Even boneheaded mistakes and shameful backsliding can be repurposed by God into profitable lessons—"all things work together for good."

Keep looking up folks! The darkness is thickening. Hellish iniquity is wrapping its serpentine coils around the world choking out common sense, reason, and the word of God. But soon our Saviour will gather us unto himself in the clouds … and then the first seal will be opened.

Truth is objective.
Truth is discernable.
Truth is propositional.
Truth is testable.

Venerated ideas that answer facts with sneers, slanders, and baseless accusations are not truth.

Investment advice.
Go long on Jesus.
Go long on impending judgment.
Go short on the world.

There are a couple dozen major challenges to conservative evangelicalism today, but they all boil down to one battle—a hermeneutic that consistently and robustly uses the historical-grammatical hermeneutic. Win here, win everywhere given time and opportunity. Lose here, you are open to error on every side. Now its a crap shoot.

The imminence of the rapture is like the imminence of a volcanic eruption. As the signs point to imminent eruption, yet the signs can't nail down a day or a week, so the signs point to the imminent rapture, yet the signs can't nail down the month or year.

Isaiah 61:3, "To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."

Rev 8:7, "The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up."

Apparently, God isn't a big fan of political correctness and earth worship.

A vital biblical imperative is speaking the truth in love (the gospel, the fundamentals of the faith, the core prophetic truths).

You will fall short in your duty if:
You aren't grounded in the truth.
You have resisted growth in grace.
You put tension between truth and love.

If X (formerly Twitter) goes down the path of turning off the "block" ability and requiring Big Brother ID requirements, this will likely become my go-to ministry venue.

Would anyone be interested in a Telegram group to connect with believers of like mind? Thumbs up for "yes" and heart for "mega-yes."

Any ideas for a group name? Send them to leebrainard@soothkeep.info

We could be raptured this year. But nothing in the word of God, current events, or imminence demands that we go up this year. Be prepared in your hearts for a rough ride over the next year or two or three. The longer we ride the raging bull of stagesetting, the rougher the ride.

One of the greatest challenges that believers face as they search for truth is staying 100 percent objective, with a heart to side with the facts and the data, no matter what friends or foes say.