When Erika Kirk spoke the words on the man who killed her husband: “That man… that young man… I forgive him.” That moment deeply affected me. I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: “ I forgive the man who…
— Tim Allen (@ofctimallen) September 25, 2025
This Is Christian Nationalism, And I’m Here For It
It looks like God just took the MAGA movement for his own:
Hours of worship and the gospel delivered to 2 packed stadiums and 100 million (!!!) streams. Many viewers aren’t Christian. Many speakers are political or media figures suddenly given the kick that they needed to openly proclaim the gospel.
I’m also praying for the radical salvation of the other side of the political aisle.
“To An Unknown God”
The story of Paul’s encounter with the altar at Athens “to an unknown God” is more interesting than most realize: Epimenides was a Cretan whom Paul acknowledges as a prophet who told the Athenians that if they set up an altar to an unknown God, he would save them from the plague they were suffering. In other words, God was still speaking to distant people, even though he was withholding primary knowledge of himself except for through the Jews, and ultimately through Christ.
And we can see this in other places: Balaam was a genuine prophet of God, even though he was also greedy, and not Jewish.
This has fascinating ramifications, and answers one of the main questions many people have about Christianity: what about all of the people who have never heard of it? The answer is that God has still sought to reach them throughout history, and I strongly suspect that his judgement of them is on a weighted scale that perfectly factors in how well the circumstances of their time and place allow. It makes one wonder if the Native American “Great White God” was Yahweh…or similar in so many other cultures…
On a similar note, Simeon’s story in Luke 2 shows that the so-called “silent years” weren’t actually silent. God never stopped speaking to individuals – he just put a pause on big national/biblical level prophecies.
The True Birthdate Of Christ
Merry Christmas everyone!
The past few days I’ve enjoyed these two sermons, which do wander a bit but also get pretty nerdy about the details about Jesus’ birth. Here’s a condensed version of what they make the case for, for all the other bible geeks out there:
- Josephus (a non-Christian Jewish historian for the Roman Empire) explains to us that the census was a special census – probably the first in history where some women had to register. This was because Rome was at peace, entering a golden age, going to declare Caesar Augustus “Father of the Nation”. This means several things:
- The reason Mary had to register for the census was because children *she* bore had claims to the throne of David, and she had to renounce challenging Caesar over them.
- The arrival of a new king wasn’t just a challenge to Herod, but a huge wrench into the political zeitgeist of the time across the entire Roman empire.
- The census was to occur in summer and early autumn to avoid harvest
- John the Baptist was 6 months older than Jesus.
- Jesus was 30 years old during the 15th year of Tiberius’ reign
- Jesus birthday was therefore between September of 3 BC and September of 2 BC
- Zachariah’s priestly duties were either May 19th-26th 4 BC or Nov. 22-29 4 BC
- This means John the Baptist’s conception was around either late May of 4 BC or early December of 4 BC
- This means John the Baptist was likely born around March 10 or September 10 of 3 BC
- This means Jesus would have been born in September of 3 BC or March of 2 BC
- Rosh Hashanah – the Festival of Trumpets – was September 11th, 3 BC.
- Revelations 12:1 – “A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.”
- The constellation Virgo (consisting of 12 stars) with the Sun in her midsection and the moon at her feet occurred only once in the history of the world, 5:53-6:35, September 11th, 3BC
- The star Spica representing the wheat Virgo is holding touched the horizon at 6:12, September 11th, 3BC.
- John 12:24 – “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a kernel of wheat alights to the earth and dies, it remains a single seed. But if it dies, it bears fruit.”
- This implies that the exact moment of Jesus’ birth was 6:12, September 11th, 3BC.
But! December 25th is a relevant date:
- The Bible says the magi – sorcerers and witches trained by the Babylonian school Daniel was put in charge of – showed up to a house, not the stables.
- They did not show up on Jesus’ actual birthday.
- This is reinforced by Luke using the word for Infant and Matthew using the word for Toddler
- Further reinforced by Herod needing to kill all under age 3.
- Christmas is co-opted from the Roman celebration of Saturnalia – a period of gift giving and sacrificing to the chief Roman God, Saturn
- The magi followed pagan customs and were celebrating Saturnalia to give gifts to the newborn God King.
- The “star in the east” the magi were following was likely the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in the constellation of Leo. Jupiter was the “star” of Kingship, Venus the “star” of Love, and they appeared as a single bright star only twice in human history – June 17th 2 BC and again December 25th of the same year, right as Saturnalia was concluding.
So Christmas is the celebration of God subjecting Pagan rituals to himself and turning their tribute to himself, and of the Magi’s gift giving.
The Prophecy About The Trump Shooting
This prophecy from 3 months ago has the details so accurate that even many atheists and agnostics are taking notice and questioning their unbelief:
Christians should definitely pray into some of the rest of this prophecy. Trump has been offered or perhaps experienced an intense moment with the Holy Spirit. Let’s pray that he gets radically saved and filled.
Update: I’m pretty much in agreement with the Remnant Radio guys here. I think it was a genuine prophecy but he’s also someone who seems to be paying too much attention to his own youtube following…
Are The Age Numbers Before The Flood Mistranslated?
This is quite the interesting theory.
The author is proposing that the age numbers before the flood contain an interesting mistranslation: the last digit is always 0,2,5, or 7 until we get to Noah himself, who ends in an 8.
The gist of the theory is this:
- The ancient Sumerians used a numeric system similar to the Roman system – lots of digits appended to each other
- The last digit always being one of those 4 could very well be a marker for 0, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4
- Suddenly the age of everyone becomes quite normal
- The archeological recovered record for Sumerian kings makes almost the same mistake pre- and post- flood: the Sumerians after the flood record their pre- flood kings as having lived thousands of years, but it’s easy to spot how they misinterpreted their own recovered records.
- Noah would be different because he made it through the flood.
I’ll have to think about this one, but it is intriguing. And in Genesis 6:3, God doesn’t say man was living longer than 120 years, only that he won’t.
I don’t think I buy the author’s later theory that Adam was a pre-flood Sumerian priest.
The Spiritual Power Of Your Speech
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Genesis 1:28
The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.
In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!”
“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”
Mark 11:12-14,20-25
I’ve had a speculative theory recently, not contradicted by any scripture that I can think of, but maybe impossible to confirm as well. Here’s the theory: God gave mankind dominion over the earth; when Jesus cursed the fig tree, or when he talks about commanding mountains to throw themselves into the sea, he obviously has the divine authority to do so…but could he also do so merely as a perfect man? Is Jesus’ statement about faith to move mountains not just about the power of faith but about the authority we have? Is that the level of spiritual power that we have been bestowed with? Think about this for a moment – it could explain a lot. It would explain why people who believe in “affirmations” seem to have some success with them, or why everyone’s seen or been that person with a bad attitude cursing everything around them only to have everything continue to get worse. Or think about how many people have steered entire nations or world history with just the power of their words – Churchill and Hitler…Lincoln…so many of our founding fathers…was the power of what those people said just from their arguments, or did they have spiritual force behind their words for better or worse?
We’re Christians. We believe in the spiritual – God, angels, demons….and yes, spiritual power behind the things we say. How much spiritual power did God give mankind way back in Genesis?
But here’s the thing – it doesn’t even matter. We’re Christians: above and beyond whatever amount of spiritual power you believe God granted us in the beginning, Jesus promised in his ascension that all authority on heaven and earth has been granted to him and that he is with us to the end of the age. That’s ALL authority, and it’s on our behalf.
Both of our previous two presidents have joked about using the administrative state to punish the other side. And each time the other side has been rightly outraged. Someone with that level of authority should not speak casually about abusing it. Let me reiterate a previous statement. ALL authority has been granted to Christ, and he will grant whatever we ask in proper faith. This is way higher than the level of authority the president has. Do you realize you speak with this authority? Do you realize the power behind your words? Bless the things you should bless in your life. Be very careful with the things you curse (although there is a biblical place for cursing, but that’s for another time). Do not treat lightly your words or make jokes you should not. Your words carry the power of the Holy Spirit – or at least they should. Treat them as such.
And Sometimes God Just Answers Prayers Directly…
Rethinking Jesus’ Birth
God’s Amazing Divine Timing
I have to testify about God’s amazing timing. For the past three years we’ve been constructing a second home to use as a getaway/rental income property. Near the end of this process we’ve really wanted to throw a party for all of the workers who built our house to show our appreciation for all of their hard work.
For various reasons, the party kept on getting delayed, repeatedly, until it finally happened this Friday. Not only did the party happen without a hitch, but unbeknownst to us, Friday night was the Lunar equinox, and in the middle of the party the moonrise created a stonehenge like effect through our whole house that caused an audible gasp in the party. It was truly spectacular, and it just boggles my mind that God would line things up for us with astronomical events.
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