Does God Cause Pandemics?
(Copyright 01-09-2025) by David C. Grabbe (Charlotte, North Caralina) The masks have come off, and the restrictions have been lifted. The ventilators have been unplugged. The makeshift hospitals and testing centers have been dismantled, their tents folded and stored away. The cases and morbidities, once tracked obsessively across maps and dashboards, have vanished, and the […]
Cogitations on Christmas
(Copyright 12-19-2024) by Richard T. Ritenbaugh & David C. Grabbe (Charlotte, North Carolina) Christmas ContradictionsAn anonymous quotation that makes the rounds on the Internet every year runs, “Christmas is weird. What other time of year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?” Though it may induce a […]
Who Will Be Kept from the Hour of Trial?
(Copyright 08-14-2024) by David C. Grabbe (Charlotte, North Carolina) As human beings, we have an aversion to pain. We try to avoid the uncomfortable, the unpleasant, and the hurtful. Equipped with the capacity to feel both physically and emotionally, we are continually taking stock of what could injure us in our environment. When we know […]
Hating Evil, Fearing God
(Copyright 2010) by David C. Grabbe (Charlotte, North Carolina) “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil . . .” —Proverbs 8:13 At a Feast of Tabernacles in Columbia, Missouri, my wife and I saw something that illustrates the double-mindedness of this world. Returning to the hotel after lunch one day, we pulled up to a stoplight. The […]
Implications of the Gospel of the Kingdom
(Copyright 2023) by David C. Grabbe (Charlotte, North Carolina) The first chapter of Mark records that after John the Baptist was imprisoned, “Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel’” (Mark 1:14-15). The word gospel means “good news,” but conflicting […]
Why Must Satan Be Released?
(Copyright 2022) by David C. Grabbe (Charlotte, North Carolina) The great hope of Christians—and the essence of the gospel message—is that Jesus Christ will return to establish His Kingdom on earth. He will be King of kings and Lord of lords, governing mankind in a way that has never happened before. In addition, He will depose Satan from his current rulership of this world, […]
The Shout of a King
(Copyright 2022) by David C. Grabbe (Charlotte, North Carolina) To adherents of Judaism, the Feast of Trumpets is essentially a mystery. They can see that the first day of the seventh month is a holy day, and a noisy one at that: Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the […]