According to the Prophet Isaiah, the unexpected light that would suddenly appear in the land of darkness—“Galilee of the nations”—would also be inextinguishable (Isaiah 9:1-2). Contrary to popular opinion, darkness does not overcome light, but light overcomes darkness. All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the tiniest little light. No wonder the Apostle John portrayed Christ—the Light of the World—as not only piercing the darkness, but also as being impervious to it (John 1:5).

As the army of God, suited up in “the armor of light” (Romans 13:12), the church needs to charge into the darkness of this world. For too long now we’ve cowered in the corner of our sanctuaries ...

The king of Assyria, Tiglath-pilesser, took Galilee away from Israel in the year 733 B.C. The road across Galilee was transformed into a highway for Assyrian caravans, and Galilee itself derisively dubbed “Galilee of the Gentiles.” Through no fault of their own, the Galileans found themselves disdained by their fellow countrymen for dwelling among the heathen, a disdain still evident in the days of our Lord (John 1:46; 7:52). 

According to the ancient Prophet Isaiah, Galilee, a place of great distress in his day, would one day be the place from which deliverance would come. This place of darkness would be transformed into a place of light. The light would be unexpected and sudden. It would abruptly flash expelling ...

Genesis 3:15 is the first Messianic promise in the Bible. It is also the first shot fired in the Battle of the Ages. From this point forward the Bible tells the tale of conflict between the serpent and the seed of the woman.

The serpent is obviously Satan, as Scripture makes abundantly clear (Revelation 12:9; 20:2). The seed of the woman, however, is a curious distinction that demands explanation.

Everyone with a rudimentary understanding of basic biology knows that the man provides the seed in human reproduction. The woman provides the egg. Yet, the promised seed of Genesis 3:15 is designated as the seed of the woman rather than the seed of the man. What possible explanation can there be for such an inexplicable and ...

There is a flip side to the doctrine of the Incarnation. Unfortunately, it is little known and seldom taught. If God lived among men in the man Christ Jesus, then, it must be possible for God to live in men. The doctrine of the Incarnation not only teaches us that God became a man in Christ, but also of the possibility of God living in Christians.

Having once lived in this world in the physical body of Christ, God now lives in this world in the spiritual body of Christ. The spiritual body of Christ is the church (Ephesians 1:22-23). The church is comprised of all Spirit indwelt, born again believers. God lives in the world today in the physical bodies of believers, who in turn makeup the spiritual body of Christ (1 Corinthians 6:19...

If I was an unbeliever—someone unconvinced by divine revelation of the absolute truth of the Christian faith—the greatest doctrinal stumbling block for me would undoubtedly be the doctrine of the Incarnation. The Incarnation is to me the most astonishing truth in all of Scripture. The Creator we read about at the beginning of the Old Testament is the baby that we read about at the beginning of the New Testament. 

At the heart of the Gospel is this astounding truth: God became a man in the man Christ Jesus.  Although I readily admit the difficulty of getting one’s head around this incredible doctrine, I spurn the world’s reproach of Christians for embracing it. After all, what right does this world ...

The Apostle John predicted that the spirit of antichrist, which was already in the world in his day, would continue to grow in the world until it finally crest and broke over the whole end-time earth (1 John 4:3). That our antichrist world is becoming increasingly possessed with the spirit of antichrist, as the Bible predicts, is made obvious today by the expeditious rise of antisemitism and anti-Christianity throughout our world. All over the world today, open season is being declared on God's people, both His chosen people—Israel and the Jews—and His elect people—the church and Christians. While no other persecution is permitted against any other religion, Judaism and Christianity may be persecuted with impunity. ...

Let me begin this Wilderness Voice, which will undoubtedly prove to be controversial, with a caveat. I am not a premillennial dispensationalist, though I used to be, before I was constrained by the Holy Spirit to stop trying to make what the Bible says fit into my beliefs and to start making my beliefs fit into what the Bible says. Although I love my premillennial dispensationalist brothers and sisters in Christ, I'm absolutely convinced, by both the Holy Scripture and the Holy Spirit, that they don't have a Biblical leg to stand on when it comes to their end-time theory. Granted, many premillennial dispensationalists have labeled me a heretic for leaving their camp, as though I've deserted Christian orthodoxy by doing so. Still......

On this Halloween, I’d like to write about some haunting things. I’m not talking about ghosts and goblins, because there are none, but some real things that really haunt people. 

First and foremost, there is the fear of death. There is probably nothing that haunts men more than the fear of death. Death is a certainty. If Jesus tarries, your final appointment, your appointment with death, is one you will keep (Hebrews 9:27). Furthermore, on the day of death, you will have no other option but to die, regardless of your cholesterol count, the amount of fiber in your diet, how many vitamins you take, and how much time you have logged at the health spa or on the treadmill (Ecclesiastes 8:8). There are, as Ben Franklin ...

The word "tolerance" has undergone quite a transformation in recent times. When I was growing up it meant believing that everyone had an equal right to their opinion, even if they were wrong. However, it now means believing that every opinion is equally right. If you dare to believe that your belief is right, and that the differing beliefs of others are wrong, then, you are excoriated in today's world as intolerant. Of course, this means that you really can't believe anything anymore, except that all opinions are equally right and none are wrong, not even if they're nutty.

Not only have we redefined the meaning of tolerance in today's America, but we've also rewritten our history. For instance, few .........

I'm sorry, but you'll have to excuse me from the earth-encircling euphoria over the announced Gaza peace deal. This deal, negotiated with the bloodthirsty genocidal maniacs of Hamas, is, in my humble opinion, not worth the paper it is printed on. I don't say this lightly, but for good reason, which I'll endeavor to prove in this Time Capsule. To start with, however, I'll share a trio of end-time Bible prophesies. First, Jesus guaranteed us that there will be wars and rumors of wars right up to the end of time (Matthew 24:6). Second, the Prophet Zechariah predicted that Jerusalem would be a cup of trembling placed at the lips of an end-time world (Zechariah 12:2). Third, the Prophet Jeremiah warned us not to be ...