Sermon Snippets

Last week's National Championship Game was the most watched since I was a sophomore in high school. I am thirty-four years old, almost thirty-five.

My favorite team wasn't playing, but I was pulling for the Wisconsin Badgers. By the end of the game, Duke pulled out the win. As is typical in such contests, the Blue Devils were overjoyed in the end, while the Badgers were despondent.














It was one singular event with two vastly different responses, depending on your point of view.

Such will be the case with the long-anticipated and dreaded battle of Armageddon. Unlike the aforementioned basketball game, this future battle will be no contest. T

Revelation 19 captures the two vastly different responses to the return of Christ and the clash at Armageddon. Both responses are pictured in terms of a "supper". On the victorious side, those of God's Kingdom, it is a wedding supper filled with jubilation and celebration. On the defeated side, it is a feast of terror as birds are invited to feast on the flesh of the defeated kings and powers (19:17-18).

We will look in-depth at this contrast tomorrow and how we can live today in light of these future realities