bible
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Elijah’s cup and the color of thread, part 1.
I have read the Bible dozens of times in my adult life on a daily basis as well as many hours in my own research regarding the how God uses symbolism in scripture and how to use it to distill often very precise prophecy. But in all that time of reading I had never seen… Continue reading
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No place to go.
As I have listened to or debated atheists in the past about the fact that God is (was and always will be) one thing became clear. Their objection wasn’t so much about evidence or understanding how one could come to know truth but philosophical and emotional. “How could a loving God send anyone to hell?”… Continue reading
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A state of being.
When the church generally refers to the afterlife as a place, it’s not that it is wrong, but that it misses something more basic that should be instinctive. At death, we are no longer biological beings. We’ve transformed into something else. How the Bible often describes the afterlife appears as though it is a place,… Continue reading
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The accusation and the test.
I’ve written and said while teaching that if you feel like your life is a test, it’s because it is a test. We are tempted within and without with sin and with each reaction we either learn and improve or fall deeper into sin. But all of our reactions to these various temptations are kept… Continue reading
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Waiting for?
If you have gone to church or read anything related to the topic of eschatology, the next event on God’s calendar is the rapture. I’m not sure why they think that, given that they describe the beginning of a 7 year tribulation as the time of the seals, moving through the trumpets and finally the… Continue reading
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The Millennial Reign and the complaint.
The Millennial Reign will be a time of great renewal for a world ravaged by its own evil and the punishment commensurate with that evil. At the beginning of the reign of Christ here on earth, mankind will be much smaller in population. However, with the abolition of the culture of death rampant in this… Continue reading
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The strictness of the Millennial Reign and an underground apostasy develops.
The freedom that the Millennial Reign promises is one where people don’t have to be afraid of other’s intentions, that they can lay down safely. And given the scale of injustice that I have observed over the course of a lifetime, mostly from those who are in power specifically to enforce justice, many things that… Continue reading
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The state of the Church before the Millennial Reign: Many antichrists.
If you were a general waging war and the battle was ongoing, would you step into the fray or would you continue to direct from a distance? The apostle John, the author of the book of Revelation writes in an earlier epistle, “Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that… Continue reading
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The state of the Church before the Millennial Reign: Time and timing differences in the book of Revelation.
Another area of disagreement between what I view that the book of Revelation is prophesying and what the church generally teaches has to do with time in the sense that what’s being discussed overall takes place in a seven year period and timing in the placement of the rapture and the arrival of the antichrist.… Continue reading
