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Note: Studies include Daniel cf. Revelation.

In the End Times Great Tribulation season, we see an eschatalogical globalization. The world was not united as such since the Tower of Babel, when there was only one tribe and one tongue. Then, in the GT, we see unity in the world again for the first time, but with a multiplicity of tribes and tongues in concert with unity across a wider-spreading geography. Yet, we also see humanity-wide calamity as not has been seen since even before nations existed, implicating the Tower of Babel and before.

These are easy to verify and see in Scripture.

The observation of this study notes, specifically, that, having already experienced global unity with singularity of tribe and language serving the cause of infrastructure construction (the Tower of Babel) which was disrupted with a “language reset”, once the world reaches unity with multiplicity of tribe and language via new infrastructure, civilization goes through a kind of “infrastructural reset”.  · · · →

@Luis_Cataldo had some great quotes at IHOPKC this weekend. It was great and I had to share…

Jesus is into human relationships.

There’s great freedom when we name our stuff and we own our stuff. The invitation to human beings is: There’s freedom in naming your stuff and owning your stuff.

And I think that we just need to go, you know what: I broke it, I bought it.
And most of the time, that’s not a revelation to anybody else, that we’re broken, it’s just a revelation to us.
Other people, especially those closest to us really see it, it’s not a shock to them. And so, when we finally own it, they go, “Yeah.”

Us owning our stuff gives us great freedom.

The goal, particularly with those close relationships, is restoration, it’s not just agreement.

The goal is restoration, it’s not being proven right.

And, I’m 55 and I’ve realized, there’s no delete button on those significant relationships, the really close ones… ’cause the Lord has a way of bringing them back around again.

In business, culture, End Times teaching, sin, Bible study, and many other topics, American Christians seem to be caught up in surviving rather than thriving. Sometimes, Christians teach that we “escape” hardship. Other times, Christians teach that we are “mostly oppressed” during hardship. Rarely do we see a theme of “thriving in the midst” of turmoil. Rarely do we see a theme of “strength in the storm” and “peace within the conflict”. Perhaps our modern theology would be more accurate if we developed our beliefs from tornadoes and tropical storms: The eye is calm.

Whether Pre-Trib Rapture or Post-Trib Rapture theology, Christians seem to presume that the Church is the “surviver” in the End Times rather than the conquerers, who defeat injustice and mass genocide. Most Pre-Trib explanations believe that God’s judgment in the presence of the Church would be “punishing the Church”. But those teachers forget that Israel was in Egypt during the plagues, though Israel did not experience the plagues.  · · · →