Johannes Pflaum

In the first four trumpet judgments of Revelation 8, we see how the foundations for life on earth are being increasingly destroyed. According to verse 11, many people die after drinking the water, which was rendered bitter. And finally, with the sixth trumpet (Rev 9:15), one third of what remains of humanity perishes. Doing the math, this would mean that half of humanity perishes through the judgments of Revelation 6 and 9. And, the shocking thing is that the rest of the people do not repent...

Israel was born through fire in Egypt, gathered through fire in history, was resurrected as a nation through fire in 1948, and will be saved through fire in the future. A biblical survey through Scripture and redemptive history. In 2004, when Ariel Sharon (Israel’s Prime Minister at the time) addressed the Knesset about the Gaza “disengagement plan,” he said that Israel had been born in blood. He was referring to the events surrounding the nation’s founding on May 14, 1948. And when we look...

During the Tribulation, the Antichrist will masquerade as God. We are already seeing the end-time tendencies that lead to this pinnacle of delusion about our own divinity. Today, these mostly appear in the way people deal with death and the climate. The answer that God gives in Revelation is as striking as it is highly relevant. Revelation 13 shows us the emergence of the beast, the Antichrist. Verses 5-6 make it clear that it is a human being. The beast has a large mouth for blaspheming God,...