Many eschatologists believe the re-instatement of Israel as a nation propelled us into the end times. There are six specific prophecies about Israel that Scripture says will be fulfilled before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Before the nation of Israel was reformed, none of these could have been fulfilled. Today we will explore what […]
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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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You may feel like I’m not talking to you, but even if you don’t recall an end time sermon in your repertoire, you already interpret and teach end time prophecy. Let me prove it with the goal to bring down the walls that are associated with modern preaching and end time prophecy. I get introduced
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A Biblical Principle In Scripture, we have multiple case studies of how God has dealt with His people throughout history and especially in uncertain times, one clear principle from those times is that God always warns His people. Yes, God warns His people. This is seen over and over in history and recorded in Scripture.
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End Time Pizza, Apple, and Oranges My first taste of the studying end times prophecy was watching the move A Thief in the Night, at that time I didn’t realize there were different end time views, but I was exposed to them when I began Bible College. One of my first research projects was on
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There’s an end times’ one-two punch—Mystery Babylon and the Beast Empire—and I can’t ignore this significant end of the age phenomenon any longer. For those who follow me and my work with Stand Firm, you know I’m all about simplifying the end times events to exactly what we must know to get the gist, as
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At Stand Firm, we recently changed our tagline. We’d been simply saying we encouraged believers to hold on, but we’ve shifted to now saying, we help believers navigate such a time as this. Implied in the navigating is that encouragement to hold on. When talking about navigating—different things may come to mind for each of
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So, I have this tagline for my Bible prophecy teaching ministry and it’s not very helpful. I advertise I want to be the boring prophecy guy. I know I need some marketing tips—you know anyone? And I learned really quick, prophecy-intrigued audiences don’t want the boring prophecy guy, they want the great-code-breaker or the wild
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If I’m crazy or irrelevant for preaching about future challenges to the faith, then so is Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Ezra, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Matthew, John Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Jude, and even Jesus. They all warned of future challenges and
It’s Not Wrong to Warn About the Future, the Bible Does Read More »
I know I’m disobeying a meme I saw shared hundreds of times the past two weeks, I’m willing to pay the price of whatever curse was promised to follow. The well-traveled meme said to show pastors grace and not judge them during this pandemic because as it said, “Your pastor has never pastored a church through
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