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Pentecostalism

Pentecostalism is a modern movement that rose in the early 20th century and has become one of the most influential forms of Christian worship worldwide. It is often marked by deep expectancy of God’s nearness and a strong emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially speaking in tongues. Many people today associate “tongues” with unintelligible speech because that is what they often encounter in contemporary worship settings. But in the New Testament’s first “tongues” moment at Pentecost, the emphasis falls on intelligible witness: people from many places hearing the message in their own languages. This raises careful questions worth exploring: what did the early church understand spiritual gifts to be for, why were signs and healings so closely tied to the gospel’s public witness, and how did Paul guide believers to value what lasts most - faith, hope, and love?

Daughters of Babylon

The Reformation is often remembered as a brave return to Scripture. But it also unfolded in a world where faith and government were tightly bound together. So what should we make of the churches that emerged during that era? What did they renew, and where did political pressures pull faith communities back into old patterns of power and rivalry? And when Revelation warns about religion becoming entangled with rulers, does it offer a lens for reading that period of history with both honesty and hope?

The Man of Lawlessness

2 Thessalonians warns that a “man of lawlessness” will arise as the day of the Lord approaches, exalting himself within God’s “temple.” Many today read that warning as a single future end-time ruler, while others locate its main horizon in the first-century Roman world. This article follows a historicist line of reading that treats the image as a recurring pattern: when political power and religious authority fuse, faith can be remade into court religion, and communities can be pressured to give ultimate loyalty where it belongs to Christ alone. Do these prophecies invite us less to guess a name, and more to test where our allegiance is being trained?

The Great Apostasy

The New Testament gives serious warnings about drift after the Apostles. Paul cautions that “savage wolves” can arise even “from among your own selves,” drawing disciples after themselves. This article explores one way Christians have described that long drift: a “Great Apostasy” (2 Thessalonians 2:3) in which the Jesus movement, once a minority faith, learned to speak in the categories of public institutions and philosophical schools as it moved into the orbit of Roman power. The aim is not to question the sincerity of believers, but to trace how those pressures reshaped Christian language over time, and to invite a return to Scripture’s own horizon of resurrection, restored creation, and God’s Kingdom on earth.

The Great White Throne Judgment

What’s the Great White Throne Judgment? Who are those sitting with Jesus on the throne? And who represent the sheep and goats in front of the throne? If the reign is for a thousand years, what is to happen at the end of it? What will be the fate of Satan? Why does the Bible say 'death and Hades will be thrown into the lake of fire'? What about the Ages to Come? What will be mankind's position on Earth then? And what will be the role of Jesus and his Elect after the thousand-year reign?

An Age of Restoration

Why does Peter promise that when Jesus returns, it will be the Times of Restitution of All Things? He says those times are described by the Holy Prophets of the Old Testament. What are the promises recorded in the Bible about this Age of Restoration? What do these Kingdom prophecies predict regarding justice, world peace, health and prosperity of mankind? What exactly is the future that God has in store for humanity?

Judgment Day

Those of the second resurrection wake up to a "krisis" i.e. Judgment. It is indeed Judgment Day for them. But what exactly is Judgment Day? Why do Scriptures link it to the Kingdom of God? And how long is it? Is it a 24-hour day? And why does the Bible say the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness when God's judgments come upon the Earth?

A Change of Age

What are the events the Bible describes as related to the first resurrection? Just as there are two resurrections, so also there are two judgments. And so how is the Bema Seat Judgment different from the White Throne Judgment? What is to happen to Satan at the beginning of the Next Age? Why does the Bible say those who wake up in the second resurrection find themselves in a "krisis"?

Resurrection of the Dead

The Scriptures say that all the dead shall be raised back to life when Jesus returns. Will everyone come to life in an instant? The Bible says there are two resurrections. Why does it say, 'Blessed are those of the first resurrection'?

Return of Christ

What do Daniel’s prophecies predict about world-controlling empires and governments? What happens after the fall of Rome, the last of the Great Empires? Who is the Son of Man who is to receive the kingdom and dominion from God?

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