Series: The Elephant in the RoomPart I: How the Apostles Read the Throne — Post 1 of 5 There is an elephant in the room whenever Christians discuss Israel, Jerusalem, Bible prophecy, and the return of Jesus Christ. We are often told that the Old Testament requires a future restoration of Israel as a distinct…
Jump to Table of Contents Introduction There is an elephant in the room whenever Christians discuss Israel, Jerusalem, Bible prophecy, and the return of Jesus Christ. We are often told that the Old Testament requires a future restoration of Israel as a distinct national people in the land, Jerusalem as the governmental center of Messiah’s…
Series: Why I Trust the KJV — Post 1 The Real Danger of Translation Philosophy There are many reasons I trust the King James Bible. Some of them involve manuscripts, textual history, and particular verses that have been weakened, altered, bracketed, or omitted in modern versions. Those matters deserve careful treatment, and we will come…
Why Living by Christ Does Not Mean Abandoning God’s Righteous Standard Introduction — When Words Trigger Concern Recently, a reader responded to an article of mine with a concern that is worth addressing carefully. He had spent decades in a movement shaped by the teachings of Witness Lee, and when he read the phrase “beyond…
Series: Hard Questions, Holy Answers — Post 41 Introduction — When Faith Looks for Proof Many are coming to see the Shroud of Turin in my city this week. Having been raised in a Catholic family, I grew up watching people venerate relics, objects believed to be connected to Christ. Over the years, I have seen the Shroud…
(When Revelation Gives Way to Reconstruction — Post 17) One of the striking things about the New Testament is something most readers never notice. The apostles rarely retell the stories of Jesus’ earthly ministry. They do not reconstruct His timeline nor did they harmonize the Gospels. They did not attempt to arrange events chronologically. Instead,…
(When Revelation Gives Way to Reconstruction — Post 16) One of the quiet marks of the last days is not outright heresy, but reverence without authority. Never before has the Church had more information about Jesus—His words cataloged, His movements harmonized, His life reconstructed in detail—while simultaneously lacking confidence in what His death, resurrection, and…
(Truth in the Last Days — Post 23) After examining prophecy systems, Zionist expectations, timeline reconstructions, and interpretive traditions that have displaced Christ from the center of Scripture, the question that remains is simple: What does apostolic Christianity actually look like? The goal of this series has not been to create a new system or…
(Truth in the Last Days — Post 21) A Biblical Answer to a Difficult Question One question that frequently arises in conversations about the Middle East is this: Why does the world seem to be against Israel and the Jewish people? Some claim the hostility is simply because Israel was once God’s nation and the…
Series: Hard Questions, Holy Answers — Post 39 Why the Church receives illumination today, not new doctrine By this point a thoughtful reader may ask an important question: If Christ still gives ministries to His Church, and if the Holy Spirit still speaks, why should we not expect new revelation through modern apostles or prophets? After all, the…