Christian End Times Prophecy

 Before delving too deep into a difficult blog post, I want to start with a few key Bible passages that are going to influence what will follow. For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere human beings What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. ( 1 Corinthians 3:4-5  NIV) We have confidence in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do the things we command. ( 2 Thess. 3:4  NIV) In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden...

I think, in line with what happened in the prophecy community the last two weeks (see recent blog posts), you will appreciate this video, particularly the beginning. Pete Garcia's usage of the aviation concept of the cone of confusion is so spot on, it's brilliant. Essentially, in aviation, the closer you get to final on an instrument landing, the more sensitive the instruments are and the needles on some can bob around a bit. If you chase the needle, you'll never hit your mark. For those like me who fly VFR, it would be about course corrections, or chasing the pink line on GPS. You do that, and you'll constantly weave across the line, back and forth, focusing on the line instead of taking into consideration the winds and crabbing and such. Big course corrections, from chasing the line, create big course misdirection. We are in the cone of confusion in the sense that we're close to the end and so much is happening and there's a lot of sensitivity and confusion a...

One of the stranger interactions I had after a recent prophecy update brouhaha was a woman telling me, in a YouTube comment thread in which I was informed that people who saw the planes on 9/11 didn't actually see them but were mentally conditioned to see them, that she thought the earth was round but until she could go into space and see it, she could never know for sure. Um...does she not know she can know that for sure without having to go to space? And that we've already sent enough people and objects to space to do that work for her if that's what she requires? Where to even start? The prophecy update in question made the point that you can't believe what you see. Which is it? We can't believe what we see, or we can only believe when we see? The Bible talks about the importance of having two witnesses, so somewhere in there, the word of someone saying they saw something has a role.  It seemed as if all of those prophecy updates have failed, for seeing is beli...

In the September 11 prophecy update , J. D. Farag (someone I have watched for several years, appreciate, and never miss an update) talked about how there were no planes and the whole thing was a conspiracy. I almost wept, when I realized where he was going. Why are you doing this? I wondered, almost shutting it off but watching through to the end because I like J.D. I noticed there wasn't much scripture that was used in that update, unlike his normal heavy use of scripture, and what was used was kind of an odd wraparound. But he said God told him to talk about this , I thought as my disbelief grew, reminding myself that I don't follow Apollo or Paul  and that other teachers (such as Amir Tsarfati---which we'll get to in a minute---or Andy Wood, have said things I disagree with but can still appreciate their teaching). I have no doubt there may be more to 9/11 than we were told, and that the collapse of building 7 is odd as well as what the demolition and architect experts ...

  There was a  recent post regarding whether Christians should or should not be preppers. It's worth a read and there are quite a few good points to consider. Keep in mind the author believes Christians will be on the earth for the first four horsemen before they are raptured. My response to this question of being a prepper? It's the wrong question. The right question is: Is God asking you to prepare? When we talk to God, he'll be directing us what he wants us to do. The Word of God speaks to the Church as a whole and also to the believer, but the Holy Spirit works in each believer, speaking and working out how that will look in that believer's life and in the situations God places him or her in. We love our enemies, for example, but the Holy Spirit helps us know what that looks like in each situation we are in. "But what about Joseph?" Nearly everyone uses Joseph as their proof text for prepping, for building up huge bank accounts, for stockpiling---but Jos...

If I were to tell you what I see said the most about the rapture as far as disagreeing with a pre-trib rapture, this is probably the list. I will likely be adding to it as I come across others that pop up on my radar. For those wanting to argue various theological positions, I encourage you to watch this YouTube series . Not a single idea, argument, or protest is left untouched. "There are a few signs that need to happen before the rapture." The imminence of the rapture is the key. Nothing needs to happen before it. Nothing. It is sign-less. Don't mistake the shadow and stage-setting for the tribulation as signs of the rapture beyond the fact that the rapture happens before the tribulation and if all that is falling into place than it is ever more imminent than ever before. But there is not one thing that needs to happen before Christ calls his bride home. "You pre-tribbers just want to escape!" Yes, I surely do want to escape going through the tribulation. It...

Since late 2020, I've run a page on MeWe where I've shared articles, videos, and information that relate to Bible prophecy and the end times. In the summer of 2021, I added a Telegram channel. There are many views of Bible prophecy and the end times. As noted in the site description, this site takes a pre-tribulation pre-millennial dispensational view.  Very basically, I believe the rapture happens before the 7 year tribulation, of which the last half is the Great Tribulation. The rapture is imminent, which means are no signs necessary for the rapture. There are signs for things pertaining to the Second Coming of Christ, but not the rapture. Sometimes those signs throw a shadow back on how we live now, which is why people will say "signs of the times" as a way of saying "we're seeing the beginning birth pangs of what is going to happen at the end." The rapture takes Christ's church out of the world before the nation of Israel becomes God's focus...