Finding Jesus in the Bible…So We Can Follow Him in Life
Bible Reading Plans
- Plan One: New Testament Only
- Plan Two: New Testament + Psalms
- Plan Three: New Testament + History
- Plan Four: The Entire Bible – Year 1 of 3, Year 2 of 3, Year 3 of 3
Don’t know which plan? Go to A Christ-Centered Bible Reading Plan: Quick Start.
Extras
Verse of the Day, Audio Capsule, and Video Minute
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Today is a transition day between the last installment of the essay series “YHWH in the Intertestamental Period” and the first installment of… I’ll get to that in a minute.
Most of you know that I had initially intended to follow up “YHWH in the Old Testament” and “YHWH in the Intertestamental Period” with “YHWH in the New Testament.” I have decided, however, to put off the New Testament view for the time being, because I finally have the clarity for how to move forward that I have been struggling for days on end to achieve. This clarity has me very excited!
To set the stage for where we’re going, let me give you a little history. I wrote the book The Biblical Case for Everyone Going to Heaven in 1993 and its sequel The Implications of Everyone Going to Heaven in 1994. I also wrote the book The Biblical Case for the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact in 1993, but I did not write a sequel to it. I have never even given much thought to doing so…until now.
What I have come to realize is that most of the ideas I have struggled to frame and structure in recent days are ones that logically belong in a book titled The Implications of the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact. In fact, they fit so well I’m shocked that this didn’t occur to be before now. But God knows I’ve never been a quick learner.
The structure of The Implications of the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact will be:
- God is one,
- His church is done,
- because His kingdom has come.
God Is One
This part of the book will explain how the Second Coming resolved the duality of “God and Jesus,” “Father and Son,” and so on that is seen everywhere in the New Testament without requiring us to believe the philosophical nonsense that God is multiple persons in one being.
His Church Is Done
This part of the book will explain how Jesus always intended His church to be a one-generation phenomenon, which is why the apostles were a one-generation phenomenon. The church we have today is man-made…and it shows.
His Kingdom Has Come
This part of the book will explain how the kingdom of God has operated since the 2nd century until now…and will continue to operate into eternity future. Judgment is upon us, but fewer people seem to recognize it.
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This new book is particularly exciting to me because I will be dealing with things in the Bible I have pointed out for years, but now have much more detail to share about how these concepts from God work and how they are integrated with each other. The book will thus give you a lot more biblical understanding of why churchgoing is inferior to Bible reading and how church interferes with the kingdom of God, as well as why Christ, rather than a trinity, is the way God wants us to think of Him.
We will prepare the way for this new book by reading – or re-reading as the case may be – The Biblical Case for the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact. I will continue to shoot for a 3-minute daily read time for each installment, with 5 minutes being the maximum. After going through these two books (one old, the other new), you and I are going to have a better understanding of God’s mind on these subjects than we have ever had before.
As for the “YHWH in the New Testament” essay series that I’m putting off for the time being, that’s one of the subjects I’ll be addressing in the “God is One” section of the new book. If my coverage of that subject turns out to be sufficiently thorough, there’ll be no need for me to write an essay series on it; otherwise, that essay series will be my next installment writing project after we finish these two books.
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