The One Condition that Makes Jesus’ Prophecy Unconditional
Copyright © Robert E. Cruickshank, Jr (June 4, 2023) All Rights Reserved In the book of Revelation, John tells his readers that the time was “near” for the prophesied events to take place (Rev. 1:3; 22:10), and Jesus Himself declares that He would be coming “quickly” (Rev. 22:12). This echoes His words in the […]
The Cults, The Dispensationalists, and the End of the World
Copyright © Robert E. Cruickshank, Jr (May 27, 2023) All Rights Reserved Guilt by association is a fallacious way to argue, especially when the accuser is closer to the alleged association than the accused. Case in point: a Dispensational response to the previous blog post on this forum. That post dealt with the […]
Will the Real Antichrist Please Stand Up?
Copyright © Robert E. Cruickshank, Jr (May 20, 2023) Karen Rogers (Editor) All Rights Reserved While speculation about the Antichrist is nothing new, current conjecture regarding who or what he might be is. In ages past, the Pope of Rome was the leading candidate for this diabolical deceiver of the end times. In fact, […]
Biblical Imagery vs. Modern Imagination: Capturing the Image of the Beast
Copyright © Robert E. Cruickshank, Jr (May 13, 2023) Karen Rogers (Editor) All Rights Reserved C.S. Lewis coined the phrase “the discarded image.” While Lewis’ context wasn’t Revelation 13 or the image of the beast, the phrase is nevertheless apropos of how Dispensationalism’s wild speculation has shifted in this area. On the website GotQuestions.org, […]
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 […]
