Temple Turmoil–Bringing Back Animal Sacrifices?
Ezekiel’s future-coming-temple prophecy and its resumption of animal sacrifices, which are described in magnificent detail and with precise specifications in his chapters 40-46, has divided the Church for almost two centuries and counting. This prophecy is termed “difficult” and “not easy to read and interpret” by many commentators. Two conflicting views contest its…
READ MORE →My Next Book
Just sent my next book to the printer. It’s titled — “Unraveling the End: A balanced scholarly synthesis of four competing and conflicting end-time views.” Should have books in about three weeks. But here’s the first review: “A terrific and needed read . . . extremely interesting. . . . Noe offers a detailed and…
READ MORE →‘The Blessed Hope’ Problem
A widely misunderstood verse is “The Blessed Hope” verse spoken of only in Titus 2:13. Why so? It’s because it is mistranslated in most Bibles—“while we wait for the blessed hope – the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ . . .” (NIV, KJV). Grammatically, the correct translation (as…
READ MORE →Was Jude a Liar?
Below are some of the many and varied responses to my prior blog “Who’s in Error?” I agree with your description, and that “their faith” was delivered 100% in the first century, so if it wasn’t, and we’re still waiting for that to be fulfilled, then Jude is a liar. (Joseph) I would…
READ MORE →Who’s in Error?
“There are yet some things to be fulfilled in our future.” This is a response I received during a Facebook thread this week discussing Bible prophecy. How would you have responded? Here’s my reply. “If there are yet some things to be fulfilled in our future, then our faith has NOT been ‘once for all…
READ MORE →I’m Back! I Made It!
Yes, I’m back from my latest great adventure – a week-long, wilderness, canoe, camping, portaging, mosquito-fighting, fish-catching, bonding-making trip to northern Minnesota with my son and three teenage grandsons. If you haven’t read my prior blog about this trip, see below. Here’s what one of the teaching pastors at the mega-church I attend…
READ MORE →Off on a Great Adventure
For the next two weeks I’ll be backwater canoeing, portaging, fishing, and wilderness camping with my son and three of my teenage grandsons. It’s a “man vs. wild” kind of thing! We’re headed 800 miles north to Ely, Minnesota, and the backwater canoe country (we call it ca-noe – get it?), and crossing…
READ MORE →Critical Objections to Purging the ‘Second Coming’
(Objection #1): “To me you are quibbling over whether it is called his second (Heb. 9:28) or some other number, is really to miss the important point that all prophecy was fulfilled in A.D. 70.” (Objection #2): By setting Jesus’ A.D. 70 parousia as just one coming among many comings (even though you allow…
READ MORE →Purging the ‘Second Coming’
Here’s how one author explained it to me — for the reason he continues to use “second coming” language, even though he knows better. “It’s a term I have adopted with some degree of uneasiness in order to connect to a popular audience,” he relayed. But I ask you, isn’t this using error to…
READ MORE →Are the ‘Gates of Hell’ Prevailing?
In Matthew 16:18 Jesus proclaimed: “And I say also unto thee, That thou are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (KJV) Jesus’ words here seem pretty clear, don’t they? Then why is so much of the church (here in…
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