Kayle de Waal

Kayle B. de Waal, PhD, is education director and disciple-making and prayer coordinator at the Trans-European Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, St. Albans, United Kingdom.

Articles by Kayle de Waal

Why must Satan be released?

December 2023

Why must Satan be set free after the millennium? After all the high drama of Revelation, we would expect that, in chapter 20, Satan would be exposed and then immediately annihilated. Instead, the chief architect of suffering and misery is…

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Amazing Jesus in turbulent times

May 2020

The COVID-19 crisis is a demonstration of how words can lose their force. This global pandemic is called “a life-and-death matter.” Yet so many have continued business as usual while tens of thousands are dying all over the world. Life…

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The Katartismos Pastor

November 2013

A few years ago, I went through a serious spell of “Lone Ranger” ministry. I was active in evangelism in the city of Auckland, conducting one program after another. I had the privilege…

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The downfalls of satan in the book of Revelation

February 2013

The cosmic conflict is the primary background against which the book of Revelation must be understood. John, the author of this book, brings together this significant theme through numerous symbols and creative ways in Revelation. At the…

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The Motif of Way in Luke and Acts (Part 2 of 2)

August 2011

Jesus met most people on the road. All the Gospels portray Jesus on a continual road trip—God in action—urgently making a way to reach us. Along the way, Jesus encountered women broken by disease; a boy and a girl, whose young lives have…

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The Way of the Cross in Mark's Gospel

June 2011

The way is an important designation used in the early church to articulate the newfound faith in Jesus (see Matt. 22:16; Acts 9:2; 18:25; 19:9; 22:4; 24:14, 22).

This article will examine the usage of the word way in Mark…

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Saving God's Reputation: The Theological Function of Pistis Iesou in the Cosmic Narratives of Revelation

January 2009

Sigve Tonstad has made an appreciable contribution to scholarship on Revelation with his perceptive, compelling monograph. The central questions he seeks to address are the overarching rhetorical situation of Revelation and the answer to…

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