Posts Tagged: Gentile

Biblical Audio Commentary – Tribulation Desolation: Good Luck, Post-Tribbers!

This is a never-ending source of fascination for me: How is it that those who adhere to a post-Tribulation Rapture perspective can actually look forward to those horrific seven years of God’s wrath and judgment?  And they do.  There is almost a glee about many of them as they consider these coming difficult times.  In their thinking: Oh, they’ll be shielded by God and also be performing astounding miracles.  I think some see themselves symbolically as the Two Witnesses.  They’ll live in protected, sustainable communities apart from all those on the receiving end of God’s punishment.  It’ll be a glorious time, unlike any other ever experienced on the earth for them. Well, they’ve got that last part right.

Judges 10:16 – God Grew Weary

In the time of their oppression from various foreign powers, Israel stubbornly and foolishly resisted turning to Yahweh for deliverance.  Judges 10:6 describes this: The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the…

Choosing Jesus – When?

Let’s start this message with a couple of Scriptures to set the stage.  The first is Philippians 2:10-11, which says: “that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” And then…