By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 10, 2023 An interlude is an intervening or a period of interruption, providing space or time before something continues. Chapter 6 of the Book of Revelation described the first six seal judgments but not the seventh. There was an interlude (a parenthesis) in chapter 7 for the […]
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Revelation Chapter 9: Four Unchained Demons, a Demonically Driven Army, and the Unrepentant
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League March 3, 2023 In The Bruised Reed, Richard Sibbes asks, “Can we think that he that threw the angels out of heaven will suffer dust and worms’ meat to run a contrary course, and to continue always so?” Surely not. The Lord is full of grace, mercy, and […]
Revelation Chapter 9: The Pit, the Smoke, and Hideous Demon Creatures
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 24, 2023 In the spring of 1994, the Associated Press reported that Sweden’s defense ministry determined a Soviet submarine had violated Sweden’s territorial waters. High-tech buoys had detected suspicious noises, which prompted their military to start a submarine hunt in the Baltic Sea. This wasn’t the first […]
Revelation Chapter 8: The Eagle of Woes
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 17, 2023 In the book Storm Warning, the late Dr. Billy Graham writes about a group of people having a “hurricane party” before Hurricane Camille. Graham says the winds were strong and howling outside the classy Richelieu Apartments in Pass Christian, Mississippi, when Police Chief Jerry Peralta […]
Revelation Chapter 8: Trumpets Announce Something Bad is About to Happen
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 10, 2023 These are times of significant anxiety. Every day tens of thousands of people feel like something bad is about to happen. This free-floating worry is vague and uncertain, and it troubles them deeply. PsychReel, a group which is made up of psychologists and other mental […]
Revelation Chapter 8: Silence in Heaven?
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 3, 2023 Revelation chapters 6-19 describe the Tribulation period during the end times. After the Church is taken out of the world in what might be called the first phase of Christ’s return, the Rapture, the time of God’s wrath, emerges in three waves of seven: seven […]
Revelation Chapter 7: The Jewish Evangelists Who Will Win Countless People to Christ
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League January 27, 2023 Actor, filmmaker, and liberal activist Rob Reiner once said, “I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.” For once, I agree with him. My respect for the Jewish people is profound. President John Adams said of them: “The Hebrews have done more to […]
Revelation Chapter 7: It’s Not What’s Behind the Weather, but Who
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League January 20, 2023 Historian and International Affairs Specialists Arnold Toynbee once said, “The fundamental need of our world today is a rebirth of belief in the supernatural.” The current age is dominated mainly by reliance only on what can be seen and tested. We live in a period […]
Revelation Chapter 6: A Shattered Universe and a Time of Unprecedented Terror
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League January 13, 2023 Recently, there was an article in the New York Post titled: Nostradamus Predictions for 2023: An Antichrist Arrives, World War III and the Monarchy Dies. The author, Reda Wigle, explained that Nostradamus’ popularity had endured the centuries since he wrote Les Prophéties in 1555. The […]
Revelation Chapter 6: Persecution and ‘the Blood of the Martyrs’
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League January 6, 2023 During the early years of Christian martyrdom (between the 2nd and 5th centuries BCE), Christians fled by the thousands into underground caverns outside of Rome. There were nearly 600 miles of molelike tunnels and passageways where they hid. At least ten generations of Christians were […]