What is Iran’s future after the invasion according to the Bible? Join guest Amir Tsarfati and hosts Tim Moore and Nathan Jones of the Lamb & Lion Ministries evangelism team as they share their Prophetic Perspectives
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Jack Hibbs, Senior and Founding Pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, offers a biblical perspective on the Middle East conflict and contemplates how Christians may respond and pray for Israel and other nations involved.
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U.S. forces sink Iranian naval vessels as Israel pounds Tehran and Hezbollah targets. Major escalation unfolds across the Middle East. What this means for regional security, global stability, and whether a wider war is coming. Critical updates and analysis.
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With America and Israel – along with some Western allies and even some Arab/Muslim states – moving full steam ahead to rid the beleaguered Iranian population of the hated tyrannical Islamist regime, there is again a lot of discussion about notions of ‘regime change’ and the like.
There are many ways to assess this issue: politically, historically, legally, militarily, morally, philosophically, even theologically. Writing as a Christian primarily to other Christians, what might be said about this – at least in part from a biblical perspective?
Well, the first thing to be said is this: there is plenty of regime change to be found in the Bible – certainly in the Old Testament. First and foremost, there is the case of ancient Israel taking the Promised Land. Obviously other peoples were living there before this took place.
But this conquest was all part of the good plan of God. Indeed, a full 400 years before the taking of Canaan, God had told Abram in Genesis 15:13-16 why and when it was going to happen:
Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.
The wickedness of the Canaanite people would get to a place where Yahweh would finally judge them, using the Israelites as his chosen means. And other nations would be toppled as well over the centuries, all to fulfil the plans and purposes of God. So whether it was Assyria or Babylon or other nations, regime change happened plenty of times.
Of course just because God has done something does not necessarily mean that we should go and do the same. But the point is this: such regime change is not inherently evil and immoral if God is willing to do it. Sure, we might engage in this action for wrong reasons or with wrong motives or with wrong means, and so on. But it CAN be a morally licit thing to do at times.
And since we are speaking now primarily of America under Trump, we can say that some past cases of regime change have been very good things indeed – despite what a few nutter isolationists and characters like Tucker Carlson now say. Getting rid of Hitler and the Nazis and the barbaric Japanese tyrants was certainly a good thing.
And that was indeed real regime change. Both nations not only had their previous ruling regimes toppled, but new governments were installed and even new constitutions were put in place. I – and millions of others – much prefer the Germany and Japan of today than what they were like before this regime change occurred.
Do all nations have a right to exist and to self-defence?
Plenty more questions arise here. One might better rephrase the question I just asked like this: Are all governments and rulers legitimate? Even that question needs careful answering. Obviously, God thought the wicked Canaanites HAD lost their right to rule and defend themselves. So God ousted them by means of his own people – even though they were not morally pristine.
The examples I just mentioned from WWII are also pretty clear cases of evil regimes that have lost their legitimacy to exist. The principles of just war theory and the like came into play there. Stopping murderous, imperialist regimes from raping and pillaging entire peoples and killing millions of innocent civilians was a morally legitimate war aim – a legitimate case of regime change.
Sure, that does not mean that the ‘good guys’ always get it right. Again, sticking with America, not all their actions in this regard have always been good and helpful. The two usual cases brought up by the critics are Iraq and Afghanistan. In reply, I think it can be said that a case could be made as to why those regimes there had to go.
But HOW this was done and the follow-up to it certainly can be questioned and criticised. Mistakes were certainly made, and many outcomes were far from ideal. But Trump was not part of either one! So in this sense, we can point out some clear differences with the operations in Iran today. This nation has been terrorising its own people, its neighbours, and the world for 47 years.
When the evil rulers there said year in and year out that the wanted to destroy America and the West, it was worth taking them seriously. When the Iranian leadership repeatedly swore to annihilate the ‘Little Satan’ Israel and the ‘Great Satan’ America, ignoring such talk was NOT a wise way to proceed.
And given how furiously they were working on their plans to develop nuclear weapons to carry out their dire threats, there was a very real case indeed to take action against Iran – especially since 8 months of attempts by the Trump administration to negotiation with them proved to be futile.
So to seek to neutralise this rogue state and the world’s worst state sponsor of global terrorism was a legitimate and worthwhile goal. Whether this military operation lasts a few more weeks or even a month is a moot point. We hope and pray that American, Israeli and civilian casualties are kept to a minimum. But in war, sadly, some people will always get hurt.
And as Trump has been clearly stating, once these military objectives are reached, then the Iranians can decide for themselves how things should pan out. There is no intention of having US soldiers on the ground there, or to have a protracted process of democratisation or ‘Americanisation’. As JD Vance just recently told Jesse Watters on Fox News, there will be no “forever war”. He said this:
The president has CLEARLY defined what he wants to accomplish, and there’s just no way … that Donald Trump is going to allow this country to get into a multi-year conflict with no clear end in sight and no clear objective. What is different about President Trump – and its frankly different about both Republicans and Democrats of the past – is that he’s not going to let his country go to war unless there’s a clearly defined objective. He’s defined that objective as Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and has to commit long-term to never trying to rebuild a nuclear capability. It’s pretty clear, it’s pretty simple, and I think that means that we’re not get into the problems that we have had with Iraq and Afghanistan.
And as Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “The bottom line is no matter who governs that country a year from now, they’re not going to have these ballistic missiles and they’re not going to have these drones to threaten us. That’s the objective of this mission.”
The Iranian people can decide for themselves how their nation will be governed and by who. America and Israel are simply taking out the trash, so that a newly liberated Iranian populace can go back to a much better life, one like before the 1979 Islamist Revolution.
Pray for this conflict with the Islamist enemy to come to a swift end, and pray for the poor longsuffering Iranians that they can once again can enjoy a free, democratic and prosperous life, in whatever way they choose to proceed with it.
Not all regime change is desirable or moral. However, I believe the regime change we are now witnessing in Iran is both.
Postscript
I just came upon this very helpful and incisive 40-minute video on regime change and the current situation in Iran by Dinesh D’Souza. It is well worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPTUgZBSp4
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It appears that both sides are settling in for a long conflict. The Iranians are making it clear that there will be no negotiations and no surrender. By now, the leaders of the regime are almost certainly holed up in very deep bunkers underneath hospitals, schools and other very sensitive targets in highly populated areas. They probably figure that if they can just weather the bombing for a few weeks they can emerge victorious at the end of the conflict and declare victory. The protesters in Iran are no match for the heavily-armed IRGC, and so it is unlikely that regime change will occur unless foreign troops enter the country. Iranian leaders are likely convinced that President Trump will never pull the trigger on such a move, but now Trump has publicly stated that he is refusing to rule out U.S. boots on the ground.
Even when Ayatollah Khamenei was still alive, Ali Larijani was essentially running things in Iran.
Now that Khamenei is gone, Larijani is very much in control, and he is defiantly declaring that there will be no negotiations with the United States…
Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani said that Tehran has no plans to engage in negotiations with the United States.
“We will not negotiate with the United States,” the former adviser to the late supreme leader said in a post on X, dismissing reports that it is seeking to restart negotiations with Washington.
Anyone that was hoping for a quick end to the war is going to be disappointed.
Larijani is accusing the U.S. and Israel of attempting to “plunder and disintegrate” Iran…
Ali Larijani, a close ally of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered the blunt message on Sunday after announcing the formation of a provisional governing structure within hours of the airstrike that killed the supreme leader.
Larijani accused the United States and Israel of seeking to ‘plunder and disintegrate’ Iran and warned so-called ‘secessionist groups’ within his country.
He delivered a direct rebuke to President Donald Trump and warned: ‘We will not negotiate.’
‘Trump plunged the region into chaos with his “delusional fantasies” and now fears more American troop casualties,’ Larijani wrote on X.
It is true that the U.S. and Israel want to bring an end to the Islamic Republic.
Anything short of that will be a defeat for the U.S. and Israel.
So Larijani’s main goal is survival.
If he can keep the government together and the IRGC in control of the major cities until the end of the war, he wins.
And he fully understands that.
Interestingly, there are rumors that Larijani is attempting to install his own brother as the new supreme leader…
These are not good people, and they are going to do whatever it takes to make it through this.
In a desperate attempt to gain leverage with the rest of the world, the Iranians have decided to close down the Strait of Hormuz and they are vowing that they “will not allow a single drop of oil to leave the region”…
A senior Revolutionary Guards commander warned Tehran would target shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and strike oil infrastructure in the Middle East to prevent exports.
“Any ship that seeks to pass through the Strait of Hormuz we will set on fire,” Brigadier General Ebrahim Jabbari said in remarks carried by Iranian media on Monday.
“We will also attack oil pipelines and will not allow a single drop of oil to leave the region,” he said, adding that “oil prices will reach $200 in the coming days.”
I think that it is likely that they will be able to force the price of oil above $100 a barrel, but crossing the $200 threshold is probably a pipe dream.
We shall see what happens.
In the days ahead, there will almost certainly be a lot more attacks on oil infrastructure.
Earlier today, we learned that the Ras Tanura refinery in Saudi Arabia was shut down after an attack by Iranian drones…
Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant Aramco shut its Ras Tanura refinery following a drone strike, an industry source said on Monday, after Tehran launched strikes across the region in response to the US-Israeli attack on Iran.
The Ras Tanura complex, on the kingdom’s Gulf coast, houses one of the Middle East’s largest refineries with a capacity of 550,000 barrels per day (bpd) and serves as a critical export terminal for Saudi crude oil.
Ras Tanura was shut as a precautionary measure, and the situation is under control, the source said. Two drones were intercepted at the facility, with debris causing a limited fire, the Saudi defense ministry’s spokesperson said on Al Arabiya TV, adding there were no injuries.
The Iranians are probably calculating that if they can put enough pressure on the global supply of oil that it will force the United States and Israel to cease their attacks.
But I don’t think that the U.S. and Israel are going to turn back now.
After months of planning, President Trump gave the order to go ahead with Operation Epic Fury at 3:38 PM on February 27th…
The U.S. war in Iran began Saturday, Feb. 28, with a “massive, overwhelming” strike that involved thousands of American servicemembers, hundreds of planes and two aircraft carriers, and hit more than a thousand targets across the country, the Pentagon’s top general told reporters.
The military received its “final go order” from President Donald Trump a day earlier on Feb. 27 at 3:38 p.m., Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a news conference March 2.
Trump’s message to troops: “Operation Epic Fury is approved. No aborts. Good luck,” Caine said, using the Pentagon’s operational name for the attack.
Trump knows that if the regime in Iran is still standing at the end of this war, it will be a major defeat for him.
So he is keeping his options open.
On Monday, he steadfastly refused to rule out sending U.S. troops into Iran during an interview with the New York Post…
President Trump told The Post Monday that he’s not ruling out sending US ground troops into Iran “if they were necessary” — adding that Operation Epic Fury was “way ahead of schedule” after taking out dozens of Tehran’s top officials.
“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it,” Trump said after launching strikes Saturday to decapitate Iran’s military and political leadership. “I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ [or] ‘if they were necessary.’”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said at a Monday morning Pentagon press conference that no American troops are currently inside Iran, though he also did not rule out the possibility.
President Trump is not stupid.
He knows that regime change in Iran is not going to be easy.
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Trump ominously stated that we “haven’t even started hitting them hard” and he warned that the “big one is coming soon”…
I asked the president how long he thought this military operation or war might last. He said, quote, “I don’t want to see it go on too long. I always thought it would be four weeks and we’re a little ahead of schedule.” I asked a president if the U.S. was doing more than these military strikes to help the Iranian people regain control of Iran against the regime, to seize the country from the Iranian regime, and he said, yes, the president said, “Yes, we are indeed. But right now we want everyone staying inside. It’s not safe out there.” And then the president said, it’s about to get even less safe. He said, quote, “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon.”
What does Trump mean by that?
Perhaps we will soon find out.
Trump keeps telling us that he expects the war to last for four to five weeks, but he is fully prepared for it to go much longer than that if necessary…
President Donald Trump says the US has the capability to continue Iran strikes far longer than the five-week projection.
“From the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that, we’ll do it. Whatever somebody said today, they said, Oh, well, President wants to do it really quickly. After that, he’ll get bored. I don’t get bored.”
It is easy to take out stationary military targets that are above ground.
At this stage, U.S. Central Command is telling us that over 1,000 targets have already been destroyed…
While U.S. Central Command said more than 1,000 targets have already been wiped out and the White House has boasted of destroying most of the country’s top leadership, Iran has still managed to unleash a huge number of retaliatory attacks, reportedly alarming military officials.
Without a doubt, all of this bombing has made a big difference.
But as long as the IRGC has 125,000 heavily-armed members in control of the major cities, the regime will remain in power.
So yes, the United States and Israel are successfully bombing the living daylights out of targets all over Iran right now.
However, the truth is that this “final showdown” with Iran is far from over.
The Iranian regime is still very much alive, and they are going to do whatever they feel is necessary to survive.
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Amid all the chaos that has unfolded over the past 48 hours, that is the upshot of what we know so far. There’s plenty of speculation, and a cacophony of opinions has flooded the airwaves. But in this moment, the best approach may be taking stock of what we know for sure, and praying hard – for our troops, for their families, for our leaders, and for the civilians caught in harm’s way. Here’s something else we know: President Trump has been honest that there will likely be more American casualties as the attacks continue this week, but he has also stated his firm belief that this is an operation that is in the best interests of America and neutralizes a serious threat to U.S. national security. Reason for trust comes first from Trump’s now decade-long record of confounding the predictions of the foreign policy establishment.
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Scientists, tech experts, and skywatchers prepare as solar storms threaten skies and systems.” It rises. It sets. It warms our skin and fades behind buildings like it always has. But beneath that steady glow, something is building — a cycle of magnetic chaos that peaks every eleven years. And we’re getting close to the next one. It’s called the solar maximum, the most intense phase of the Sun’s natural activity cycle. During this period, the Sun’s magnetic field flips, sunspots multiply, and powerful bursts of energy erupt into space. Most of the time, we don’t notice. But sometimes, we do.
Iranian missile warhead struck less than a kilometer from Temple Mount
The warhead of an Iranian missile hit a site just several dozen meters from the Old City of Jerusalem, and just several hundred meters from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, during the course of Saturday, the police state. According to police, an explosion was heard in the area yesterday, shortly after the beginning of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, and smoke was seen rising from the site, just west of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Did the Ayatollah try to blow up the Temple Mount before he died?
Sunday was a tragic day in Israel as an Iranian missile killed nine people, some of whom were in a bomb shelter, left several missing, and wounded dozens, including several children, in Beit Shemesh, bringing the number of Israelis killed by Iranian missiles to 10, along with nearly 500 wounded. But a tragedy of a different kind was narrowly averted on Saturday, the first day of the war, as one missile landed just several hundred meters from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount. The missile hit the Sultan’s Pool outdoor events venue. On Sunday, another missile landed on a highway on the outskirts of Jerusalem Sunday evening. Three people were wounded. The impact left a large crater in the road, hollowed out a traffic sign, and caused heavy damage to several cars. But it is also clear that the Islamist regime is targeting Jerusalem. Ironically, a missile strike on the Temple Mount would likely destroy the Muslim structures that dominate Judaism’s holiest site. Within Saturday’s Jerusalem’bound rocket is a hidden meaning.
‘These are tectonic shifts’ – Joel Rosenberg sees biblical and strategic turning point as US-Israel war with Iran expands across Middle East
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Defense Minister Katz threatens Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem
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Drones hit US Embassy in Riyadh, no injuries reported
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IDF eliminates commander of Islamic Jihad’s Lebanon sector in Beirut
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… his elimination constitutes a severe degradation of the Islamic Jihad’s ability to carry out terror operations against the State of Israel and its citizens.
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I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. (4:13)
No matter how difficult his struggles may have been, Paul had a spiritual undergirding, an invisible means of support. His adequacy and sufficiency came from his union with the adequate and sufficient Christ: “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me” (Gal. 2:20).
When Paul wrote I can do all things he had in mind physical, not spiritual things. Ischuō (I can do) means “to be strong,” “to have power,” or “to have resources.” It is variously translated “overpowered” (Acts 19:16), “prevailing” (Acts 19:20), and “effective” (James 5:16). The Greek text emphasizes the word translated all things (a reference to physical needs; cf. vv. 11–12) by placing it first in the sentence. Paul was strong enough to endure anything through Him who strengthen[ed] him (cf. 1 Tim. 1:12; 2 Tim. 4:17). The apostle does not, of course, mean that he could physically survive indefinitely without food, water, sleep, or shelter. What he is saying is that when he reached the limit of his resources and strength, even to the point of death, he was infused with the strength of Christ. He could overcome the most dire physical difficulties because of the inner, spiritual strength God had given him. In the words of Isaiah,
He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly, yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary. (Isa. 40:29–31)
Perhaps the clearest illustration of this truth in Paul’s life comes from 2 Corinthians 12:7–10:
Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
Paul was tormented by a “thorn in the flesh,” most likely a demon who was behind the false teachers tearing up his beloved church in Corinth. This was the worst of all trials for him, because of his “concern for all the churches” (2 Cor. 11:28). He repeatedly begged the Lord to deliver him from the torment of that demonic attack on the church. But instead of delivering him, the Lord pointed Paul to the sufficiency of His grace. Contentment comes to believers who rely on the sustaining grace of Christ infused into believers when they have no strength of their own. In that sense, contentment is a by-product of distress.
Lest any doubt the sufficiency of Christ’s strengthening power, it is the same power Paul described in his prayer in Ephesians 3:
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man.… Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us. (Eph. 3:14–16, 20)
God’s power that indwells believers is far more than sufficient to strengthen and sustain them in any trial. Contentment belongs to those who confidently trust in that power rather than in their own resources. Jeremiah Burroughs observes,
A Christian finds satisfaction in every circumstance by getting strength from another, by going out of himself to Jesus Christ, by his faith acting upon Christ, and bringing the strength of Jesus Christ into his own soul, he is thereby enabled to bear whatever God lays on him, by the strength that he finds from Jesus Christ.… There is strength in Christ not only to sanctify and save us, but strength to support us under all our burdens and afflictions, and Christ expects that when we are under any burden, we should act our faith upon him to draw virtue and strength from him. (The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, 63)
It is important to note that only those who live lives of obedience to God’s will can count on His power to sustain them. Those whose continued sin has led them into the pit of despair cannot expect God to bring them contentment from their circumstances. In fact, He may even add to their difficulties to chasten them and bring them to repentance.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones compares the flow of God’s power into the believer’s life to the issue of physical health:
Now I suggest that that is analogous to this whole subject of power in one’s life as a Christian. Health is something that results from right living. Health cannot be obtained directly or immediately or in and of itself. There is a sense in which I am prepared to say that a man should not think of his health as such at all. Health is the result of right living, and I say exactly the same thing about this question of power in our Christian lives.
Or let me use another illustration. Take this question of preaching. No subject is discussed more often than power in preaching. “Oh, that I might have power in preaching,” says the preacher and he goes on his knees and prays for power. I think that that may be quite wrong. It certainly is if it is the only thing that the preacher does. The way to have power is to prepare your message carefully. Study the Word of God, think it out, analyse it, put it in order, do your utmost. That is that message God is most likely to bless—the indirect approach rather than the direct. It is exactly the same in this matter of power and ability to live the Christian life. In addition to our prayer for power and ability we must obey certain primary rules and laws.
I can therefore summarise the teaching like this. The secret of power is to discover and to learn from the New Testament what is possible for us in Christ. What I have to do is to go to Christ. I must spend my time with Him. I must meditate upon Him, I must get to know Him. That was Paul’s ambition—“that I might know Him.” I must maintain my contact and communion with Christ and I must concentrate on knowing Him.
What else? I must do exactly what He tells me. I must avoid things that would hamper. If in the midst of persecution we want to feel as Paul felt, we must live as Paul lived. I must do what He tells me, both to do and not to do. I must read the Bible, I must exercise, I must practise the Christian life, I must live the Christian life in all its fullness. (Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965], 298–99)
God’s power will bring contentment to those who have no strength of their own, but only if they have been living righteously. There is no quick fix, no shortcut to contentment. It comes only to those strengthened by divine power, and that divine power does not come from counselors, therapy, or self-help formulas, but only from consistent godly living.
MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (2001). Philippians (pp. 302–305). Moody Press.
Hendriksen, W., & Kistemaker, S. J. (1953–2001). Exposition of Philippians (Vol. 5, p. 206). Baker Book House.
(Barry Bowen – The Trinity Foundation) It rarely gets media attention, but for decades so-called prophets have targeted wealthy individuals with personalized prophecies for the purpose of obtaining lucrative donations.
We’ve collected several examples below.
This corrupt practice was discussed in Bible teacher Mike Winger’s recent exposé of Shawn Bolz.
Mike Winger: “I’m going to call them Bob and Sally…Bob and Sally were a couple that was very well off, and they had the beginnings of this business that was skyrocketing, like you know, crazy, crazy money….
That was the direction that it was heading. That is very attractive to the prophet crowd… those guys that they love, the rich big money bags guys that they can prophesy to, sincere Christians who love Jesus and just happen to have a load of cash. All of a sudden, you get special words of knowledge for those people.”
Winger reports that Mike Bickle, Shawn Bolz and Stacy Campbell, all leaders in America’s prophetic movement, attempted to recruit Bob and Sally. View article →
Part 1 False Prophecy as a Path to Riches: Data Harvesting False Prophets
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Apologist Mike Winger Releases 6 Hour Expose on Bethel Church, Shawn Bolz
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CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as those named in the article.
Source: False Prophecy as a Path to Riches, Part 2: Targeting Wealthy Donors
(Diane Woerner – TruthScript) There are many sins of the tongue—gossip, slander, swearing, coarse joking—but one sin may be even more displeasing to God than these: the sin of complaining.
Complaining and grumbling are mentioned nearly fifty times in Scripture, and it’s never a positive thing. Consider the story in Numbers 11. The Israelites had been freed from Egyptian slavery and were now journeying through the desert toward the land God had promised them. But after perhaps months of eating nothing but the miraculous manna God provided, they were getting tired of it.
We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes! View article →
The church rarely loses discernment through sudden rebellion or open denial of Scripture. More often, it happens slowly, quietly, and relationally—through softened language, subtle authority shifts, and “almost right” teaching that feels wise and compassionate. In this episode, Dave Jenkins explains how drift actually happens and how ordinary believers can remain anchored in Christ without becoming cynical or fearful.
The post How the Church Loses Discernment: Why Theological Drift Happens Slowly appeared first on Servants of Grace.
Source: How the Church Loses Discernment: Why Theological Drift Happens Slowly
The Abrahamic Covenant is really the beginnings of the formal revelation of the covenant of grace, of God’s decision to reach into humanity and specifically save people for Himself.
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Pastor David Bowen discusses the demonic spirits at work today, that there is nothing new under the sun, and how too many believers lack a biblical worldview.
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