Dispensationalism, Abortion, and the Terminal Generation
Dispensationalism, Abortion, and the Terminal Generation Copyright © Robert E. Cruickshank, Jr (May 7, 2023) Karen Rogers (Editor) All Rights Reserved In 1973, Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth was all the rage in the Christian world.[1] Nestled securely on the shelf of every Christian bookstore across America and on the coffee table […]
War – It’s Good for Dispensationalism!
War – It’s Good for Dispensationalism! Copyright © Robert E. Cruickshank, Jr (April 17, 2023) Karen Rogers (Editor) All Rights Reserved War! What is it good for? As Edwin Starr’s classic song says: “Nothing. Absolutely nothing.” But for the purveyors of modern pop-prophecy, war is good for bringing about God’s plan and purpose in […]
Four Signs that a Bible Teacher Doesn’t Understand the Signs
Four Signs that a Bible Teacher Doesn’t Understand the Signs Copyright © Robert E. Cruickshank, Jr (April 14, 2023) Karen Rogers (Editor) All Rights Reserved Pop-prophecy pundit, David Jeremiah, claims there are “four signs of the end times” by which he can “…say with certainty that we are closer to the Rapture and the […]
Days of Past Future?
Days of Past Future? Copyright © Robert E. Cruickshank, Jr (April 8, 2023) Karen Rogers (Editor) All Rights Reserved “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is probably one of the cleverest movie titles to ever hit the big screen. From the 1970’s “Thief in the Night” to this year’s “Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist,” […]
Ninety Percent of Pastors Agree –This is How Things Are Supposed to Be!
Copyright © Robert E. Cruickshank, Jr (April 2, 2023) Karen Rogers (Editor) All Rights Reserved A recent survey from Nashville-based Lifeway Research reveals, “almost 9 in 10 pastors see at least some current events matching those Jesus said would occur shortly before he returns to Earth.”[1] If this is the case, then the “current […]
The Rapture Index: Bad News is Good News
Back in 1987, David Chilton talked about how Dispensationalists oddly viewed “any new outbreak of war, any rise in crime statistics” and “any new evidence of the breakdown of the family” as “progress.” It was all “a step forward toward the expected goal of the total collapse of civilization, a sign that Jesus might come […]
Gog, Magog…Russia and the Rapture?
My good friend, Joel Rosenauer, has a saying: “When there is a lack of information, there are overactive imaginations.” Overactive imaginations seem to be running wild in an article by Steppes of Faith titled “Who is Gog and Magog in Bible Prophecy.”[1] According to the article, the infamous “Gog of the Land Magog” (Ezekiel […]
Missing the Mark of the Beast
“And he causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads” (Revelation 13:16). Is the mark of the beast a tattoo on the forehead and/or a barcode imprinted on the right hand […]
Here’s Hoping a Future Generation Will Get “This Generation” Right
In Matthew 24:34, Jesus says: “…this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.” Throughout Matthew’s Gospel, “this generation” always refers to the generation to whom Jesus was speaking. In other words, the people of the first-century generation. And throughout chapter 24, Jesus repeatedly uses the second-person plural, “you.” He was telling […]
The General Judgment and The Gospel
“They show that the work of the law is u written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men y by Christ Jesus” (Romans 2:15-16 ESV). Recently, the attempt is […]
