“Houston, we have a problem.” A potentially serious issue with the Apollo 13 spacecraft back in 1970 caused one of the NASA astronauts to supposedly utter this phrase. In reality, it was stated in the past tense as “Houston, we’ve had a problem here.” Regardless, it’s famously misquoted and is quite useful to this present…
Posts Categorized: Rapture
A Chance Encounter With a Sister in Christ
Away from our normal environs, my wife and I were walking on a Florida beach late in the afternoon when I spotted a younger asian lady sitting alone, reading what could only be a Bible. I resolved on our way back that I would stop and talk with her. When we returned some twenty minutes…
Scoffers & Mockers Then & Now
Back in Ezekiel’s day, he faced much scoffing and mocking when he brought forth the Word of the Lord. Despite being so faithful to God and being a conduit for many messages to the Israelites, their constant scorn of God’s prophetic Word had to weigh on Ezekiel. To reassure him, God spoke extensively about those…
How Preterism Leads to NAR Thinking
Preterism is an eschatological position that believes all or most Bible prophecy was fulfilled by the end of the first century. A couple of years ago some friends from our church spent a week at Bethel Church in Redding, CA, bought a book on partial-preterism from the Bethel bookstore, and recommended I read it since…
Antichrist’s Covenant with Israel & The Catholic Church
Original thinkers appeal to me—those who think out of the box. Some of this ilk naturally end up far-afield and are completely wrong. Others go against the grain of doctrine, i.e. what we know because that’s what we’ve always believed. But, as Dr. Michael Heiser, one of my favorites in this thinking out-of-the-box category says:…
Whose Kingdom Is NAR Ushering In?
In a most amazing passage, Isaiah details his standing in the throne room of God with all its might and majesty. In Isaiah 6:1-10, he sees God’s glory and knows His holiness: In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of…