(10-28-2023, 11:24 AM)Grace Wrote: The description of Revelation as you described, sections told from 7 perspectives, is what I posted... It's taught this way by Dr. Baucham, and I posted free access to his sermon section on Revelation.. I believe it's 10 or more sermons in total, but I've never counted.
I just wanted you to know that.
Good to know. I was told that by Jack Hamilton in Newport News VA in the mid-1980's, but he never explained to me just where the sections were, or how they broke down. He and his wife have both gone on to their rewards now, so I'll have to check out the videos to get a real grip on it.
Jack was a smart man, and had immersed himself in the Bible for decades. He came as an interim pastor after the church got blown up by a young pastor over money, and stayed for the rest of my time at that church. He was already retired from another, bigger church, and was supposed to only be a fill-in, but got roped into more or less permanency.
Every October, he preached a "Reformation Day" sermon in commemoration of Martin Luther nailing the "95 Theses" to the church door in Wurtemberg Germany as I recall - but I might not be recalling that exactly right.
Jack gave all of his parishioners the equivalent of a seminary education in Reformation Theology, and what he didn't cover in the pulpit he had books for in the lobby. That's where I got my copy of "Lex Rex". He had an antiquarian bookstore on the side. At one time I had a King James Bible printed in 1820 that I got there, as well as a copy of the complete works of Josephus that I also got there.
Smart man, and funny. He once told me, while sitting in his bookshop pricing some books he'd gotten at an estate sale, that there were golf courses in Heaven. I asked him why he thought that, and he said "I like playing golf. It wouldn't be heaven without golf courses. therefore, there must be golf courses in Heaven."
Another time, he asked me if I knew someone, and I responded "No, I wouldn't know him from Adam" Without even looking up, Jack just said "Adam didn't have a navel." Which took me aback. So I asked, Why wouldn't Adam have a navel?" Jack simply responded that "Adam was created, not born of a woman. Only folks born of a woman have to have a navel."
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