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  • When Does the Mark of the Beast Begin?

    Joseph Candel

    January 2018

    The book of Revelation predicts that before Jesus’ return a world dictator known as the Antichrist will rise to power and rule for seven years. He will abolish all religions and insist that the world worship him. He and his chief minister, whom the book of Revelation refers to as the “false prophet,” will also institute the “mark of the Beast” in an effort to exercise total economic and political control.

  • Pre-Tribulation or Post-Tribulation Rapture?

    Scott MacGregor

    September 2017

    The term "Rapture" is not found in English-language Bibles, but made its way into Christian terminology as a transliteration of rapiemur (from rapio, or raptio), the Latin word used by Saint Jerome in his Latin Vulgate translation of 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, which describes how the saved from all ages, both dead and living, will be "caught up" to meet Jesus in the air at His Second Coming.

  • Transhumanism and the Endtime

    Joseph Candel

    August 2, 2017

    Transhumanism is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. Many people have questions about the subject of transhumanism and how it relates to the Endtime.

  • The King's Return

    John Weaver

    June 02, 2017

    When He came to our world nearly 2,000 years ago, He and His message of love and salvation were rejected by the leaders of His own people. Yes, they wanted a savior, a messiah, a great king, but not one born in a barn and raised as a poor carpenter, who chose humble fishermen, tax collectors, drunks, and prostitutes as His friends and followers. Few of the rich and powerful of His day were interested in the freedom of spirit He offered to those who would receive the truth He spoke.

  • Signs of the Times: Violence

    Joseph Candel

    May 2017

    Jesus indicated that pervasive violence would be prevalent prior to His return: “As the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be” (Matthew 24:37). The book of Genesis tells us that in the days of Noah “the earth was corrupt before God, and was filled with violence”

  • The Spitting Image of the Antichrist

    Scott MacGregor

    May 20, 2017

    From time to time, this column on Endtime events revisits the subject of the “image of the Beast.” Recently I was looking at a photo of a gold-plated colossus of a recently deceased dictator, and it got me thinking. It seems dictators really like having giant statues of themselves erected, and it looks like the worst tyrant the world will ever know is going to follow in the tradition of his predecessors.