I submit to the Scriptures implicitly and absolutely. I will not allow a few wrongly understood prooftexts cited by the preterists to overthrow many plain statements of Scripture. That kind of wresting is the game of the Catholics, the half-Catholics, the sects, and the cults.

The Bible is clear, in many passages, that when the Lord Jesus comes, the heavens will be rent, the heavens will roll like a scroll, the sun will be darkened, the moon shall turn blood red, the whole earth will be shaken, the mountains will fall. These are not hyperbole. These are not mystical truths. These don't need a magic key to understand. These are history foretold—future facts as rock solid as the historical facts of the flood that covered all the high mountains and the fire that fell on Sodom. The second coming is severe judgment for the whole world. To wrest the second coming passages is to hate the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Joshua 1:7 —- Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. 

This principle can be rightly applied to the Christian and his observance of the teachings of Christ.  There is blessing for following Christ and obeying his word. There is great blessing for following Christ and obeying his word with your whole heart.

Read the word,
Study the word,
Meditate on the word,

Trust the word,
Obey the word,
Discern with the word,

Preach the word,
Teach the word,
Defend the word,

Rest on the word,
Bank on the word,
Treasure the word.

The idea that the covenant which starts the tribulation is a group of officials getting together and jointly affirming a covenant is not based on the Hebrew of Dan. 9:24-27. There we read that the antichrist shall unilaterally force a treaty upon the many in Israel. (The construction is called the dative of disadvantage).

The treaty will be forced upon Israel after the rapture, after Gog and Magog, after the first seal is opened loosing the antichrist, and after the antichrist consolidates his power over the ten toes of the Roman empire.

Those teachers who keep looking at all the seven year meetings and two-state solution meetings as potential starting points for the tribulation are wandering from the plain statement of Scripture. These meetings are foundational for the covenant that starts the tribulation. They are not potential tribulation starting points.

We have run into a few snags with the home purchase in Oklahoma. Please pray that God will make HIS way plain, whether securing the current house or leading us to something even better.

Some thoughts on weather and natural event signs.

GENERAL SIGNS. Things like hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and volcanoes have always been signs of the shortness and uncertainty of life, signs that the world is under the curse and judgment and racing toward the end of the age, warnings that men should turn their hearts to God while they still have breath. In and of themselves, however, these signs are not signs of the end of the age.

END OF THE AGE SIGNS. The first certain signs of the end in the natural realm will be the rapture of the church and the fire that falls on Gog and Magog and on the world in general. The seals and trumpets that follow will introduce a river of signs of the end of the age that will far surpass the normal course of nature. Massive rocks will fall from heaven. Nature will run amok. The final earthquake will shake the entire globe.

Romans 8:18 — For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us.

Many a popular opinion down here on earth among Christians will be found at the judgment seat of Christ to be groundless — based on prejudice, proof texts, soundbites, and rhetoric. Blessed is the man who finds the strength to resist the emotional pitches and stand with solid arguments based on solid evidence.

Philippians 1:6 — Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

If Jesus started the work (justification and regeneration), he will bring it all the way to the end (glorification).

Thanks to the Lord and to all who have prayed. Things are going forward with the house purchase in Oklahoma. The seller and the seller's agent have figured out a way to navigate the snag. Nita and I are very thankful.

If a teaching harmonizes with all of the evidence, then it can be received as true. But if it rejects some of the evidence, then it must be rejected.

Jesus sweeps the trash out of your life.

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Replacement theology pretends that being grafted into "one new man" means that the Gentiles have been grafted into Israel, making the church an expansion of Israel. On the basis of this assertion, they reject the label replacement theology as a misnomer. But their reasoning must be rejected. If the church is "one new man," she can't be the same old man.

The moral of the story is, replacement theology can't exist in an environment of high-school level grammar and attention to contextual clues. It can only exist in an environment of hyper-sophisticated grammar and attention to esoteric clues.

The steps to secure America's cities and borders, while a welcome reprieve in the short term, could ultimately provide precedent for absolutism here in America—an absolutism that would be as intolerant of biblical conservatism as it is hard-left lunacy. The urgency to stop hard-left lunacy could well pave the road for a slightly left-leaning Centrism to seize control of this country, one that tolerates modest liberals (especially old school), most independents, and modest conservatives, but rejects all positions that vary from this paradigm as extremism. No extremism will be hated more than biblicism.