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 2)
Preface
For you to get the most out of reading this book, you need to believe that Jesus is Lord and the Bible is the word of God. Beyond that, you also need to have previously read three other books I have written…or else have come to the conclusions they present on your own. Either way is fine with me.
- The Biblical Case for Everyone Going to Heaven (1993) – This book is not about my thoughts or feelings about who goes to heaven. Rather, it is what the Bible says happens when we die. Specifically, all human beings go to heaven. It wasn’t always this way; the Bible says all human beings used to go somewhere else. Jesus changed that. This book does not go into detail about what we do once we get to heaven. Rather, its focus is exclusively on heaven as the destination to which our lives on earth will take us. In other words, Jesus has solved the problem of sin and death. For everyone.
- The Implications of Everyone Going to Heaven (1994) – This book dispels the false notion some people get when they think about everyone going to heaven – that it means how you live no longer matters. On the contrary, that everyone is going to heaven is all the more reason we should hunger and thirst for righteousness. Genuine, heartfelt, and lifelong repentance does us good on earth while we’re here…and can grant us a better placement in heaven than we’d otherwise receive. Everyone going to heaven is cause for rejoicing and repentance!
- The Biblical Case for the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact (1993) – This book explains how Jesus’ Second Coming occurred late in the 1st century AD – that is, before His generation completely passed away. This should be no surprise because it is the timetable He and His disciples gave us. However, our failure to believe them has left us spiritually blind. This book takes those blinders off…for those who are willing to believe.
Again, you do not have to read these books if you already hold these convictions and have these understandings. To be specific, if you believe that everyone is going to heaven, that this is cause for both rejoicing and repentance, and that the Second Coming happened late in the 1st century when Jesus and His apostles said it would, then you are prepared to read this book. Otherwise, you should first read those three books before tackling this one.
These convictions and understandings I have identified matter because they will give you the conceptual space to digest all that is presented in The Implications of the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact. In other words, everything I have written in this book builds on the foundation laid by those concepts. Make sure that foundation is strong before you attempt to build on it with the convictions and understandings you’ll find in this book.
To put these prerequisite matters in the most general of terms, you have to be a certain kind of person to read and benefit from this book. To be specific, you have to be the kind of person who’s willing to follow Jesus and the Bible even if the whole world is going a different direction. As the old song says…
I have decided to follow Jesus… No turning back. No turning back...
The world behind me, the cross before me… No turning back. No turning back...
Though none go with me, still I will follow. No turning back. No turning back...
If that’s your song, you’ll be singing it all the way through this book.
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