The New Testament does not leave the test for the spirit of antichrist in the realm of speculation. In 1 John 2:22 and 4:2–3, the apostle identifies it with unmistakable clarity: the denial that Jesus is the Christ, the refusal to confess that he has come in the flesh as the Son of God, and… Read more

For more than half a century, rock and metal have occupied a privileged place in American popular culture: commercially dominant, critically celebrated, and largely insulated from sustained examination of their theological content. Under a literal reading of the Bible—the text that for centuries defined blasphemy as contemptuous or irreverent speech against God—the record is plain.… Read more

The Nation of Islam’s assault on the historic Black church began in Detroit storefronts and Chicago temples in the 1930s. It reached its widest audience decades later through the recording studios and street corners of New York City. What had been a fringe racial mythology—whites as engineered devils, the Black man as God, Christianity as… Read more

The Nation of Islam did not merely offer Black Americans an alternative faith. From its founding in Detroit in 1930 through its national prominence in the 1960s and 1970s, it waged a sustained, race-based assault on the historic Black church and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Under Wallace Fard Muhammad and then Elijah Muhammad, the… Read more

Jamal Harrison Bryant stands in the pulpit of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, and tells people he is feeding them Christ. What he actually feeds them is a racially reconstructed figure who spent most of his life “wrong,” a gospel that changes meaning according to skin color, and open honor for a… Read more

The territory modern politics labels Palestine was, in the biblical account, the narrow coastal domain of the Philistines. These people arrived from Caphtor, not from the line of Abraham. Genesis 10 traces them through Mizraim; Amos 9 and Jeremiah 47 confirm the origin. They displaced earlier inhabitants and established the cities of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod,… Read more

The Lord throughout is identified as Jesus Christ. Jerusalem, Zion, and the daughter of Jerusalem refer to Israel. The chapter begins with judgment on the polluted city (Jerusalem/Israel) and moves to the day when the Lord gathers the nations for the outpouring of His fierce anger (paralleling the final judgments in Revelation and the tribulation… Read more

You stand on biblical truth. You refuse to be deceived by the teachings of false religions. Spiritual attacks to make you doubt your faith are ineffective. You know the enemy’s plan before he can roll it out. You can see God’s plan play out in real time. You can see the world’s lies for what… Read more