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.