by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
Some things that are so obvious are overlooked. While waking from an afternoon sleep on the Channel Island of Jersey after a morning of heavy ministry and an ample lunch, it came to me that The number 666 was an outstanding anomaly in the New Testament book of...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
Reacting to fictional approaches to the book of Revelation — and no doubt because many past End Time predictions have failed — some Christians are looking Back into the Past rather than Forward into the Future. Readings from the writings of Josephus correct an overly...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog, Christianity, Teaching
Some church leaders may not be as spiritual as we might like, but then neither was Jehu, who brought down Queen Jezebel — had her thrown down, actually. Elijah’s judgements on the prophets of Baal paved the way for that great victory, but after that, when...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
Memories intrude from the past and fears invade from the future. For some people, yesterday is too hard to forget and for others tomorrow is too unpredictable to even think about. For the first-mentioned, yesterday is too close, and for the second-mentioned, tomorrow...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
Jesus spoke of a person as a “house” and of unclean spirits as bad tenants. Matthew’s account is prophetic, in that Jerusalem is the “house” from which Jesus would evict evil (demonic) tenants and refurnish (heal his people). But his...
by Peter Barfoot | Oct 28, 2025 | Blog
Acts 15:1-33 record the deliberations of the Jerusalem Council and its landmark decision that faith alone was sufficient for salvation. The Council was called as the result of a commotion in the church at Antioch, which arose when Jews from Jerusalem claimed that...