The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

1 Thessalonians  5  Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.   2  For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.   3  While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.   4  But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.   5  For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.   6  So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.   7  For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.   8  But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith ...

  8  There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.   2  For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.   3  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,   4  in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.   5  For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.   6  For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.   7  For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for...

 John 7:  53  [[They went each to his own house, 8  1  but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2  Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.   3  The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst   4  they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.   5  Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”   6  This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.   7  And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them,  “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”   8  And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.   9  But when they heard it, t...

  3  But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.   2  For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,   3  heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,   4  treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,   5  having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.   6  For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,   7  always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.   8  Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the fait...

  1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2  He was in the beginning with God.   3  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4  In him was life, [ a ]  and the life was the light of men.   5  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 6  There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.   7  He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.   8  He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 9  The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.   10  He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.   11  He came to his own, [ b ]  and his own people [ c ]  did not receive him.   12 ...

  The River of Life 22  Then the angel [ a ]  showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2  through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life [ b ]  with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.   3  No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.   4  They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5  And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever. Jesus Is Coming 6  And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets,...

22  Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2  through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of lifewith its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.   3  No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.   4  They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5  And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever. 6  And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take...

21  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.   2  And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.   3  And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,and God himself will be with them as their God.   4  He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 5  And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”   6  And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, t...

Romans 1:18  The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,   19  since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.   20  For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. I’ve done some more thinking about our excursions into Covenant Theology this past December (2024) in which we looked at the 7 Churches in Revelation as representations of the covenants that comprise the Covenant of Grace.   In this chart, I have included the Edenic Covenant as Patmos (where Revelation’s narrative begins).    At its heart, Revelation is the story of the Beautific Vision & the City of God in every age.  This is its story:         Mercy  ...

  20  And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.   2  He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.   3  He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. 4  I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They [ a ] had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reignedwith Christ a thousand years.   5  (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand yea...