Brooklyn's Dad Talks About the Bible

We look at God's prophetic plans for the earth, the promised land, and for his earthly kingdom. We discuss the Lord's death, lack of decay, and resurrection and the importance these have in cleansing the multiple spheres in God's kingdom. We note that the overcomers of the Revelation, a cleansed Israel, is the Lord's Bride and will inhabit the blessing of the heavenly New Jerusalem which comes dow...

We walk through Ezekiel 36 and look at God's plan for the earth and the land in that book. A very popular verse for evangelists to preach and for believers to claim is Ezekiel 36:26. We note how it badly manipulated by so many today and, further, how it distorts and clouds an understanding of God's plans for the future of Israel. God is a promise-keeping God. Israel is his Bride and he will cleans...

If one correctly sees Israel in the texts of the Psalms and the Prophets yet the same one goes on to teach that the "church" is somehow a "new" Israel or a different version of the same Israel, he has many problems on his hands. Conversely, the believer who believes either that he is Israel and is entitled to Israel's promises as laid out in the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets... this one then h...

On the surface, we may be tempted to take some simple lessons from the Lord's parables. But in doing so, we will probably be doing great violence to the text and not only miss the message, we may completely destroy it. Scripture must be rightly divided and the especially goes for the parables. The Lord started to speak in parables as a judgment against the nation, but that doesn't mean he doesn't...

We walk through another of-quoted Psalm in light of its context. We look at popular verses and where biblical wisdom truly starts. When we fear and reverence God, we look to our command in God's final inspired revelation, 2 Timothy, and we seek to honor him by studying to show ourselves approved and by rightly dividing (drawing straight lines) the Word of Truth. Once again we encounter the idea of...

Psalm 46 is a very popular chapter in scripture and understandably so. There is much about the character and attributes of our God in the Psalm, but we must be careful when applying it in this age to ourselves. What we are dealing with nations in this section and God's plan and promise concerning the land are the backdrop. #theology God is OUR refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. T...

We continue to show the importance of applying "rightly dividing the Word of Truth" (2 Tim 2:15) to scripture and to everything that comes our way. Just as we noted that an unbelievable number of Christians carelessly have adopted John Lennon's utopian and godless song "Imagine" for some reason, we take the principles of "filtering" and apply them to George Harrison's hit song "Give Me Love." A so...

We take a look at former Beatle John Lennon's Utopian fantasy song and ask why would any Christian would embrace this? We also examine Lennon's own life and views and how they evolved over the years. Imagine no possessions, but that doesn't mean you can't make a fortune on cattle futures or sue the government to get out of paying taxes on your investments!  All the Beatles moved at least part of t...

We begin with apologies to John Calvin... for our tone, not our point. When we fail to let scripture speak for itself or fail to recognize when our system doesn't fit, we wander into areas of great error. We drop in on Leviticus and the Feast of Weeks as well as Haggai chapter 1 and the rebuilding of the temple. Along the way, we prove that every Christian is a dispensationalist!

We finish our look at a few of the commentaries featuring big names like Calvin, Spurgeon, Henry, and Sproul as they pontificate on the Beatitudes in Matthew 5. We notice that, when we fail to rightly divide the word of truth, no amount of seminary training or voluminous writing will help. God has a plan for the earth and when we miss that and try to cram everything into a saved/lost split, we los...

As promised (I need to stop promising things), I read a few excerpts from commentaries from the some of the big names in historic Evangelicalism / Protestantism regarding the Beatitudes in Matthew 5. We can quickly see that despite some degree of wordiness, they still base their interpretations on the heaven/hell and saved/lost paradigm and don't say much IMO. Having to cram every verse in your Bi...

We head back to the Sermon on the Mount as recorded by Matthew. We walk through the Beatitudes and step away from tradition and the restrictions of the "heaven/hell" and "saved/lost" paradigm and try to understand what the Lord is really saying and to whom and for when. Most of scripture concerns God's plans for the earth and for his earthly people. Matthew is especially focused on the gospel of t...

We come along side Peter as he addresses "Ye Men of Israel" in Acts 3 and offers them the promises made to them by the prophets. We challenge pastors to try and preach this chapter as it is written, in its context, to its audience, with the plan of God clearly displayed. Israel and Jews remain Israel and Jews all through the Acts age. For those keeping score at home, Acts 3 comes after Acts 2 (the...

One of the things that really grinds my gears is being told what I believe, being stuck in a category of someone else's choosing. We explore modern thinking in light of Satan's strategy and man's reasoning. A colossal error many believers make is thinking someone (pastor, etc.) or something (denomination, local church, etc.) will stand with them (or in their place) at their judgment of service. No...

We take a look at how Satan is able to infiltrate the marriage of believers. In the Acts Age, believers wrote to Paul asking for his guidance. Paul's advice for that age was to not get married (if you could handle that). The Lord added in Matthew 24 that in the coming Tribulation in Israel it was better if you did not have children. But if you must marry, don't give Satan a foothold in the name of...

We seek to rightly divide the of-quoted promise in Philippians 4:19 by putting it in context of the chapter, the book, and the age in which it was given to our Apostle Paul. #theology

"In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency." -Tom Seaver... In theology, we must also strive for consistency. We never want to get far from our Apostle's final words to us, we must strive to "rightly divide the Word of Truth." And when rightly divide, it applies to ALL of scripture! Context, Comparison, and Consistency is what we strive for. Not to please men, not to fit a system, but to...

We seek to break down 2 Corinthians 11 and Satan's ministers who are "the ministers of righteousness." Scripture doesn't teach us that Satan is in the brothel business, it teaches he's in the righteousness business. But what kind of righteousness? What's wrong with those who preach righteousness? Plenty if the don't rightly divide the true source of righteousness. Note: We had a few audio glitches...

We look at the beatitude in Matthew 5:6 in context. We then move on from the "all things" of Romans 8:28 and look at the supposed promise of protection for believers today in Jeremiah and then compare the threats of no protection and ask how Christians can just pick one and not the other. Finally we review yet another false (unbiblical) concept of Satan's methods.

Romans 8:28 is yet another verse too often ripped from its context and willy-nilly applied to every believer in every age for any purpose. The great doctrine of the undoing of the curse in resurrection is once again missed. A dangerous result of the false hope derived from this verse wrongly divided trumpeted from the pulpits of Christendom is the loss of faith of countless seekers. Just as believ...

We explore the fact that I'm a loud-mouthed schnook and contemplate the ramifications at my future assessment of works. We then realize that no matter what anyone thinks about my doctrines or my biblical interpretations, each will still answer for his own faith. We must not be content to simply oppose, we must be able to defend. We must all examine ourselves to see where we are in the faith. We mu...

More Olympics talks! Go USA! We turn to the topic of faux outrage and its growing popularity in religion, politics, and culture. People just LOVE to be outraged! Gives a sense of self-righteous indignation when there is really nothing at stake. We can lash out at shadows with no downside. We revisit Christians still demanding the pagans in Paris pretend they're not pagans and then continue to rip...

Unbelievers mock God at their own risk, but God does not warn believers about drag queens. Nobody is confused as to whether drag queens posing as DaVinci's "Last Supper" is truth from God. If that's Satan's plan to deceive, it's pretty stupid. What Paul warned believers about that which is Satan's tactic. Satan presents himself as an Angel of Light and his ministers are the ministers of righteousn...

We jump off our look at Mark and over to a parallel passage Matthew 16. We compare and contrast the calls to go on to maturity in the Gospels wherein "disciples" are called to "lose [their] souls." We cannot understand this command to believers if we adopt the tradition view of the soul, when we become immortal, or the very idea of "losing" one's "soul" (which we are called to do).

We take a look at an of-quoted verse of scripture involving gaining the world and losing one's "soul." We look at verse 36 in light of the context of the Lord telling his disciples he will soon be put to death. Mark uses the same word translated "life" and "soul" four times. In context of the Lord laying down his life, he is asking his followers at that time to be prepared to lay down theirs. If y...