Posted on 05/27/2025 5:47:33 AM PDT by Rev M. Bresciani
In every military operation, intelligence is critical. You don’t launch an assault or prepare a defense without first assessing the terrain, the threats, and the timetable. In the same way, Bible prophecy serves as spiritual reconnaissance—it gives believers advance knowledge of God’s redemptive plan, coming judgments, and final victory. But this intel is not meant to be hoarded by the Church like a top-secret file. It’s meant to be shared—urgently, boldly, and with compassion.
Bible prophecy is not merely a roadmap of the end times—it is a divine megaphone shouting to the world: “Jesus saves, and He’s coming back soon!” The growing convergence of prophetic signs isn’t just confirmation for those watching; it’s a wake-up call to mobilize and evangelize.
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Personally, I think that warp drives will be invented sometime before 2062. Millions of people will swarm off planet. It will look like an offworld mayfly hatch in spring.
People will think that’s the tribulation.
But they’ll be wrong.
Think of the Tuskegee Experiment. Some of those test subjects lived to ripe old ages — with a variety of ailments, true, but they survived untreated syphilis for the cause of Science. A robust constitution kept them going.
In the aftermath of the most devastating war ever fought on this continent — one where Americans fought Americans — a profound malaise lay upon the land. One side had lost its national identity. The other side lost its spiritual identity. The winner was a de-facto unitarianism for public life, and little personal Christian chapels for private life. The mind plague of dispensational premillennialism (d.p.) found a home among people whose confidence in themselves, and in their God, had been profoundly shaken.
Now, most d.p.’s were able to compartmentalize their lives fairly easily — one faith for private life, one for public life, and may they never meet. (The one notable exception was an insane crusade to compel neighbors to be holier than Jesus. It succeeded — and discredited Christian social action for a century.)
However, certain vulnerable personalities were made worse by a malady that robust peers shrugged off. This issue came to a head when millions of young Catholic and Jewish folks spearheaded our last major revival. We somehow lacked the knack for compartmentalizing. We acted upon the faith that was handed to us by Hal Lindsey et al. We acted as though these concepts were truly true, rather than “religiously” true. Many of us dropped out of school, quit our jobs, postponed marriage (and adulthood) and bummed around the country “witnessing.”
“When Prophecy Fails” (see Leon Festinger’s examination of a doomsday cult), some find their way back into reality. Others double down on the frame of reference that gave their life meaning. (”Yes, Jesus DID start to return in 1842 — but then He got bogged down in the paperwork halfway here.” Extra points if you can name the Christian denomination that teaches that!)
In my case, when Jesus did not come down to earth on schedule, in 1975, I had to. With a five-year blank space at the beginning of my resume. And a crippled work ethic.
So you see, as one of the vulnerable “little ones” who got burned by the d.p. paradigm, I have a dog in this fight, and a reason for my passion.
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~~~ Dispensationalism soils and spoils what it touches ~~~
Dispensationalism taught several generations of evangelical Christians to DENY the earliest creed of the church, ‘Ιησους Κυριος. Whenever a dispie SAYS “Jesus is Lord,” he uses the Mormon practice of “mental reservation” to MEAN something else. He crosses his fingers behind his back and mutters under his breath “Well, not really. Not yet. Not here.” And redefines the word “Lord” to mean “Guru.”
Our dispie brothers and sisters LOVE the Lord Jesus Christ, Who saves their souls and makes them happy. They just don’t expect Him to do too much, this side of the Second Coming.
Interesting...
We All are growing into His Likeness
Or Not.
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Too many are Not Ready.
Read Matt. 25:1-13. Ten young ladies show up for a party one night, with their lamps. Five are wise, and knowing how unpredictable the actual start time can be, brought extra oil. The others are unwise, and assumed that they didn’t need any reserves.
What event are we talking about? Obviously, not the Last Day / final resurrection. Nothing WE can do can make us as any worthier or “readier” for that event than the atoning blood of our Savior.
OK — so if we’re not talking about that major-league hinge in human history, the obvious candidate event would be the Vindication of our Lord’s Person and ministry, the elimination of Israel as a nation. A catastrophe unparalleled in history before or since. A brutal event that turned the sea (of Galilee) red with the blood of the corpses floating therein. Cannibals dined on their own infants in Jerusalem. Etc.
And Jesus describes this as a PARTY? A glad triumphal feast? Something to eagerly await?
Does this compute? ONLY if what broke into history at that moment was outrageously greater than what it replaced.
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