Dinesh D'Souza and Jonathan Cahn in Dragon's Prophecy speak of a resurrected Israel.
But the "Messianic Activism" of the 19th century was a work of man rather than a supernatural work of God and fails to check off key elements of the actual (biblical) end-time Gathering of Israel.
To be clear, I'm part Jewish, love Israel, and love that the Jews have their own nation in the Holy Land. It's betting the farm on this being the end of the Age—which stirs up the same caustic fatalism of apocalypticism that has caused untold historical problems; and duly makes religion repulsive to the secular world. There's your problem!
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The twenty-first century opens like a dawn over uncharted seas. Rockets rise from launch pads like prayers of fire. Telescopes peer beyond galaxies into the first faint light of creation. Artificial intelligence translates languages, guides surgeons, composes music, and writes poetry. Medicine vanquishes diseases once thought immortal. Engineers dream of cities on Mars, green energy across deserts, and water drawn from barren air.
And yet, amid such wonder, humanity carries questions of meaning, morality, and mortality as old as Eden. For what good are rockets if men carry war into the stars? What use are colonies on Mars if injustice and hatred follow us there? What value is intelligence—artificial or human—if it lacks wisdom, humility, and hope?
This century will demand more than technology. It will demand vision. And if Christianity lifts the weight of imminence and learns to bless the future rather than fearing it, it could help craft a civilization that is worthy of its discoveries.
Imagine a world where universities no longer pit science against faith but see them as partners in seeking truth. Theology classrooms teach the wonder of quantum physics alongside the mystery of divine transcendence. Physics labs host lectures on ethics shaped by centuries of Christian moral thought.
Churches sponsor observatories, science fairs, and space scholarships, seeing telescopes as tools of worship rather than threats to belief. Scientists and theologians meet not to debate boundaries but to explore meaning—together pondering the vastness of a universe still expanding at the speed of light.
Such a future would surprise those who assume faith must always oppose progress. It would show that Christianity freed from apocalyptic suspicion could bless the scientific imagination rather than discouraging it.
Picture the first permanent settlement on Mars, not merely as a human achievement but as a spiritual milestone. Chapels rise beside laboratories. Hymns mingle with the hum of oxygen generators. Ethical debates about terraforming, AI governance, and planetary mining unfold with voices shaped by Christian visions of stewardship and justice.
Colonists read Genesis not as an excuse to exploit worlds but as a call to care for them: Fill the earth and subdue it becomes tend and keep, a charge to cultivate rather than conquer.
The same faith once accused of retreating from progress now provides the moral compass for humanity’s first steps beyond Earth.
In this envisioned century, art blossoms beside science. Composers write symphonies inspired by images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Filmmakers create epics about faith and courage amid alien landscapes. Painters fill cathedrals with cosmic vistas, showing Christ not only as the Lord of history, but also as the Lord of galaxies and gravitational waves.
Such art lifts the human spirit beyond materialism, reminding explorers and scientists alike that life requires beauty as much as oxygen, meaning as much as mathematics.
Technology will tempt humanity toward hubris: genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, planetary control. But Christianity at its best has always spoken of humility, justice, and the limits of power.
In this future, Christian ethicists help guide laws on AI rights, genetic editing, and planetary colonization. Pastors preach sermons on humility before creation. Theologians write books on the image of God amid machine learning and alien ecosystems.
One day, perhaps centuries from now, a congregation will gather on another world. Dust storms may swirl outside domes of steel and glass. Yet inside, voices will rise in hymns not of fear but of wonder—thanking God for the stars, for the Christ who reigns over galaxies, for a Gospel wide enough to embrace a universe billions of light-years across.
Such worship will carry no hint of the albatross, no fear that exploration delays Christ’s return, no suspicion that discovery threatens divine sovereignty. Faith will stand confident, joyful, unafraid—its hope as vast as the heavens themselves.
Christ may return tomorrow, or in ten thousand years. Faith need not know the timing to live faithfully. A Christianity free from apocalyptic anxiety will embrace this mystery, working for justice, beauty, knowledge, and hope as though history may last a thousand millennia—while living with the readiness that it may end tonight.
This paradox—urgency without panic, hope without fear—will define the faith of the future.
The man beneath the two skies will finally straighten his shoulders. The prophecy-sky above him will no longer thunder with doom, but shine with promise. The science-sky will no longer compete with faith, but expand it.
No longer racing against time, humanity will walk forward into history’s next chapters with courage, humility, and hope—its faith no longer a chain dragging behind but a wind filling its sails.
And perhaps the true marvel of the century ahead will not be colonies on Mars or artificial intelligence or telescopes glimpsing the universe’s edge. Perhaps it will be this: that faith and discovery learned at last to walk together beneath the stars.
Coming soon: Albatross: Faith,
Science, and the Future
What if faith and science didn’t
have to compete? What if prophecy could offer hope instead of fear?
Albatross invites readers into a bold vision where Christianity
celebrates human curiosity, embraces discovery, and walks confidently into the
future. Perfect for believers seeking inspiration and for non-Christians
curious about spirituality’s role in the modern world, this book blends
history, theology, and science into a moving call for courage, wonder, and
wisdom in the century ahead.
Beneath two skies, humanity stands at a crossroads.
One sky is filled with prophecy—the thunder of sermons, the timelines of
end-times teachers, the conviction that history is running out of time. The
other sky is filled with rockets, telescopes, and scientific wonder—a universe
expanding faster than we can imagine, waiting to be explored.
For centuries, these skies have seemed to collide: faith warning that the
world will soon end, science dreaming of the centuries and civilizations ahead.
Many believers feel torn between prophecy and progress. Many skeptics assume
Christianity fears the future. And countless people—Christian and non-Christian
alike—carry the weight of this tension like an albatross across their
shoulders.
Albatross: Faith, Science, and the Future invites readers into a
bold, hopeful vision for the twenty-first century and beyond. It confronts the
fear and fatalism that have often haunted modern Christianity and asks:
·Can faith bless human discovery instead of
fearing it?
·Can prophecy offer hope without demanding panic?
·Can science and spirituality walk together into
the future rather than apart?
Drawing on history, theology, ethics, and the wonder of scientific
exploration, Albatross offers a Christianity big enough for both
galaxies and grace—a faith that celebrates human curiosity as part of God’s
design rather than a threat to it.
Whether you are a Christian longing for a faith that embraces progress, a
skeptic curious about spirituality’s place in the modern world, or simply a
reader hungry for thoughtful, hope-filled perspectives on humanity’s future, Albatross
invites you to imagine what might happen if faith shed its fears, lifted its
eyes, and walked forward beneath two skies finally reconciled.
Part history, part theology, part inspiration, this book
will help readers see prophecy not as a weight of doom but as a horizon of
promise, freeing both faith and science to serve the flourishing of the
world—and perhaps the worlds beyond.
Readers' reviews of this little book by Christians who are open to the
present day operation of the Spiritual gifts speak for themselves!
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More
than a Bible study, The Gift of Tongues gives practical and personal
guidance - answering questions that too often go unasked.
The author
covers various views on the gift of tongues and briefly addresses the
Cessation Theory. Topics include: the purposes of tongues, use of
tongues in church and in private, the nature and value of tongues to the
church and to the individual, and how to revive a church in which the
gifts have dwindled.
Quotes:“Is it any wonder that the principalities of
darkness are rising up and overpowering the floundering church of North
America? Our mighty weapons in Christ have been cast aside for the
rocks and clubs of mere human ability - natural instead of supernatural,
but predictable and logical, and conveniently taught in
seminary.”
“Christianity is nothing more than religion when it ceases to
be supernatural!”
Watching more end time news and enjoying it less? Recovery from obsessing over the end times is accomplished by understanding that God wants us to live like there’s MORE tomorrow. According to Wikipedia; “Apocalypticism is the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God's will, but now usually refers to the belief that the end of the world is imminent, even within one's own lifetime. This belief is usually accompanied by the idea that civilization will soon come to a tumultuous end due to some sort of catastrophic global event.” “Last Generation” thinking is unhealthy on many levels. Many of the problems with this pathologen are covered in the course of this guide.
Some will recognize the author as the writer of the Come Out of Her My People series of books. After nearly two decades of drilling down into Bible prophecy and working in international end-times radio, the author found himself evermore disenchanted with popular evangelical eschatology. Saved in a Jesus Movement fellowship, the author was taught and accepted as fact that the emergence of National Israel meant that only a short time remained until the end of the Age. But something just wasn’t right about spending so much time looking forward to and prepping for the end.
The God given spirit of life that causes people to thrive is not at odds with the mind of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, there must be a healthy way to eagerly wait for the Lord. Furthermore, God doesn’t want people wasting their lives, distracted and robbed of their productivity. This little guide doesn’t have all the answers. But it does offer some suggested resources where the reader can progress toward a peaceful understanding of end time prophecy.
The Gift of Tongues by C.W. Steinle will soon be available in audio format.
The Gift of Tongues audiobook image
Questions about the gift of tongues too often go unasked and
unanswered. This book represents over ten years of teaching on the
subject as well as real life experience inside and outside the church
setting. Check out some of the reviews at the Amazon link. https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Tongues-C-W-Steinle-ebook/dp/B07C9R79LY
This little book on the gift of tongues that has now sold over
15,000 copies. The 2018 Kindle version has been revised for readability.
The audio recording and editing process have been completed and,
hopefully, it will be available at Audible, Amazon, and iTunes in the next few days.
The paperback and Kindle edition are available at Amazon:
Newly revised in 2018. The Gift of Tongues is a concise reference to one
of the most mysterious practices of the Christian faith. The
definition, description, and uses of tongues are each explained, giving
biblical references. The author covers various views on the gift of
tongues and briefly discusses the Cessation Theory. Topics include: the
purposes of tongues, use of tongues in church and in private, the nature
and value of tongues to the church and to the individual, and how to
revive a church in which the gifts have dwindled.
More than a
Bible study- The Gift of Tongues gives practical and personal guidance,
answering many of the questions that frequently go unasked.
Quotes: “Is
it any wonder that the principalities of darkness are rising up and
overpowering the floundering church of North America? Our mighty weapons
in Christ have been cast aside for the rocks and clubs of mere human
ability - natural instead of supernatural, but predictable and logical,
and conveniently taught in seminary.”
“Christianity is nothing more than religion when it ceases to be supernatural!”
Excerpt: [Author's
Note: Teaching a class on the gifts of the Spirit for the last eleven
years has convinced me that the gift of tongues is one of the most
emotionally charged subjects in the Bible. My classes on the gifts are
always robust with questions and comments - and occasional funny looks -
and blank stares. But I am nonetheless persuaded that the spiritual
gifts mentioned by name in the Bible belong to the body of foundational
truths. Truths that every Christian needs to understand.
One of
my favorite ice breakers at the beginning of a new session is to ask a
series of “Would it be biblical?” questions. Seldom do the students get
these questions right. Usually, it becomes obvious right away that most
of students in the class haven't studied the Bible's full counsel on
tongues for themselves. Many of the students do however already have
some bias as to whether tongues are truly holy or not.
Now that I
have assembled more observations about the gift of tongues than I can
teach during a one hour course, it seems appropriate to write this
little book. Our goal will be to discover what the Bible says regarding
this gift; encouraging what God commends, while acknowledging the New
Testament guidelines to ensure decency and order. I must confess from
the onset that I am biased by my understanding of the Scriptures and by
my own personal experience. I will, admittedly, add my own take, and a
few extra-biblical examples to convey my personal conclusions.
I hope you will find this study to be fresh and informative as we take a closer look at this mysterious gift.] end excerpt
