by Marcelo A. Tolopilo © Divine orchestration directed the Lord to Calvary As we saw in our previous two Lighthouse articles, God’s sovereign will led our Lord Jesus to the cross. The Lord’s final Passover was not a heap of unplanned accidents that ended with Jesus tragically hanging on a Roman cross. Quite the opposite is true! God the Father

by Marcelo A. Tolopilo © In our previous Lighthouse article we saw that God, like a master conductor, orchestrated the unfolding of world events over hundreds of years to set the stage to reveal His Anointed One. God was completely in control of the big picture. The Father moved nations, kings, prophets, and history itself to introduce His Son the

by Marcelo A. Tolopilo © I want to dedicate the next three Lighthouse articles to exploring the Lord’s last Passover on this earth. Actually “exploring” is too ambitious a term because we don’t have the time to dig and excavate the depth and breadth of this marvelous topic. Let’s rather think of ourselves as textual archeologists working on a small

by Valorie L. Tolopilo © Introduction I have asked my dear wife to contribute the opening article. She penned a short tribute to my dad (Anthony Tolopilo) who passed away eight and a half years ago. I (Marcelo) will never forget a few days before the Lord called my father home. He woke up with a deep impression that the

What will our future resurrection bodies be like? by Marcelo A. Tolopilo © We have explored the believer’s journey to resurrection morning. Our first step to that great event is our exit from this life into the presence of our Lord Jesus.  Every Christian that has lived before us has clung to the hope that “to be absent from the

© Marcelo A. Tolopilo Now that we have dealt with death—the believer’s journey from this life to the presence of the Lord—we can proceed to talk about our glorious resurrection! You do realize that we will all live in our actual physical bodies for eternity, right? God has redeemed our souls, but He will also completely redeem our bodies in

(copyright, Marcelo A. Tolopilo) In our last blog we began a brief series contemplating our voyage to resurrection morning, which for most Christians throughout history, of course, begins with our exit from this earth, death. For many death is a horrifying specter For many who do not hope in Jesus for redemption, the subject of death and dying can be

(copyright, Marcelo A. Tolopilo) “I’d rather not talk about it!” Most people would prefer not to talk about death. Yet as a human race it is most definitely on our collective mind. We spend billions of dollars every year trying to circumvent it through medicine. We read about it, think about it, joke about it, andfear it—perhaps more than the

(Copyright: Marcelo A. Tolopilo) On Sunday mornings in our home church, we are doing an overview of the book of Revelation. Even though I’m not a fan of fast fly over studies of complex material, one upside is that such an approach does give a bird’s-eye view of the big picture realities of any book of the Bible, including the

(copyright, Marcelo A. Tolopilo) “Now there was also an inscription above Him, ‘THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.” One of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at Him, saying, ‘Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!’ But the other answered, and rebuking him said, ‘Do you not even fear God, since you are under