Tipping Point Week in Review (4.8.23)
A look back at the first week of April 2023 - Free Version
t’s almost Easter! I have a special Easter article ready for tomorrow, but wanted to use today to wrap up the posts and events of the past week. Enjoy!
Sunday, April 2, 2023
At the Rapture, Your Identity Will Be Clear • I wrote a little about the early Christian writer John Bunyan, who is known for the book Pilgrim’s Progress. Bunyan struggled for most of his life with doubt and anxiety. As a pastor, I can relate to that—and so can almost any honest believer. In this article, I talked about Paul’s message in the Book of Romans about our worth as children of God, and about how all doubt will cease at the moment of the Rapture.
I also shared several passages from Scripture that reassure us as believers, and closed with this:
These encouraging messages from Scripture ensure us that God loves us and that we belong to Him. While we can know these truths intellectually and trust the words of the Bible, I realize that sometimes we don’t always feel this in our hearts. That’s because we are humans and we are ruled by our emotions. Emotions are fickle and transitory. They can change day-to-day. But the Word of God is forever. It never changes.
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Tipping Point Show • On the first day of the Jewish Passover, I shared this video teaching from my book Look Up!, about how our final redemption includes redemption of the body—and how that includes redeemed pleasure. Did you know the name “Eden” from the Garden of Eden means “pleasure and delight”? God didn’t intend for us ever to experience pain—and some day, we never will again.
I also answer questions from subscribers about some fascinating topics, including why we will have physical rather than spiritual bodies in heaven, and about the end-times “kings” mentioned in Revelation.
Punta de Quiebra • In this teaching on our Spanish-language version of Tipping Point, pastor Luis Roman talks about the rise of artificial intelligence chatbots and the alarming innovations they are introducing within our society. How much should we be worried about AI, ChatGPT, and other technologies? Could the Antichrist use AI to achieve world domination?
Please share this with any Spanish-speaking friends and family.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Marking the End Times • Pastor Mark Hitchcock has a timely teaching this week about Psalm 11 and what it says about the crumbling foundations in our culture and society. What can the righteous do about it? What is the role of a Christian in a collapsing, sinful culture?
He also answers some really interesting questions from subscribers, including one about the twelve tribes of Israel and the exclusion of the tribe of Dan among the 144,000 witnesses who evangelize for God during the Tribulation. He also explores a final question about whether Ukraine could be in the list of Gog-Magog invaders of Israel, as detailed in Ezekiel 38.
Tipping Point Quick Hits • This week’s Quick Hits article explores three news stories with significant end-times connections. First, Christians in Israel are under attack. Is the newly powerful hardline government giving cover to anti-Christian extremists? Since I wrote this on Thursday, even more violence has erupted in Israel, as Israel has made strikes against the militant Palestinian group Hamas in Lebanon and Gaza following a rocket attack. Unfortunately, Easter weekend is going to be a very tense time in Israel.
In another news item, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei used a special Ramadan address to celebrate what he calls the “collapse” of Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms. Israel’s enemies are seeing the chaos within Israel as a sign of weakness and vulnerability. Israel’s defensive attacks against Hamas over the last few days may be a way for her leaders to change that narrative of weakness.
Finally, NASA has detected an unusual group of sunspots, which represent one of several strange phenomena on the surface of the sun recently. These could lead to a superflare, or coronal mass ejection. Could the trumpet events of Revelation 8 be caused by such a solar flare?
NASA has launched detection satellites that monitor coronal mass ejections, hoping to give the government a few hours’ notice if a catastrophic flare is coming our way. I’m not sure that will be enough time to prepare. In fact, the only way to prepare is to give your heart to Jesus now—and make sure those you love have done the same.
Friday, April 7, 2023
Friday Q&A: Has Every Ear Heard? • Does everyone on earth have to hear the Gospel message before the Rapture? This is an important question and one where there’s a lot of disagreement among end-times scholars and teachers. Personally, I agree that the Gospel will ultimately be delivered to everyone on earth by the end of the Tribulation. And while I hope everyone will have the opportunity to hear the message of salvation before the Rapture, I believe all the prophetic events that need to happen before the Rapture have already happened. It can happen at any moment!
Some important context:
When Jesus says that the gospel will be preached in all the world and “then the end will come,” He is not talking about the Rapture. The Rapture is not the end. When the Rapture happens, there are still seven more years of Tribulation.
After Jesus proclaims that the gospel will be preached into all the world, He then immediately talks about the Abomination of Desolation that will happen during the Tribulation.
I hope you’ll read the full Q&A.
I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend, and be sure to look for my article tomorrow. Don’t forget: My book, Look Up! is available at the XO Marriage store and on Amazon.
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