Read, study, and think for yourself

Think: Bible Prophecy 101: Read, Study & think

Most people let others think for them. That includes Bible students.

Do you think for yourself? If that’s an insulting question, then great. That was the intent.

Everyone likes to claim that they think for themselves but in reality, most people just follow their herd of choice. And many of those “followers” choose to follow because the peer pressure to conform is too strong to resist. Individuals that truly think for themselves, making their own decisions, are rare. Are you a rare thinker who does his or her own thinking? I’m sorry to continue the insults but the chances are you’re not. Please feel free to let me know if you are that rare breed.

This truth is a fact of human nature. It’s not exclusive to any country, culture, or clan.

Now, how is this related to Bible prophecy? That’s simple. The same principle of enforced thinking or conformity to the norm applies to Bible prophecy beliefs. Over the years, I’ve spent a fair amount of time listening to or reading the thoughts of opposing views. I purposely pursue the thoughts and ideas of those with different views than what I hold. And surprisingly, one of the things I’ve discovered is that none of the various “camps” of differing views are interested in hearing the viewpoints of others.

 

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Take time to pray and think through the scriptures.

 

Missile silos don’t think

Missile silos are narrow. They have room for only one missile. It’s the same with Bible prophecy opinions. Many Bible students have enough room for one idea. All others are excluded as heretical.

Everyone likes to sit inside their missile silos and take shots at those “heretics” who dare to think differently. In the opening subtitle, I’ve called out Bible students. When I use the phrase “Bible students” I’m referring to anyone who cracks open their Bible and seeks wisdom from God. That includes those who hold doctorates in theology or those who are new to Christ and for the first time in their lives open to the Gospel of John. A young believer is often directed to start reading the Bible in the Gospel of John. That’s a good place to start. That new believer is right to listen to the advice of the more mature believer who offers that nugget of wisdom. But eventually, individuals should learn to decide on their own area of study.

The mature believer who has spent years in Bible study needs to make a bold step in his or her spiritual life. Learn to read, study, and think for yourself. There are many pastors, teachers, and theologians who have let others do their thinking for them. If their teachers said, “A plus B equals 12” then that’s what they accepted as fact. Only heretics will believe otherwise.

Which Bible scholar do you follow?

 

What about Bible prophecy?

A Bible student who is taught the preterist model of Bible prophecy is usually convinced it’s the only viable option. He or she usually refuses to consider the numerous biblical passages that counter their point of view. And when presented with sound biblical arguments, they often point to their chosen and respected scholars who say it’s biblical fact. Or they repeat the well-worn arguments those teachers have laid out.

But the same principle of group-think applies to the rapture or non-rapture points of view. We also have the pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, pre-wrath, and post-tribulation models of Bible prophecy. All of those ideas have their own scholars and popular teachers to which everyone turns when a challenge is presented.

It’s rare that a person will say, “That’s an interesting point, I’ll take a look at that and get back to you.” There are too many parrots who just repeat what they’ve been taught. And not enough students are willing to take the bold step of researching the scriptures apart from the missile silo thinking.

 

Acts 17:11

“Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.”

 

Holy Spirit Thinking

The Holy Spirit is my teacher. Jesus said the Spirit is the teacher that all of us should learn from. Often, like the rest of us, I’m as dumb as a rock and don’t listen well. Don’t repeat that. 🙂 But I try to remain teachable.

So, with the Holy Spirit as my teacher, I’m free to explore the scriptures and receive instruction and guidance as to the meaning of any passage. But I’ll also consider the ideas of other teachers. But I will always consider the possibility that they could be wrong. What a novel concept. Many of us have a crazy idea, that anything that comes from the pulpit must be inspired by God. Every New Testament writer warned us to beware of false teachers. So we should be on high alert for that.

 

 

Bible scholars who think for themselves.

The following teachers represent some of the teachers I will turn to when looking for wise counsel. Each of these “thinkers” presents their own ideas about the scriptures.

Of the four, I disagree with all of them on some of their views. But I respect their scholarly approach and their willingness to think for themselves. They present ideas that are out of the mainstream. But they are all extremely solid in their Bible study principles. I’ve learned a lot from each of them. Each of them has different views on the same subject. I recommend them to you for your own enrichment in Bible study.

 

Ken Johnson at Bible facts.

Ken teaches the Pre-tribulation rapture and has spent years of study researching ancient scrolls from the early Church Fathers.

 

Michael Heiser at Naked Bible podcast.

Michael refuses to take a firm position on any Bible prophecy model. He argues, correctly I believe, that each doctrinal position has problems.

 

Joel Richardson at Joel’s Trumpet.

As a futurist, I believe Joel takes a post-tribulation point of view. I’m not positive about this, but he’s similar to me in this. After many years as a pre-trib teacher, I’m more flexible in my position.  I lean toward a pre-wrath view but consider post-trib as a possibility.

 

Alan Kurschner at Eschatos Ministries. 

Alan is all in for the pre-wrath doctrine. But this point of view should not be confused with the less popular mid-trib view. You can learn why this is important if you research this on Alan’s site.

 

How about you? Are you stuck in a silo? Or do you allow yourself to read and study opposing points of view?

 

Read, study, and think for yourself
Think on these things, says the Lord

 

The ClayWriter


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13 responses to “Think: Bible Prophecy 101: Read, Study & think”

  1. Great article, thanks!

    I used to hold to the pre-trib view, but decided many years ago to read the Bible as if for the first time because of so many conflicting teachings on pretty much everything. I switched to a Bible with no footnotes and depended on only the Holy Spirit to guide me.

    I had never heard of the pre-wrath view and only knew a little about the other views. But as I read I began to see things I’d never noticed before and, after much study and comparison of scriptures, became convinced that the rapture would occur at the sixth seal. This was well before I had even read or heard of or even knew that there was a ‘view’ such as this.

    Imagine my surprise years later when I read The Sign, by Robert Van Kampen! I had no idea what stance the book was taking, just that it was about the end times. It was the first time I had ever heard the term pre-wrath, and it just happened to line up with what I had already begun to believe. I was ecstatic for the confirmation from someone other than myself.

    The pre-wrath view is becoming more popular now, so I don’t feel quite so alone in it. But if anyone can definitively show me that the rapture will be pre-trib, I would love to hear it, as I have little desire to go through the tribulation!

    1. Doug Drake Avatar
      Doug Drake

      Your situation is similar to mine. I was pre-trib because that’s what I was taught. I am well-versed in all the passages and verses used to support that view. There were a number of issues that I had grown uncomfortable with. I say uncomfortable because as I studied the subject on my own there were things that didn’t add up.
      For instance, the preaching of the imminent return of Christ is common with pre-trib. But there are so many unfulfilled prophecies.
      They say that the rapture is a sign-less event, but Jesus gave so many signs to look for.
      The Apostle Paul corrected a false understanding of the church of Thessalonica. When he did that he created a huge problem. He said the gathering of the saints (the rapture) won’t happen until the falling away and then the appearance of the Antichrist.
      Many have argued incorrectly that the falling away is the rapture but that doesn’t work in the original language nor does it answer the problem of the A.C. Paul said before the gathering (rapture) the Antichrist will appear.
      Plus, for years the pre-trib crowd, which I was proudly a part of, were insisting Jesus would come within 40 years of Israel becoming a nation. Then it was moved to 60 years and now it’s 70 but next year it will be 80.

      I could go on. I have no hard feelings toward those who teach or believe that because I was there. I expect the light to come on for them in the next few years.

  2. I related personally to a lot of what you said above. I can present my life, as testimony to the fact that Jesus teaches us. Please allow me to share below:

    MY STORY (1974… Many Years Ago)

    I came from a violent home, (drugs, alcohol, gun shots, being chased with knives, people thrown thru picture pane windows), in fact I was born three months early because my father kicked my mother in the stomach, and I weighed two pounds nine ounces.

    As early as 7 yrs old I was out on the streets till 3-4 am, I was put in three orphanages… once my father snuck into our house, he put a loaded pistol in my hand and told me too shoot my sisters and my mother, it was crazy.

    Thru all of this, (which I wouldn’t change), I came out a fairly normal kid, I was involved in sports and didn’t do drugs, or drink. I thought I was a survivor, wanting only too make it thru another day.

    At age 16 (in 1974) I started too sense a need in my life, an emptiness that I couldn’t explain.

    I knew I had too find God/Jesus, but who was HE? I had no idea where too find HIM, so I went to the local library to find books concerning world religions, God, and the occult.

    At the library I met an ex hippie (Gary Osborn) he saw my books and decided too share the message with me. Gary invited me to pray in the back of his V.W. so I did, I remember saying “God forgive me for my sins, and whatever you have for me I want it all”.

    Well at first nothing happened I expected, lightening or something. Gary said, “Just go home and praise God” I said, “What’s that, mean” Gary said, “Just thank him” So I did just that.

    The remaining is sacred to me, before I asked Jesus into my heart, I never heard voices, I never drank, and I never did drugs, but one week after meeting Jesus while in the middle of my last class (during high school) A voice, just as clear, as someone standing next too you, spoke, and as the voice spoke it said to me, “rod tell them about Jesus” I was surprised, but unafraid.

    I put my hand over my mouth, since I didn’t want anyone too think I was talking too myself, I said (to whoever spoke too me) “I don’t know what to say” the voice said “don’t be afraid, I’ll give you the words to say” To this day I don’t remember my words, but I spoke too those kids about Jesus and salvation, their mouths just dropped open and then, class was over, I walked out of that room, feeling like I had never felt before.

    The next day was Saturday; I slept in the living room on an old couch. When I woke it was early and I decided too turn on the TV, to watch my favorite cartoon, the roadrunner.
    As I sat there watching the TV, I got up and looked outside, everything was so beautiful, (I never appreciated nature, I just wanted too make it thru another day). BUT now it was so pretty, I sat back down on the couch, and as I did I was somewhere else.

    I was sitting at a long rough hewn table, to my right was Jesus, straight ahead was the father, I couldn’t see him, to my left was Satan, him I could see (he looked like a man only very big) then in front of each of us, but not Satan three bowls appear, filled with what looked like porridge. Now the father spoke and said Satan dismiss yourself, Satan stood and screamed, then vanished. Three bites were taken out of the bowl.

    Then all at once I was watching myself from a distance, walking with Jesus up a grassy pathway. Jesus was speaking to me but from a distance I couldn’t hear him, I could see myself shaking my head (like I understand) then thru my eyes I saw the house where I had been sleeping.

    I didn’t know what had happened; I’d never experienced anything like that, but I knew two things, I had too find a pastor to talk too, and I KNEW GOD loved me and wanted something from me…my total surrender, my life totally under his control, every second, moment by moment, and I was consumed with this one desire, to live too PLEASE HIM.

    Let me give you an example: When a friend from school would come over and say, “Hey rod.” “Let’s go to a show” I’d say, “hold on.” Then Id go in the bathroom and pray, “Lord should I go?”

    Sometimes the Lord would say “go”, sometimes “no” At times He was silent, when this happened I would look inside, to my heart, (Spirit), (see Colossians 3:15) if I had peace I would go, If not, Id stay home.

    As I practiced this new desire, (surrender), I noticed the voice of the Lord became more frequent and clearer, (John 10:27). It always had to agree with scripture. The word of the Lord will always agree with the true meaning and / or the true interpretation of scripture).

    I needed to get a bible, I went to a bookstore and I got the largest family bible Id ever seen, with pictures and everything. I was so happy. That night the voice of the lord said, “Read Matthew 5.” I had to look in the contents; I didn’t know where Matthew was. When I found it and started too read, the words became a (“Word of the Lord to me”) they just jumped off the page, they seemed to come alive, and they filled me, with hope, love and peace.

    Now I knew God loved me, and my sins were gone, I was forgiven…

    As time passed I grew, sometimes Id walk into a busy office or building (like a D.O.L) and the Lord would say go sit by that guy, I would strike up a conversation, then say “you don’t know me but I’m a Christian and God is going too share with me about your life” I don’t mean simple things like “you have the flu” or “Headaches”, but deep, personal things that others couldn’t know or even guess. People would usually start to cry and ask “how did you know?” I’d say “I didn’t but God knew”.

    One of the best lessons from the Lord concerning trusting Him happened like this; I was traveling from Philly to Atlantic city, I got on the road, and started to hitch a ride, (it wasn’t illegal at that time) within one hour and twenty minuets I was in Atlantic city (which was a one hour drive!) I got 4 different rides, as I stepped into each vehicle I boldly proclaimed “Hi I’m a child of the King, and God’s going to bless you for picking me up!” God gave me very personal details about each of those people and all but one came to Christ.

    When I got to Atlantic City, God said “Rod, when you get to the prayer meeting tonight I want you to give all your money, to Johnnie Diaz”. I said “Lord that’s all I’ve got?” (About 300.00) God replied; “you take care of your brothers and sisters in the Lord and I’ll take care of you.” So upon arriving in Atlantic City, I secretly gave all my money to Johnnie, (this was to cover something for Johnnie that was very personal, so I know he didn’t share this with anyone).

    That night I asked myself “how am I going to get back to work, tomorrow? I didn’t have a penny, not even enough for bus fare, and in my spirit I knew I wasn’t to hitch hike, but instead the Lord wanted me on the bus. After sleeping that night and leaving the brothers house the next day, (where the meeting had been held).

    I started walking to the bus station. As I got closer and closer, I was imagining, “is the drivers going to just “know” he’s suppose to let me ride for free?” But as I approached the depot, a brother named “Chicky” came out of his house and said “rod I think the Lord wants me to give this to you.” It was exactly what I needed for bus fare!

    This has been a short summary of my life.

    Many, Many Years after Meeting Jesus…

    A few yrs ago, after many devastating events, I told God, I’ve had enough, I’m done. I tried to commit suicide via shotgun. I was positive no one could live thru that. And even though my carotid artery was cut in the process, I walked to my car carrying my shotgun.

    When I got home after 1-2 months at harborview, I was unsure what God would think of me. After trying to kill myself. My face now a mess, really disfigured.

    Also I had 2 issues that really concerned me. 1). I was NOT trusting Him 2). A decades old habitual sin.

    But one day when all alone, sitting at the kitchen table, Looking out the window He spoke to me.

    He asked me the most amazing questions, and instantly supplied the answers, not with just words, but a knowing.

    As He spoke somehow I just knew, as if by osmosis.

    He said “Do you notice the rain, that each drop is different than the other.”

    I said “I suppose so Lord”

    He said He said “Rod, why do you believe what you believe, who taught you”?

    I said “I don’t know Lord, maybe I just picked things up along the way”

    He said “Do you think truth goes from the mind of one man, and into the mind of another”?

    I said “No Lord, I believe it’s from revelation, into the spirit of a man, from God”.

    He said “You are like a piece of fruit in a bowl, with many other piece of fruit (Christians), but you are “THE WORST” piece of fruit in that bowl”…

    Then He said “I don’t want you, to ever again, place your sin, above my love and grace for you”.

    Just a few days after this, He communed with me again, setting me free, from my sins, and then a third time, He made me free to trust Him…. That story and thoughts follow…

    I spent 34 years in habitual sin. I loved and hated my sin. I prayed, fasted, confessed, cried, screamed, and struggled.

    Then one day, I yelled at God, “When are you going to help me with this”?….

    And God replied “When are you going to tell me the truth”?

    I said “What truth”? (I had no idea what truth the Lord was talking about)…

    THEN I SAW…..

    It was suddenly revealed to me, somehow inwardly I understood, instantly, what He wanted.

    I not only saw “THE TRUTH” about my situation, I was to agree with Him,. and confess this truth to Him.

    I said Lord “I love my sin, I don’t want you to interfere, at all, I want you to leave me with this sin, don’t bother me in any way”…

    Suddenly I found myself free, my daily bondage of 34 years was over, that was 10 years ago.

    Truth set me free, but what truth was it????
    It was truth that He revealed about me, that made me free, not only that, it was following His leading, as I instantly KNEW He wanted me to agree with Him, and confess this revealed truth back to Him….Showing US this is a spirit thing, we must have a personal relationship with Him, ao we can hear Him.

    I Went To See The Son of God Movie… When All of a Sudden…As I Was Watching Jesus Die…

    I heard myself say “Oh that is why Jesus died, as it dawned on me that Jesus was right when he said “You must be born again.

    In all of Paul’s writings concerning:

    The Spirit,
    The Flesh,
    Death,
    Sin,
    Lust of the flesh,
    The 1st Adam,
    The 2nd Adam,
    and walking in the Spirit…

    That these things are all tied to the death of Jesus.

    It’s as if God decided to give up on “The flesh” since the flesh was never able to abide by His commands, nor please Him, and move to the Spirit, as a new creation.

    Kind of like changing trains, or modes of transportation…

    That is why Jesus said “You must be born again”. Born of Spirit. A new creation.

    Jesus died; literally killed the vehicle of sin, and death, by dying in the flesh.

    So when we are born again, we really are NEW creatures.

    Old things have passed away. This is why that seed remains sin free. Because sin worked through the flesh…

    Adam was in the flesh, and sinned in the flesh.

    Sin can’t work in the Spirit…It’s not the right vehicle (seed) for sin…

    Someone asked: Jesus received the power of holy spirit when he sat down at the right hand of God. With what power then did he previously construct the universe?

    A careful reading of the scriptures says that God spoke (we call this, “the word of God”), and things that are lept into existence.

    So this means according to Genesis “The Word” created all that we see.

    Then several thousand years later, in the time of Jesus birth, the bible says “The Word BECAME Flesh”, (past tense) meaning the word, wasn’t flesh before this point in time.

    So without interpretation, that is what the bible says.

    What is Sin?

    Please allow me explain sin.

    The bible, the words of Jesus, and the writings of Paul explain this for us. The concept is whatever makes YOU feel that you have something between you and God is wrong.

    This is a thing that effects the conscience, where Paul says for a weaker brother, I would NOT eat meat sacrificed to an idol, although an idol is nothing to me.

    Paul then goes on to say (after he matured in Christ) that ALL things were legal for him to do, but that they may not be beneficial to him.

    Jesus looks at it from another angle and stated that unbelief is the greatest sin, since the unbelief in HIM, would cut you off from the remedy, which was Jesus himself.

    Jesus mission was not that we be good enough, for God knew, and wanted us to know we could NEVER be good enough, and would never keep His commandments.

    So the remedy was to forget the flesh; (the human body, sin, desires…ie This flesh and bones, that we live in), and concentrate on a NEW creation (vehicle), which was SPIRIT, (as in, we are spirit, soul, and body). For the spirit was willing and able to please God, because the flesh was made weak after the transgression, in the garden.

    So god, so to speak, told everyone who would believe in Him…We are moving our focus to “The Spirit”, for it is the only thing that can inherit eternal life, for the flesh goes into the grave, but the spirit after regeneration (being given new life, lives forever).

    So God no longer focuses on the human body (flesh), But instead on a gift he gives you, this gift is the new spirit, and eternal life.

    I think the bible (The scriptures) are from God, and contain his word, and they are true.

    They are the words of God…Spoken to others in time past, and written down for us…

    BUT the bible describes itself as the scriptures, and it describes something else too…

    In several verses it proclaims something, and we read it and never quite see it, but it’s there in full bloom…It’s something different than the scriptures that we see described.

    It’s something that is so important to have operating in our lives, so that WE like those written about in the bible, can look each other, and say “I too have experienced that the same thing”.

    What is that thing that we need to experience?

    It’s “THE WORD”…

    It’s spoken about in Gen 1, John 1, and Hebrews 4:12…

    We see it described in Acts…

    Peter says it happened to him, the word came to him and said rise and eat….

    Phillip had the experience when the word came and told him to join himself to the chariot…

    It happened to Paul when it knocked him off his horse…

    And this very thing we are discussing is named for us in Revelation 19:13: “And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood”: and his name is called “The Word of God.”

    I got to thinking about the beginning, brothers such as you and I, in the 70’s…

    I was thinking about contrast. Then and now, what were the less obvious differences, those invisible spiritual things that are under the surface, not seen by the human eye, only discerned, IF you had discernment…Things seemingly small yet so important, unnoticed by many.

    It was my experience then that I met two sets of circumstances that were totally different.

    I went to a few churches, before I got invited to go to the east coast. The churches were formal, it involved teaching, and a form of doctrine. If you agreed to the knowledge they tried to impart to you, you might even get to be an elder. You were certainly a member of their church. You might even get an immediate invite for a baptism.

    There were many other churches in this same city, shoot, there were several just a block away. But they never fellow-shipped together, separated I guess by their doctrines, their denomination. Some back then even claimed not to have a denomination, yet you found out there was no such thing. They still had beliefs that would cause them to separate from you, if you thought differently.

    How different when I got to the East Coast. Brothers meeting you, knowing nothing about you, not caring what doctrines you believed. They didn’t invite you to their church, so they could impart any certain knowledge to you…It was just Christ and Him crucified.

    Actually no one even went to church, but the life in these people who met together from 2 or 3 states was unmistakable.

    The fellowship was around a simple profession of Christ, and simple evidence of “LIFE” streaming from the inside of that other person you had just met. Then of course there was a witness of the spirit, and you knew you had just met a brother. You didn’t know what he believed, about anything, but you knew he believed in that ONE THING that mattered.

    And the evidence was perceived LIFE…IF that brother didn’t have THAT, man it was witnessing time. It didn’t matter if he was a guy on the street or a pastor… You either had Jesus and his life, or you didn’t.

    If he didn’t have that life, he wasn’t a brother and their was NO WAY you could fellowship with him, so you knew you just had to tell him the good news. Their was no separation about doctrine, or denomination, what you wore, who you hung with, what you ate, none of that… Just brothers and sisters with LIFE! A simple gospel, and a simple fellowship.

    Then somewhere in the late 70’s or early 80’s something happened…It was as if someone marched in to the room, and announced a new ownership or new management…

    Next thing you knew that “LIFE” was gone. The simpleness had been replaced with knowledge, creeds, licenses, and labels.

    The life became a routine, a set of doctrines, a denomination, a determined set of do this and don’t do that, and your one of US. BUT the life was gone, it just faded and being a Christian became a vocation, like going to work. Clock in, clock out, do this, do that, read, pray, go to church…

    NO LIFE!!! No fellowship of the spirit…

    All that replaced with a new fellowship, a fellowship based on a likeness of beliefs, a sameness of doctrine…

    God controls everything, even evil. No matter how uncomfortable that makes us it is true. Let me give you an example.

    One day David says to God. “I want to build you a house.” God says “No!” “But you will have a son in the future who will build me my house”.

    This promised son, this son of prophecy, this future son, this spoken word son, this god prophesied son, was Solomon…

    Now watch God fulfill his own word of promise, His own prophetic word to David.

    One day David was overlooking his kingdom, and while on his rooftop, he sees a beautiful woman, bathing herself. David says “who is that woman” his servant says that is Bathsheba, the wife of your servant Uriah. David says “get her for me”. Then they have relations, (fornicate and commit adultery) …

    And from this union surrounded by sin and deceit, comes the eventual birth of this God promised, prophesied, spoken word, son, named Solomon.

    How about Moses, Moses kills a man, so he can meet God at the burning bush.

    Consider this man that Moses killed, this man was at the right place at the right time. What if this man had chosen to take a different path to work, or had an extra cup of tea, or went to visit the pharaoh that day?

    No that man had to be just at the right place at the right time to fulfill God’s plan and promises.

    1. Doug Drake Avatar
      Doug Drake

      Hi Rod,
      That’s quite a testimony. I’m sure it’s just scratching the surface of everything the Lord has taken you through. And like all of us, it’s sounds like there are some tragedies and regret in there but with the ever-present Almighty God inserting Himself into your life. As He does with all of us, He keeps drawing us to Him, despite our desire to walk a different path at times.
      It does sound like me in many ways. I came from a broken home too, but not quite as broken as yours. One such example was when the cops busted into me and my brother’s bedroom to see if we were alive. Our mother had a gun to her head, was on the phone, threatening to end her life.

      I too contemplated ending my life several times but the Lord spoke to me in a clear but unspoken voice. I can’t explain the unexplainable. He let me know that He loved me and had a purpose for me. I didn’t even know who He was or who His Son was. That was before my Calvary Chapel days. Our family was unchurched. Lots of dads or guys spending the night and a bar-hopping alcoholic mom.

      In the ’70s during the “Jesus movement,” I saw and experienced the same brotherly fellowship that you described. It was beautiful and real and was a genuine move of God. I first saw it in Calvary Chapel with Pastor Chuck. Ever since then, churches have tried to mimic it and pretend they were experiencing a similar move of God. But they were often just pretending.

      Now, we are entering a darker time. True fellowship with God will be required to finish the race. All of us will enter eternity with scars. The scars indicate the fierceness of the battles we fought in the war.
      But the most important scars are carried by the one who also carried a cross. Even in heaven, Jesus’ scars will remind us of the hard-fought war and the victory he gained for all of us.

      Thank you, Jesus. I miss my old VW bug and the “Jesus loves you” stickers on the bumper.

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