January 1st, 2009
On this blog I will write the latest news articles and how they may relate to biblical prophecy. I welcome comments but I will delete any profane language that may be used in them. However the comment itself (sans profanity) will be posted whether of a supportive or unsupportive nature as long as it pertains to the article I wrote. You can enter my main website at www.evenatthedoors.com. If you wish to comment on any article I have on my website you will find them listed in the sidebar on the right side of the page. After reading any article you may return to the homepage of my blog by clicking on the photo at the top of every page…
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September 11th, 2011
(September 11, 2011) It is heart-wrenching watching the documentaries about that tragic day ten years ago that became known as 9/11. As Pearl Harbor changed the world in 1941 and led to a World War so too 9/11 brought a worldwide war on terrorism. Approximately 2400 persons died at Pearl Harbor while nearly 3000 died on 9/11. World War II lasted seven years and resulted in the deaths of more than sixty million people. The War on Terror continues to this day and will continue as long as there are Islamic fundamentalists willing to kill innocent people to achieve their goal of the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate.
The problem is that the world sees this war in a temporal manner and how it affects the world. While we mourn with those who mourn, there is a deeper issue than the current state of geopolitical and “georeligious” affairs. Wars of all kinds have been fought since the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden. Death and destruction have always been part of the human experience. The lesson to be learned is not how to solve the current state of global affairs but rather how each individual person reacts to the life God has given them. Jesus Himself made this point…
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Tags: 9/11, Jesus second coming, salvation
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May 15th, 2011
(May 15, 2011) I believe every generation since Jesus Christ walked the earth has believed they were living in the End-Times. The Thessalonian Church of the First Century was worried that their fellow Christians who had died would miss the second coming of Jesus Christ. Millennial fervor swept through elements of Christendom leading up to the year 1000 A.D. (here is a website with a list of apocalyptic dates in history) The current generation is no different from previous ones when it comes to some sort of Apocalyptic Fever. Last week someone at my job asked me about the news story stating that Jesus Christ would return on May 21, 2011. They had heard the women on the television show The View discussing it. Later in the week I heard the following commercial on one of our local secular radio stations:
It is amazing to me that Christians continue to set dates about the return of Jesus Christ…
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Tags: Apocalypse, Apocalyptic Fever, date setting, Harold Camping, Jesus second coming, Matthew 24, May 21 2011, Mayan Prophecy, Millerites, The Rapture
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May 9th, 2011
(May 9, 2011) With the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden this past week, there are two Islamic concepts that the non-Muslim world needs to understand. Before discussing those concepts I want to comment on the death of Osama Bin Laden.
The Death of Osama Bin Laden
Late last Sunday night, May 1st, I was on the Internet while watching television when I saw the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. I switched to a news channel to find out what had happened. President Obama was in the middle of telling the nation that the American military had tracked down and killed Bin Laden. After his announcement, the television showed imagesof Americans celebrating in Times Square and in front of the White House. As I watched these celebratory gatherings they did not feel right to me. The first thing I thought of were the images of the Arabs around the Middle East celebrating the 9/11 attacks on America. It also struck me that Osama Bin Laden did not make it to the tenth anniversary of those attacks. From a worldly perspective I can understand the celebrations by Americans as all of our lives have been changed since that September day nearly ten years ago. However, I saw the events of last Sunday night from a biblical viewpoint. God makes it clear that governments are to protect their citizens from evil: “1 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. 3 For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; 4 for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.” (Romans 13:1-4)…
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Tags: Abrahamic Covenant, Dar al-Harb, Dar al-Islam, Davidic Covenant, House of Islam, House of War, Islamic Terrorism, Israel, Jesus Christ, Middle East peace, Muslims, New Covenant, osama bin laden, Romans 13, Second Coming, terrorism
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April 28th, 2011
(April 28, 2011) Yesterday, I heard the most disturbing thing I’ve ever heard on the radio. If what follows disturbs you then maybe God is trying to work in your heart as He is in mine.
American Family Radio (AFR) conducted an interview with Kimberly L. Smith, president and co-founder of Make Way Partners. During the interview, Mrs. Smith said that she had been an executive with a company making a six-figure salary. She and her husband had been living the American dream with homes, beautiful children, and all the accompanying material possessions. She had been very active in her church and doing church activities. Yet there was a great emptiness in her life. She kept crying out to God and finally got to the point where she prayed that God would either use her or take her out. He answered her prayer one day when she was on her way to work. He spoke to her through what she calls a “mental movie”. In this movie she saw a Mack truck plow through her car and she flew through the windshield and landed on the pavement dead. God showed her that all she thought she had been achieving was being burned up like hay and stubble. God was working in her husband’s heart also and so they, in their forties, sold their home, gave away their possessions, and went to Spain and eventually Sudan. She said that while they were in Portugal they saw a six year-old boy who had been prostituted. What she said next is even more horrifying! In these places where human trafficking takes place, children of this same age are kept in stalls and rarely allowed to leave. Adults pay to go into these stalls where they sexually and physically abuse these little children. She said that these little children can have as many as thirty sex acts a day with these adults. The evil involved here is abominable, right out of hell. I want you to do what I did after hearing this. Imagine what it would be like to be one of these little innocent children or imagine your children or nieces and nephews in this situation…
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Tags: Child slavery, Evil, Human Trafficking, Kimberly L. Smith, Make Way Partners, Passport through Darkness, Sex Trade, Slave Trade
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April 22nd, 2011
(Good Friday – April 22, 2011) God has revealed His purposes and His will for Creation in the Bible. The reason He created the universe and humankind is stated in the Book of Revelation: “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.” (Revelation 4:11) We were created because it was God’s pleasurable will to create us in His image and to fellowship with Him. That God has a plan for the universe and humankind is revealed by Him through the prophet Isaiah: “9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.” (Isaiah 46:9-10) The plan begins with Adam and Eve in Genesis and ends (or begins again) with eternity in Revelation. Because He gave His human creations free will in relating to Him and because humans chose sin over God’s ways, His plan included corrective measures. Knowing that humans would disobey Him and turn from Him, there are three great deliverances that God ordained for humankind from before the foundation of the earth. Two of these have already occurred and the third is yet in the future. Each of these deliverances has a common aspect to them. The darkness of God’s judgment preceded the light which radiated from each of these redemptive acts…
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Tags: 5th bowl judgment, Abraham, crucifixion, darkness, deliverance, Easter, eleventh plague, Empty Tomb, God's judgment, God's plan, Jesus Christ, lake of fire, light, Moses, Passover, resurrection, Second Coming
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April 17th, 2011
(April 17, 2011) Fourteen days ago I posted an article called The Great Apostasy and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in which I discuss the prophesied apostasy from the Christian faith that is to occur in the last days. One month before that I posted an article titled Rob Bell: False teachings about Hell and God’s judgment about a popular pastor’s teaching that the orthodox doctrine of Hell is in error. This week, Time magazine’s cover asks the question What if there is no HELL? The cover article is relevant to these two articles I wrote. (You can also watch an April 15th CNN interview of Rob Bell here)
Easter Season=Annual anti-Christian Media bias
Before discussing the Time article I want to point out that it seems every Easter there is some story in the Media which has a anti-Christian slant to it…
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Tags: 2 Thessalonians 2, apostasy, false teaching, Media Bias, Rob Bell
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April 9th, 2011
(April 9, 2011) “4 Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:4-5)
With His first coming Jesus Christ fulfilled hundreds of Old Testament prophecies concerning God’s promise to send a suffering Messiah to die for the sins of the world. Likewise, Jesus will fulfill all the prophecies concerning the coming of the victorious Messiah in the End-Times. I believe this passage in Isaiah is the most important prophecy God gave to humanity because it promises that humankind will be reconciled to the Him through His Messiah. A few years ago I wrote an article titled “Did Jesus only suffer physically during His crucifixion?” for my original website at iesouschristos.com ( have recently changed the content of this site). With this article I was hoping to illustrate the enormity of what actually occurred to Jesus while He was on the cross. As you will see, I calculated the number of sins in a very unscientific manner (albeit a mathematical one) and the result is staggering. It helped me understand why only the incarnate God of the universe was able to accomplish the salvation of humankind. He had to take every sin ever committed or that will be committed by human beings onto Himself. Mel Gibson illustrates this truth at the beginning of his movie The Passion of the Christ where Satan is tempting Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Satan says to Him, “Do you really believe that one man can bear the full burden of sin? No one man can carry this burden, I tell you. It is far too heavy. Saving their souls is too costly. No-one. Ever. No. Never.” Thankfully the Devil was wrong and Jesus did accomplish God’s will for Him by bearing our sins on the cross and reconciling humankind to their Heavenly Father and Creator. In a couple of weeks Christians will be observing Good Friday, the day Jesus was crucified. Hopefully this article will help you to observe this Day with a more spiritual understanding of what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross…
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April 3rd, 2011
(April 3, 2011) “8 When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8) I believe this is one of the most intriguing things Jesus said during His earthly ministry. To whom was He directing this question? Was He trying to motivate the Disciples to spread the faith? No, He knew they were going to preach the gospel throughout the Roman Empire and lead many to faith in Him (Luke 21:12-15). Was He trying to motivate future generations which would include us to spread the faith? No, because in Matthew 24:14 He stated as a fact that the gospel would be preached in all the world and then the end would come. Or was He asking a rhetorical question of Himself? I believe that He indeed was making a statement with this question indicating that true faith would be lacking on earth when He returns again. The context of this question begins in the last section of chapter 17 of Luke where He describes His second coming. He immediately follows this with a parable of the Unjust Judge and persistent prayer in the first seven verses of chapter 18. The meaning of this parable is that His followers should be persistently praying that His kingdom would come without further delay. He concludes this parable by asking if He will find faith on earth when He does come again. The answer to this question lies in biblical prophecy…
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Tags: 2 Thessalonians 2, 2 Timothy, Antichrist, apostasy, false teaching, heresy, Jesus Christ, modern Church, Second Coming, The Rapture
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March 27th, 2011
(March 20, 2011) Jehovah, the God of the people of the Book, declares through His prophet Isaiah: “1 The oracle concerning Egypt: Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt; The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them…23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. 24 In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.” (Isaiah 19:1-4,18-25)
This prophecy is speaking of the End-Times when the Antichrist (“a cruel master, and a mighty king will rule over them”) comes to power and subjugates Egypt under his oppressive reign. However, God will send them a Savior and He will deliver Egypt from the Antichrist. The Book makes it clear that this Savior is Jesus the Messiah who is called Isa in the Qur’an and whom Christian Arabs call Yasu…
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Tags: Allah, Bible, Egypt, God, Isaiah, Islam, Israel, Jesus Christ, Jews, Mary, Muhammad, Muslims, Qur'an, salvation, Syria
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March 13th, 2011
(March 13, 2011) In certain segments of the modern Church there is a misunderstanding and sometimes a denial of the biblical revelation of God’s nature. Some of those segments believe that traditional evangelicalism is ineffective or at least falls short in meeting the needs of the modern world. I suppose a case could be made that this is true of every generation since the Church’s formation two thousand years ago. It is true that Christians should be living the gospel of Jesus Christ and not just preaching it. The Books of James and 1 John among others talk about showing your faith to others by helping those in physical need as well as spiritual need. The problem as I see it is that experience, sentimentality, and relativity triumph over the truth of God’s word within areas of the modern Church. We love our neighbors by not offending them with the truth about complete salvation in Jesus Christ. If they are of a different religion, who are we to tell them their beliefs are wrong? Why not worship and pray together with them regardless of their religions? And certainly we have to stress only the love of God and never His judgment of sin or sinners! Of course the Bible reveals God’s love for His human creations. He loved the world so much that He sent His Son to die for it. He wants His love to spread throughout the world among His human creations and makes it clear that this is accomplished by His children loving one another, “34 A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.” (John 13:34-35) (Incidentally, disagreeing with someone is not necessarily unloving them). I could quote hundreds if not thousands of scriptures which speak of God’s love. However, that isn’t the problem within these segments of the modern Church. They apparently overwhelm their listeners with the subject of love and tolerance. It seems though that they neglect to talk very much, if at all, about the consequences of sin and a sinful lifestyle nor of a righteous God who is unable to tolerate sin in His Holy Presence (Hebrews 12:29). The purpose of this post is to illustrate two aspects of the nature of God…
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Tags: God's judgment, God's nature, God's Word, Jesus Christ, Kinsman Redeemer, modern Church, sin
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