Welcome To Doug’s Author Home Page
Author of “The White Stone Watcher” mystery-action-adventure for young adults, pastor Doug wants to take you along on your action-packed escapade. Journey with him on an exciting quest through the unbelievably bizarre, spectacular, suspenseful, tragic, sensual, horrific, yet glorious journey through the bible.
wide-eyed and naked
The Lord is the Author of a Mystery Novel
The bible reads like a mystery novel but it’s a true story of human disaster and heartbreak. The storyboard was created thousands of years ago. A beautiful world and two wide-eyed naked humans set the story in motion in a garden. Today we have many wild-eyed naked humans running around joining billions more and racing to a climactic close to the story. How does it end? Let’s find out.
The ClayWriter and Author
Doug calls himself the ‘clay writer.’ Adam, the first man, was fashioned from clay. Doug knows he is no better, just a collection of dirt and water formed by God for His purpose. The ‘clay writer’ author creates and gathers content to help readers find their way to a better understanding of challenging passages and doctrines.
Confusing and hard to understand
He has seen too many Christians struggle to understand the bible. That needs to change. With so much uncertainty in the world, he understands the bible should be a source of answers, not more confusion. God’s Word is easier to understand with the right approach. God, the real author of the Bible, has gifted mankind with the scriptures. Anyone who sincerely pursues understanding the Bible can do so. Sadly, many come away from their time in the Word just as confused as ever.
As the content creator for The Write Life author platform, Doug is hoping to guide Bible-hungry Christians and eager Bible students to a clearer understanding of the scriptures. The prophetic scriptures are the primary focus of the articles. He will at times venture into other challenging topics but always steer back to the prophecy passages.
Pastor-teacher and Children’s minister
Doug has served as a pastor, while teaching, and leading children, youth, parents, and adults for over 35 years. Leading in large churches and small his first passion is knowing the One True God. Second to that is his desire to teach about the God he knows. He desires to help sincere Christians and Bible students find a better approach to understanding their Bibles. His approach to prophecy is based on a literal interpretation while keeping context in mind as one reads. Way too many times teachers take a few passages, find a news story, and run crazy with speculation about what the bible says. God is misquoted and misunderstood much too often.
Prophecy is too important
These topics are too important to ignore and we certainly can’t wish them away. Jesus spoke about these things and appeared to leave it open as to when the many things written about would be fulfilled. He mentioned several signs to look for and not a particular date or era. The Church needs to be aware of everything written in the Bible about this time that will come on the earth. It’s better to be awake, prepared, and clear in our understanding of what God told the writers of the Bible regarding what would take place. The Bible has a clear beginning, middle, and end of its story. That end appears to be quickly approaching.
Israel the super sign
Many prophecy teachers refer to Israel as the ‘super sign‘. I think that’s a good way to refer to the nation of Israel. The Jewish people were scattered across the globe and mixed with populations of many cultures. The remarkable thing is that they remain a distinct ethnic group. They didn’t lose their Jewishness. That is important because God’s Messiah, Jesus was born of a Jewish virgin.
As the Author, here is a brief checklist
In the not-too-distant future, as the end-times as described in the Book of Revelation unfold, the nation of Israel will be in the land. Israel is critical in the end-of-day scenarios that will play out. It all takes place in and around the Jewish Nation. Focus on the Jews. They live in rebellion against God right now. That will change. They will repent and recognize Jesus as their Messiah. That will be a hard pill to swallow but it will happen.
Still looking for this to happen.
- A temple will be built.
- Sacrifices will start again.
- Jews will flow back to the nation
- Jealousy against them will surge internationally.
- Ten nations will rise up and attack them.
- Other nations will turn their back on Israel.
- Desecration of the newly built temple will take place. (the abomination of desolation)
- The Antichrist will be revealed.
- Many will turn from faith in Christ
- Worldwide persecution against Jews, Christians, and infidels will increase from bad to horrific.
- Another holocaust begins
A different view than you?
After the above events, much will still need to happen before Christ returns. I do have a different perspective from many teachers today in some of the views I just stated. I’m not concerned about having an alternative view. I’m over that now. We’re all wrong in some of our interpretations. Only God knows the truth. According to my reading of scripture, my view was wrong and is coming more in line with the correct biblical interpretation. I am still refining what I believe to have been wrong interpretations of prophecy and am not sticking my flag in the sand anywhere and saying I’m right and everyone else is wrong.
Keep learning from the Author
I listen to various points of view and try to understand how they arrived at their conclusions. I continue to read a lot, but so many teachers and writers have been wrong and some have been outright shysters just trying to make a dollar bill off the ignorance of others. Like the false prophet Balaam. He tried to get Israel to sin for his gain. Wouldn’t want to be him nor would I want to be the modern shyster.
Rapture when?
I believe the Church will be taken out in the rapture before the wrath of God is poured out on those who take the mark of the beast. I believe the book of Revelation indicates the mark will be put into full effect sometime around the middle of the tribulation.
Still not there yet
I’ll let some of the others propose the next earthquake, terror attack, or eclipse will lead us into Armageddon. Many teachers let their emotions get carried away and scare people into believing every little ripple in the news cycle is the next to last thing before the rapture and martial law. That’s too crazy, and we shouldn’t look at bible prophecy that way. I don’t believe we are as close to the end as many preachers predict. I don’t believe ‘the end is imminent or at any moment’ as many Bible prophecy teachers interpret God’s Word.
What do you think? Can you make a good argument from another point of view?
