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God’s Wrath, the Lamb Slain, and the Tribulation Period

At What time in the future will God unleash His eschatological wrath? This has been a question of considerable debate in the past few years and deserves a Biblical answer.

God’s Wrath, the Lamb Slain, and the Tribulation Period

A major point that pre-tribulation adherents must come to grips with is how to answer mid-tribulationists, pre-wrathers, and post-tribulationists concerning the fact that the church will be kept from the hour of trial and the wrath of God poured out during the coming tribulation period. For pre tribulationists this is our defining moment – our blessed hope. The issue surfaces when those of other camps who are purists to their eschatological persuasion agree in principal that all Christians will be protected from God's wrath. The difference is, they (mainly pre-wrathers and post-tribulationists) for the most part and among other reasons, teach that God has placed the seal of the Spirit upon all believers as a protection from God's wrath during th…
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The God Who Never Passes By

Most people who know me have heard my testimony concerning the life changing work of the Lord Jesus, so I am wont to retell it. But I will say this, after I became a New Christian, I read the Bible through 3-4 times in around 90 days. And then after that, the New Testament several times over. Those who knew me best saw it as a phase--as something that was fleeting. But here I am, forty years later, still proclaiming that which had been proclaimed to me. 
What is it that could effect such change in a person's life? How can a person go from a scoffer of Jesus one moment, to a lover of Jesus the next? Some will say it is psychological--a release of past guilt that makes a person feel better. If that were the case, then why was I able to continue in the faith? Those who do not know Jesus will never understand until they come to know Him for themselves. 
In the biblical record there is a heap evidence that this type of lasting change is what actually occurs. When Jesus spoke to the woman…
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Global Pandemic 2020: Hope in Christ in a World at War

Who would have thought that the next Global war would not be fought with guns, tanks, and artillery? But here we are several months into the worst crisis our world has faced in my lifetime. Only this time the battle accoutrements are not swords but syringes, not gas masks but ventilators, not helmets but face masks, not iron shields but plexiglass barriers, not camo uniforms but scrubs and hazmat suits. The warriors are fearless heroes and soldiers on the front lines, yes, but they are doctors, nurses, CNA’s, EMT’s, RT’s, and the men in blue and red; all doing their best as they battle this pestilence while saving as many lives as they can. The battle rages, hundreds of thousands are casualties, and thousands more have fallen to the unseen enemy, Covid-19. May God’s protection keep them in this hour of trial.
This war is a different kind of war than those in our recent memories. It is not a war being fought in another land far away, where the deployed soldier can say my wife and childr…
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Global Panic, the Rapture of the Church, and the Coming Antichrist...Some Thoughts.

Up front I want to say that I do not believe that we can know the exact day or hour when the Lord will call (rapture) His church to heaven (but we can know the season in which it will occur, (1 Th 5:1-10), and it is soon. Please be aware the things written in this post have to do with the panic and upheaval of current life in light of the Coronavirus Pandemic spreading across the world. Adding to that, we must also realize that the worst of this pandemic may soon pass allowing life to return to a semblance of normal...maybe.

Now, concerning the coming Antichrist, it must be said that future and specific prophetic events in the Bible do point to a time when the world will one day turn their attention and allegiances toward a global leader. In order for that to happen, "something" or "some things" must occur that place the world under or within a dire situation that calls for a leader to rise with answers. The Bible refers so him in metaphorical terms as the First Bea…
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