Jesus had just left the temple for the last time. His disciples asked him two questions about the end. His first word in response was not a timeline, or a sign. It was a warning. Before anything else – before wars, famines, or earthquakes – He said: Take heed that no man deceive you. That was not an accident. Matthew 24 is one of the most significant and most mishandled passages in all of scripture. Today we give it the full weight it deserves.
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Dear Christians… | You MUST Employ Discernment in the Mainstream Church
A lot of people who decide to read the Bible for themselves for the first time quickly realize something uncomfortable, and in many ways disturbing: when it comes to mainstream theology, we’ve been duped.
The institutional church is in the falling away, but it’s happening systematically, and most of us have been looking for the wrong signs.
I want to show you what scholars wrote two hundred years ago, before the drift, and let you decide whether the plain text agrees with what you’ve been taught.
