In Context and Culture Trent Roseman and Cory Majors

In today's episode, Cory and Trent take a break from their study through the book of Revelation and talk about what they believe are "areas of present contention within the Southern Baptist Convention."

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Southern Baptist Convention was unable to gather in 2020, and while "absence often makes the heart grow fonder," it seems our distance has only caused dissension. With racial tensions generally on the rise, particular cultural ideologies becoming popularized, and complementarian convictions being met with increased hostility, a fracture in our fellowship is noticeable, if not undeniable.

In this episode, Cory and Trent discuss three important issues they believe will be addressed at the SBC this year messengers need to be aware of:

1) Resolution 9 (CRT/Intersectionality)

2) Complementarianism (Female Pastors)

3) Presidential Election/Entity Discussion (present factions are visible and represented by presidential candidates)

In this episode, Cory and Trent take a look at the fifth trumpet judgment and the creatures that are released from "the bottomless pit." It is due to these horrifying creatures (referred to as "locusts" who inflict pain from their tail like a "scorpion) that unbelievers across the earth look and long for death. However, death evades them.

What does this mean? Is God prolonging their life intentionally? Is he prolonging life in wrathful pain or in gracious patience? Will believers experience this torment? How are we to apply a passage like this to our lives today? Check out this episode for more details!

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In this episode, Cory and Trent take a look at the seventh seal and the first four trumpet judgments of chapter 8 and arrive at their first disagreement with one another. Check out the episode to hear about their disagreement and learn about the significance of the trumpet judgments.

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In this episode, Cory and Trent continue to take a break from their verse by verse exposition of the book of Revelation to take a look at Dispensationalism and its take on the book of Revelation. Both Cory and Trent are familiar with dispensationalism and its framework of Revelation by growing up in churches where it was the primary understanding of the book. However, Cory and Trent both no longer hold its perspective on the book. Listen to Cory and Trent as they discuss what they believe are 8 Difficulties of Dispensationalism (as it pertains to the book of Revelation).

The 8 Difficulties of Dispensationalism they include are:
1.    The Rapture
2.    Two Comings of Christ
3.    The 7 Year Tribulation
4.    Israel and the Church
5.    The Temple and The People of God
6.    Three Resurrections
7.    The Literal Thousand Years
8.    The Chronological Outlook

Join Cory and Trent as they take a break from their study of Revelation to “go down the rabbit hole” talking about their relationship with the Lord, their relationship with each other, and their relationship with the churches they serve.

At the end of chapter 6, destruction erupted across the earth as the sixth seal is opened. The wrath of God poured out across the face of the earth led the inhabitants of the earth to run and hide in caves, crying out for their death, exclaiming, “…the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand (Rev 6:17)?”

The answer to the question of “who can stand as the wrath of God is poured out” is found in the following chapter. In chapter 7, before He brings His wrath against the ungodly, God commands other angels to “not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”

The rest of the chapter explains that, while believers may encounter persecution, they will not experience the wrath of God due to the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit that protects them and marks them as the people of God (a mark antithetical to the mark of the beast).

While John hears 144,000 called out, He sees “a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Both the 144,000 and the great multitude represent the sealed and set-apart, redeemed of God (Rev. 14) at all times and in all places. Join Cory and Trent discuss this hope-filled, awe-inspiring chapter.