New Testament Texts

A visionary cycle of Revelation that has proven to be one of the most difficult to interpret is Revelation 8–11, the seven trumpets. The language and imagery are complex; and its application to specific historical events has resulted in a variety of views. This interpretational uncertainty could ...

The Divine Design for Marriage According to the Edenic model for marriage, a man and woman are to “be joined” (Heb. dabaq ) to one another in a permanent marital relationship (Gen 2:24). This “joining” involves a lasting covenant bond between husband and wife, implied not only by the covenant t...

Dr. Ekkehardt Mueller, deputy director of the Biblical Research Institute, has written an in-depth study of the book of Revelation in German. Der Erste und der Letzte: Studien zum Buch der Offenbarung ( The First and the Last: Studies in the Book of Revelation ) was published in the series Adv...

This book, one of a number of books that Jon Paulien has published on the Book of Revelation, is concise and quite helpful, providing an excellent survey of the subject in four parts. Daniel and Revelation are important for Adventists. Therefore, works dealing with these apocalyptic books are not...

“For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit” (1 Cor. 14:2, RSV). What was the nature of the tongues Paul mentioned in his first letter to the Corinthians? Was he referring to an ecstatic or angelic unintelligible ...

The Letters of John , written by Ekkehardt Mueller, is the companion book for next quarter’s Adult Bible Study Guide. Thirteen chapters comment on all three of John’s epistles. Chapter 1 introduces the three letters of the apostle John, discussing to whom they were addressed, what problems they f...

Jon Paulien, dean of the School of Religion at Loma Linda University, has recently published a number of books. The volume that we are going to review briefly is an interesting and important book dealing with the concept of Armageddon in John’s Apocalypse. The book consists of twelve chapters and...

In approaching the Book of Revelation, or at least certain sections of the book, one has basically two options. One can chose recapitulation or progression. Opinions on the structure of Revelation and on the delimitation of certain passages determine, to a large degree, whether one opts for one o...

This commentary on Daniel and Revelation is an attractively bound reprint of R. A. Anderson’s books Unfolding Daniel’s Prophecies and Unfolding the Revelation . That Anderson wrote these books in the 1960s, when the cold war was at its height, is evidenced by the fact that he prefers to identi...

While a number of Christians hold that Romans 1:26-27 describes homosexuality and rejects it in all its forms, considering it to be sin, others acknowledge that the passage is dealing with homosexuality but they claim that the issue in Paul is idolatry and pederasty, and that Paul could not have ...