faith
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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
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The state of the Church before the Millennial Reign: The Abyss, hell, the lake of fire and the outer darkness. Are they the same thing?
In Hosea 4:6 the LORD says this: “my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.“Because you have rejected knowledge,I also reject you as my priests;because you have ignored the law of your God,I also will ignore your children.” In an effort to keep the message simple, the church in its teachings sometimes conflate things that… Continue reading
Broad meadows 