I had the opportunity to visit again today with my friend, Dr. Michael Brown, leading Messianic Jewish activist, author, speaker and theologian on his nationally syndicated Line of Fire radio program. As always, it was a pleasure and honor to chat with Dr. Brown. In...
For those in or around the Kansas City area, join Reggie Kelly, Bryan Purtle, Dalton Thomas, and myself for a forum discussion concerning Matthew 24 and 25 and the mounting “controversy of Zion.” The format will be dialectic and as intimate as possible with...
I've just returned from several days of gatherings, a seminar and the annual Consecrated Conference in Perth, Western Australia. The sponsoring group/family was New Life Christian Community pastored by Wayne and Julie Hollett, though the events involved various churches from the area. Overall, it was...
Joel Richardson WND
The prophecy of Ezekiel 38 and 39, often referred to as the battle of Gog and Magog, is hands-down one of the most influential end-time prophecies in all of Scripture. But it is also arguably one of the most widely misinterpreted prophecies. This idea that Ezekiel prophesied a Russian-led invasion of Israel is widely taught by numerous well-known and highly respected Bible teachers. The idea finds its basis in the fact that Gog, the leader of the invasion, is from the land of Magog, which, it is claimed, is a reference to Russia. In a previous article, I showed several maps – several created by popular prophecy teachers and several from modern and scholarly referenced Bible atlases. What was quite apparent from that article is that the majority of Bible atlases are not in agreement with the popular belief concerning the location of Magog. While many teach that Magog is a reference to Russia, the Bible atlases all placed Magog in modern-day Turkey. So if modern scholarship does not validate the popular notion that Magog is in Russia, where, then, did this idea come from?
Joel Richardson, WND
In a stunning move, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called for Fethullah Gülen, the reclusive imam of arguably the most powerful Islamist movement in the world, to return home to Turkey from his self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania.
Many visitors to this blog are familiar with the growing crisis in missions revolving around contextualization. While all missionaries are committed to contextualizing the gospel, many missions organizations are openly promoting a radical approach to contextualization. This approach has led to what is commonly known...
Jim Fletcher reviews Mideast Beast:The Scriptural Case for an Islamic Antichrist
If a poll were taken, I’d guess that the one biblical figure people would consider the most mysterious would be the one Paul called “the man of lawlessness”: the Antichrist.