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The Overcomer Won’t Be Hurt by the Second Death (Revelation 2:11)

October 31, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - hurt by the second death, Litotes, Overcomers, Revelation 2:11, understatement

I recently wrote a blog on the NT concept of overcomers (see here). That blog led to this question: The problem with this logic is that Revelation 2:11 does not make sense if only victorious Christians are overcomers. I need you to address this verse specifically: “‘He who has an ear, let him hear what

The Overcomers

October 22, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 John 5:4-5, and Rev 21:7, Overcomers, Rev 2 11, Rev 2: 26; Rev 3:5, Rev 2:7, Rev 3:12, Rev 3:21

Here is a hot question from my inbox: I enjoy reading your blogs. I need a little clarification on a statement you made in the penultimate paragraph of this post. You used the phrase “only overcoming believers.” Are you suggesting that there are some believers who will not “overcome”? Many Evangelicals say that all believers

Do Judgment Seat of Christ Rewards Last Forever or Just 1,000 years?

June 18, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Eschatology, Eternal Rewards, Millennium, Overcomers, rewards

In a recent blog I suggested that missed rewards would be missed forever. One person strongly disagreed and commented in response that “rewards are for time, 1000 years, not eternity.” Someone else responded to that comment with this question: “Where does the Bible tell us that rewards are just for a short time? It is

Is Overcoming in Revelation 2-3 a Synonym for Believing in Christ?

May 1, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Believers, Overcomers

I wrote a book review in January of 2016 of a book which took a different view of the three outer darkness passages in Matthew than Zane Hodges and I had done. But the book covered much more than those three passages. Among other things, the authors argued that overcoming in Revelation 2-3 is another