Confession and Petition

Holy Lord, we have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Your mind in Your Word, of neglect to seek You in our daily life. Our transgressions and short-comings present us with a list of accusations, but we bless You that they will not stand against us, for all have been laid on Christ. Go on to subdue our corruptions, and grant us grace to live above them. Let not the passions of the flesh nor lustings of the mind bring our spirit into subjection, but may You rule over me in liberty and power.
 
We thank You that many of our prayers have been refused. We have asked amiss and do not have, we have prayed from lusts and been rejected, we have longed for Egypt and been given a wilderness. Go on with Your patient work, answering 'no' to our wrongful prayers, and fitting us to accept it. Purge us from every false desire, every base aspiration, everything contrary to Your good rule. We thank You for Your wisdom and Your love, for all the acts of discipline to which we are subject, for sometimes putting us into the furnace to refine our gold and remove our dross.
 
Father, no trial is so hard to bear as a sense of sin. If You were to give us a choice to live in pleasure and keep our sins, or to have them burnt away with trial, give us sanctified affliction. Deliver us from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Your grace in us, everything that prevents us taking delight in You. Then we shall bless You, God of jeshurun, for helping us to be upright.

Based on The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions, edited by Arthur Bennett

Spiritual Helps

Eternal Father, it is amazing love, that You have sent Your Son to suffer in our place, that You have given us the Holy Spirit to teach us, to comfort us, and to guide us, and that You have allowed the ministry of angels to wall us around; because of the life, death and resurrection of Your Son, all heaven is available to help the well-being of poor worms like us. Permit Your unseen servants to be ever active on our behalf, and to rejoice when grace increases in us. Don’t let them rest until our conflicts are over, and we stand victorious on salvation's shore. 

Lord, grant that our proneness to evil, deadness to good, and resistance to Your Spirit's work, may never provoke You to abandon us. May our hard hearts awake Your pity, not Your wrath. And if the enemy gets an advantage through our sin, let it be seen that heaven is mightier than hell, that those for me are greater than those against me. Arise to our help in richness of covenant blessings, keep us feeding in the pastures of Your strengthening Word, searching Scripture to find You there. 

Father, if our waywardness is visited with Your discipline, enable us to receive correction meekly, to bless the reproving hand, to discern the motive of rebuke, to respond promptly, and do the first work. Let all Your fatherly dealings make us a partaker of Your holiness. Grant that in every fall we may sink lower on our knees, and that when we rise it may be to greater heights of devotion. May our every cross be sanctified, every loss be gain, every denial a spiritual advantage, every dark day a light of the Holy Spirit, every night of trial a song. 

Based on The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions, edited by Arthur Bennett

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The Great Tribulation

Israel and the End Times

The Kingdom of God

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I posted this mp3 from D A Carson in response to a very good article from Worldview Weekend by Dr. Tommy Ice (http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=8269). In my opinion D A Carson does a very good job exegeting Revelation and his interpretation is well worth listening to even if you happen to disagree. You can find the rest of this series here http://thegospelcoalition.org/resources/scripture-index/a/revelation

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Interpreting Prophecy

Last Days Madness

The End? Q&A 1

Historic Premillenialism

Postmillennialism

Amillennialism