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.

1 Tim 1:3-4
3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia—remain in Ephesus that you may charge some not to teach heterodoxy (error),
4 Nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.

I trust the pattern of Scripture. The Lord Jesus as the head of the church was raptured to heaven (ascended to heaven) forty days after First Fruits and ten days prior to Pentecost. If the head of the church was raptured off of the Jewish calendar, then it seems very reasonable to believe that the body of the church will be raptured off of the Jewish calendar.

Clarification.

Some misunderstood my post on the rapture and the Jewish calendar. I did not mean the slangish use of OFF, like when we say "based off" and mean "based on." I meant OFF the Jewish calendar in the sense of unrelated to the Jewish calendar.

I do not believe that the church will be raptured on a feast date or on any important Jewish day like Tish B'Av. I believe that we will be raptured OFF the Jewish calendar, not ON or ACCORDING TO the Jewish calendar. The Jewish calendar is for God's dealings with Israel. The Gentiles receive the benefits of these dealings but they do not immediately involve us. The infant church was a Jewish remnant when the first four feasts were fulfilled. No Gentiles received the Holy Spirit of the New Covenant promise, which added them to the church, until several years after Pentecost.

I believe the 6000 year theory, but I would caution that it is an assumption on our part that we are supposed to measure from the cross. If we are supposed to measure from the setting aside of the Jewish remnant and the addition of the first Gentile (making the "one new man"), then we must add some three to five years to the AD 33 date to measure properly. This extends things a bit.

We could find ourselves much deeper into prophetic convergence than the sensationalizing theories imagine the situation. Imminence allows a rapture in the next year. But nothing in imminence, nothing in the Bible, and nothing in prophetic convergence demands a rapture in the next twelve months. The truth is, we don't know where we are supposed to measure the 2000 years from. We are only making slightly educated guesses.