THE KINGDOM HERALD

The world is in perilous times. What is happening around the world is confounding. And it’s not just in third-world countries like Sudan, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Cambodia, and other such nations we only hear about on cable news and hope never to stray into. It’s also not the seemingly never-ending Middle East conflicts, which hardly make headline news these days. Rather, some of the world’s most advanced and enterprising countries are also passing through dire times. Recently, CNN published an article about planes in China firing rods into the sky to induce rain, with a picture of the great Yangtze River with its exposed bed consisting of cracked clay. Rain has been scarce and the crucial river is drying. Such scenes are common around the world, including along a regional river that runs by where I live. Nations are breaking Europe, in some ways the darling of the world, is “on fire.” Great Britain of the powerful British Empire of yore has been declared a “failed state” where “collap

Those who are perceptively following the unprecedented sanctions the West is imposing on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine realize their terrible implications for Vladimir Putin’s country. Slowly, persistently, and mercilessly – no more merciless than the Russian advance on Ukraine has been – the rope is being tightened around the throat of the Russian economy. The lifeblood of the nation is being steadily cut off. Right before our eyes is the making of a giant North Korea – a behemoth pariah nation, a burden that may become too heavy for the world to ignore. The Flipside of the Sanctions Gratifying to the West and crippling to Russia as the sanctions may be, they have an ominous flipside for the entire world. The West is doubtless aware of this dangerous potential consequence of the sanctions and is preparing for it. The Western leaders realize that the worst kind of adversary you don’t want to take on in a high-stakes conflict is a lethally armed one with nothing to lose. I am

Early during the COVID-19 pandemic, around the beginning of 2020, I had a dream in which I was part of a throng of people advancing along a dedicated and bounded lane of a highway. The entire area and everyone in the throng were ominously covered with black powder. Then a realization hit me in the dream and I said to myself, “This is the way of death.” I subsequently stepped out of the throng to seek a way to redemption through an open area adjoining the highway. After my initial draft of this article, my mind was quickened to how this dream was reminiscent of Rick Joyner's “The Hordes of Hell Are Marching” [1]. Although it may have broader applications, I believe that my dream (Acts 2:17) is primarily related to the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has been globally confounding and disruptive in unprecedented ways. Our collective understanding of what is going on is disturbingly limited and, by ourselves, we remain highly vulnerable to the scourge. Under these circumstances, we sh

(For the first part of the article,  click here .) Not Appointed to Wrath So, how do we reconcile the above-mentioned sequence of end-time events with Scripture passages that teach that believers have not been appointed to wrath and that they will be kept from the hour of temptation that will come upon the entire world? Firstly, we must note that Revelation 3:10 was primarily addressed to the “church in Philadelphia.” In other words, while the message of the letter in which it is contained, like the rest of the Revelation, has a broader prophetic and universal application (see Revelation 1:1-3), the verse must be read in its immediate context and appropriately extended. By the way, this verse (Revelation 3:10) also poses a challenge to those who only see localized applications of the Seven Letters of the Revelation. Nevertheless, 1 Thessalonians 5:9 clearly has a universal application: “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.”  The

The Covid-19 pandemic and the associated global distress have stimulated increased interest in Bible prophecy and the end times. One of the subjects that have attracted greater attention is the Rapture, which is a major marker in the diverse timelines of end-time events that have been put forward, and arguably the next most consequential event in the history of Christianity and the entire world. I have shared my primary thoughts about the subject on different discussion forums but never got to specifically address it in an article, partly because of the related controversies. However, considering the evidently late hour in which we currently live, I felt an urgency to write this article. A Popular View of the Rapture Many expect the Rapture of the faithful members of the Christian Church to occur before the Great Tribulation predicted in Scripture (Daniel 12:1; Matthew 24:21). This, I believe, is an error. Indeed, it is one of the greatest errors among professing Christians that ha

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