Apr
2020

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Are We There Yet? Pandemic and the End-times, Part 5: The Last Battle and the Final Judgment

  FOREWORD:  I started this series of five blogs on March 14, in response to a question from my students: Specifically, is this the end of days? I have heard a number of students joke and comment about this, and I think the jokes and comments about the apocalypse do indicate a small underlying fear. Among […]

Apr
2020

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Are We There Yet? Pandemic and the End-times, Part 4: Antichrist and the Mark of the Beast

  In this series, we have been looking at what the Bible says about the end-times, in response to fears that the coronavirus is a sign that the end is nigh.  In the scenario embraced by many American Christians, if the end is near, then the Antichrist must soon be revealed–indeed, as evangelist John Hagee […]

Mar
2020

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Are We There Yet? Pandemic and the End-times, Part 3: Apocalypse

    In these blogs, we have been reflecting on what the Bible says about the end of the world.  Our study has been prompted specifically by the concern that the COVID-19 pandemic is a biblical sign of the end-times.  So, does the Bible have something to say about our times? The answer, actually, has […]

Mar
2020

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Are We There Yet? Pandemic and the End-times, Part 2: The Rapture

In the midst of this pandemic, many are afraid–and rightly so.  Already in February, over a month ago now, Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred. . . about what might happen if the new coronavirus gained a foothold in the United States. How […]

Mar
2020

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Are We There Yet? Pandemic and the End-times

First of all–please know that there is no reason to downplay the seriousness of this outbreak.  The World Health Organization does not use the term “pandemic” lightly.  Already, as I write this, there are 155,423 cases world wide, and 5,802 people have died–including, to bring this closer to home, 37 in the US.  By the […]

Jan
2014

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What the Bible Says About Homosexuality: Abomination

  After the Sodom story, the most cited passages in our current conversation concerning same-sex relations are Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13.  The first reads, “You must not have sexual intercourse with a man as you would with a woman; it is a detestable practice.”  The second goes further: “If a man has sexual intercourse with a man as […]