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’s Reading)
The Implications of the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact
(Book Installment 1)
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Scope of the Second Coming
Chapter 1 – References to the Second Coming
Chapter 2 – Dichotomies of the Second Coming
Chapter 3 – Themes of the Second Coming
The Plan Behind the Second Coming
Chapter 4 – The Predetermined Plan
Implication One: Victory Is Won
Chapters ?
Implication Two: God Is One
Chapters?
Implication Three: His Church Is Done
Chapters?
Implication Four: His Kingdom Has Come
Chapters?
Implication Five: Life Is One-on-One
Chapters?
Implication Six: We’ve Only Just Begun
Chapters?
I expect there to be at least 25-30 chapters overall. I only have the first four mapped out so far, but that constitutes the first 59 daily installments. Each installment of this book will be about 500 words, meaning it will take you about three minutes to read. I also am going to try to record an audio version for each installment (see the link above). While reading the installment aloud, I’m going to sprinkle the reading with explanatory comments if and as seems appropriate. Because of this, and because its takes longer to read aloud than silently, the audio length will probably be four to eight minutes. Summed up, if you want to read the installment, it should never take you more than 5 minutes (and usually 3 or less); if you prefer to listen to it, it should never take you more than 10 (and usually 8 or less).
Although much in this book will address subjects you’ve seen me write on before, they will be newly organized and integrated. I hope you’ll find that helpful. But there are also a couple a major new themes in the book that I have not previously addressed. Let me say more about those.
First, “The Predetermined Plan” is something I’ve simply called “the Messianic Project” in the past. What’s new is that in the last year, I’ve gained a much clearer perception of how that plan was fully determined in advance, executed in stages, and revealed in separate stages. The plan was fully completed when the Second Coming was accomplished, and is relevant to all of the six implications I address. After outlining the plan near the beginning of the book, I’ll show how it helps explain each implication one by one.
Second, what’s also new to me in the last year, I understand a lot more of how the Bible explains that “God Is One.” When I first became a believer in Jesus in 1978, I believed the Trinity because that’s what the people who led me to the Lord told me to believe. Sometime between 2010 and 2015, I had read and studied enough of the Bible on my own to recognize that the Trinity was not so, and, even more importantly, that it obscured Christ. What I began writing about this at that time became a book in 2023: 300 Reasons to Worship Christ and Not a Trinity. Also, between 2010-2015, I came to see that God had become an angel in order to become a man in order to become an angel again in order to become God again – a descent and ascent. In other words, what’s new in this book is not new or changed conclusions – only greater detail and confirmation of things I’ve been writing about for years.
I am very excited about sharing these things with you – things new and old – in this book. They will strengthen your faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible. And that’s what matters to me more than anything else.
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