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You Are Here: Identifying our Nearness to the End – Part 3

You Are Here: Identifying our Nearness to the End – Part 3   In the past two articles we’ve looked at end time signs in Scripture and how that most of them are immeasurable unto themselves, but two particular signs stick out as being more measurable. These two signs can be like the old mall

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You Are Here: Identifying our Nearness to the End – Part 2

Almost all the signs in Scripture of the end times are immeasurable unto themselves. This doesn’t mean they’re irrelevant it just means it’s hard to go by them solely to know our proximity to the end of the age.  All though nearly all the signs are to a degree immeasurable there are two signs in

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You Are Here: Identifying our Nearness to the End

Saying we’re living in the last days or near the last days seems to roll off the tongue easy these days, especially when we’re watching the news. But are we really living near the end of the age? Can we even know the nearness to the end of the age? As written in a previous

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How to Encourage Your Church to Focus More on the End Times

Are you concerned that there may be people at your church who are not prepared for the end times struggles the Bible prophesies? Do you wish that your pastor and Bible teachers would put more emphasis on the end times? You may be able to encourage your church to focus more on the end times.

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Not the hour, but the season

Not the Hour, but the Season

Standing firm in the faith calls for knowing not only the challenges we face now, but those we will encounter in the future. Through the Bible we can. Over a third of the Bible is prophecy—we’re warned about what is coming. There’s a lot of debate and confusion over Bible prophecy—especially the end of the

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Gog Will Be Defeated by Jesus: The Bible’s First Prophecy of Gog

Is Putin Gog? Is Russia Magog? Or is Russia Rosh? Is Ezekiel 38 and 39 being fulfilled before our eyes with the Russian invasion? In Cold War days the view that Russia and a Russian led coalition fit the bill was popular with many prophecy teachers and now that Russia has invaded Ukraine it’s gained

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Standing Firm Isn’t Enough

Many, many times since launching stand firm I preached from Luke 19:11-27, the Parable of the Ten Minas. At Stand Firm events, I’d often share a simplified overview of end time events and point out how short this age is when compared to the eternal age to come. Then I’d read the mentioned parable. This

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Prophecy Filter Because God Warns His People

We Face a Warning Hearing Dilemma There’s a clear Biblical principle—God warns His people. He warns through His Word, Holy Spirit, and human agents. Unfortunately, there are other principles in Scripture that makes receiving those warnings challenging, therefore we need a prophecy filter because God warns His people. All throughout Scripture we see God warning

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Rosh Ain’t Russia

The possible invasion of the Ukraine by Russia has rekindled cold war “prophecy hermeneutics” that being that the “Rosh” in Ezekiel 38:3 is Russia therefore Russia is the nation of the Antichrist or at least  the leader of a future Ezekiel 38 war, but a true exegetical look at the passage shows Rosh Ain’t Russia.

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