The Prophetic Presbyterian & His Narrow Way

Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years. “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts. Behold, I w...

 “Never answer a fool according to his own folly.”  Have you ever heard the morality police say that?  On the one hand, they operate like the Mean Girls Club.  On the one hand, they feel free to police the local church & community, as if they are practicing divination and locator spells for people whose views disagree with their own & moral problems too.  On the other as soon as you confront Fiona, Diane, & Cordelia, they run to Proverbs to shut you down.   4  Do not answer a fool according to his folly,      or you yourself will be just like him. 5  Answer a fool according to his folly,      or he will be wise in his own eyes. (Proverbs 26:4 - 5) The fool is one who doesn’t believe what the Bible correctly exegeted, exposited, and understood teaches. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Don’t answer the falsehoods, poor thinking, & bad doctrine spread by J...

The more I read The Christian Post , the more I think that the people who run it are more committed to ideological 21st Century American Conservatism than they are the Bible.   Here’s yet another example of wooly thinking that emanates from their contributors.   Rather than dissect it in full, I’ll offer some representative remarks.  “ Notice that in Matthew 25:40 Jesus said, “… inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to Me.” So the “least of these” are His brethren.” Who are Jesus’ brethren? Hebrews 2:11 answers, “For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren.”  Romans 8:29 calls Jesus “the firstborn among many brethren.”  1 John 3:13-14 counsels us “Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you,” but “We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren.” It’s clear that the author bundled together the above set...