Pray for Bubba News (David). He is in the hospital. Don't know any details, but just be praying for him and his family please.

‼️New Blog Post: http://rippster4christ.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-friend-who-turned-his-back-on-god.html?m=1

There is a distinction between the apantesis of the parousia and the parousia itself. For those who engage more with real research and less with soundbites, they soon discover that parousia was a semi-technical term for the arrival of a king, and apantesis was the term used for his subjects going out to meet their king and accompany him in his royal entrance (parousia). The rapture is the apantesis that happens before the parousia, which is the second coming proper. We go up in Rev. 4:1, we are in heaven in Rev. 4-5 before the first seal is opened. We come down again in Rev. 19.

I believe in the prayer of faith. I believe that some have more faith than others. I believe that God still answers prayer and works powerfully on our behalf when we pray with his glory and his work in mind. But I do not believe the "declare blessings" version of faith. This is part of the word of faith movement which misrepresents biblical faith.

Faith isn't something we work up. Faith isn't some intensity of emotion or feeling. Faith isn't showmanship. Faith is rightly applying the word of God to our circumstances in a way that elevates the glory of God and upholds the weakness of man.

This is different for the OT times than for the church age. This is different for the apostolic foundation era of the church than for the church age in general. God had a definite purpose for regular powerful manifestations in the early days of the church, and these manifestations weren't wielded only by the mightiest in faith. These manifestations are largely, not entirely, lacking in the church age now. BUT these powerful signs will return again in wholesale during the tribulation. Men will call for mountains to move into the sea, and they will move into the sea. This won't be because they reached some glorious height of faith and holiness. This will be because they rightly compared the word of God, their dispensation, and their circumstances. They will be men of like passions and problems as us, just like Elijah.

Livestream at 7:30 Central tonight, Fri Jan 10.
https://www.youtube.com/live/EE_gXJZ9ujg?si=4B3EkC38PqI0Ng0G

"It is either the grammatical, literal, historical interpretation or we are adrift on an uncharted sea with every man the norm for himself." — Charles Feinberg

All false doctrines have thee things in common. One, canonizing an extrabiblical presupposition above the Bible itself. Two, ignoring a vast amount of contrary information. Three, embracing a narrative which authorizes them to ignore the contrary information they are ignoring.

Reports are circulating that Hamas has accepted the ceasefire agreement. This is not exactly true. The political arm of Hamas in Qatar has apparently accepted the deal. There is no guarantee that the military branch of Hamas, which is in Gaza, will accept the deal. Time will tell. They have balked at every deal offered so far that doesn't include Israel leaving Gaza entirely. But DJT may force Israel to comply with it, regardless of whether or not the military arm of Hamas agrees. While ostensibly bad from a tactical perspective, this won't be as bad as it looks. It is mostly political optics.