1987, Allan Bloom lamented that virtually all American college students believe that there is no absolute truth for all truth is relative. He goes on to …