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.

People do not need scholarship to understand the basic teachings of the Bible. The cream rises to the top, and it is available to everyone. But if men frame sophisticated doctrinal positions that employ theological, grammatical, or historical arguments, they should not whine if men who do have scholarship in those areas challenge their methodology and conclusions.

Time is short. Eternity is long.

Here is a teaching I did a while back on why I believe we will eat steak and bacon in eternity.
https://youtu.be/GUIs-jn-_aU?si=Z8tL4r4pqCaeYF_Y

Some day soon, the rapture trumpet will blow, and all of our sorrows, trials, and disappointments will evaporate like the morning fog in the presence of the desert sun.

Major error cannot thrive without a false dichotomy. False dichotomies guarantee the proliferation of error and hinder men from finding the balanced truth. False dichotomies are the nuclear weapons in Satan's arsenal.

1 Peter 1:13, "Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ."

The timing of the rapture has two unique factors presented in the Scriptures. The FIRST is that there shall be relative normality in the world at large. We see this in passages like Matthew 24:36-44. The world is going about its business unaware that judgment is hanging over its head. The SECOND is that the church finds itself caught in a frightening satanic storm that just blew up. We see this in John 6:16-21. The Lord comes to the church in the middle of the storm, and immediately they are at the land whither they were headed.