The identity of Magog is hotly debated among prophecy students. The first couple of mentions (Gen 10:2, 1 Chr 1:5) in the Bible speak of a person, the son of Japheth, the son of Noah. All other places speak about the descendants of this individual, usually as a region and people group. Genesis 10 is …
Your mind is built on the idea of complexities and predicting events of the future. If someone throws you a ball, your brain will work very quickly to understand the physics of that object as it floats through the air in an arch towards your hand. You have seen this pattern before and likely practiced …
I wanted to share some thoughts about one of my all-time favorite topics – The Rapture. Before I dive into the position and the support for my view I wanted to say that when it comes to the rapture it’s not a straight forward and easy doctrine to understand. Over the past four or five …
There is a passage in the New Testament where Jesus is explaining to His disciples why He uses parables. Matthew 13:10-15 says that it had been granted to them (His disciples) to understand, but to others it had not been granted. Why would Jesus do this? Is He wanting to keep people away from God? …
The word kingdom is a bit strange to our American sensibilities. We like to think of ourselves in terms of democracy and rule by the people, but the idea of a king is a familiar concept to many nations. Kingdoms are ruled by kings, but for the sake of this article we can refer to …