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God’s Plan for Heaven, Eternity, & the Universe Explained – Conversational Style

Book review by Terry James

Dave’s book is not a new title, but it is new in the sense that it presents greatly expanded Bible truth and helps for Christian living from the original volume. My endorsement for that first edition reads as follows.

Dave Cogburn’s book, God’s Plan for Heaven, Eternity, & the Universe Explained, is a volume I believe is most timely.

By that I mean that this generation, faced by challenges of every sort, from cultural confusion to technological temptations, needs to be turned back toward God’s prescription for living life as it should be lived.

The author has spoken in simple, entertaining style, yet in firm terminology that gives wise direction to the young in particular. But it is a book for all who want to understand how to have an intimate, personal relationship with God now and forever.

I give it a thumbs-up in every sense.

This just-released edition warrants even more effusive praise. I’m most pleased to give it great applause –and recommend it highly to you, the reader.

The title of this book, God’s Plan for Heaven, Eternity, & the Universe Explained – Conversational Style is exactly that. This book, in its new format, summarizes God’s plan in an easy-to-read manner (a relaxed, conversational style) and will help you understand it from the beginning of creation to when the human race is over and everyone is living in eternity with God or separated from God. It reduces God’s plan for humankind from a one-year Bible reading plan to a three-to-four-hour “enlightening” reading plan.

The only thing that truly matters for every human being is eternity, and all of God’s plan is about how to know Him and spend it with Him.

I find Dave’s book superbly unique. It is written for everyone, from people with no Bible knowledge to those with some Bible knowledge—and even biblical scholars will learn things most have never considered before, such as why God created the universe.

Dave Cogburn says there is a definitive reason with which he has never seen anyone disagree. And he goes on to make his case in fine fashion. He says also that most people are aware of what the Rapture is but are unaware of the hidden “STORY” behind it. This story alone, he says, is God’s masterpiece on how His whole plan for humankind will unfold. It is, he declares further, the most awe-inspiring story in the Bible, which culminates with God’s greatest miraculous event in human history. It is, Dave says, “time” for Christianity, and even the world, to marvel at its revelation.

The author also shows the piece de resistance biblical truth most of Christianity “stays away from.”

He relates that God created human beings perfect, but knowing we would sin against Him from the very beginning and be born with a sin nature is the greatest thing God has ever done or will ever do in all of eternity. At the end, the author lets you, the reader, prove that great truth!

This book will help you understand not only what God has done in His plan, but, more importantly, why He has done it that way. It answers life’s most important questions, such as: Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Why did God create us in the first place? What is the real meaning of being created in God’s image?” It is the “secret” to everything in God’s plan.

Many of you suspect we are living in the end times just before the Rapture, followed by the Tribulation and Jesus’ Second Coming. Dave Cogburn shows why it is our generation that should experience that return, and how close we are to it.

The author looks deeply into God’s plan for His domain in Heaven, eternity, and the universe and finds that it consists of a lot more than the obvious. He presents that Heaven has a transitional destiny many people aren’t aware of. Eternity, he says, is a lot more than most people think. Its revelation makes manifest how you will never look at sin in the same way again. Understanding why God created the universe and how He uses it in His plan helps bring a new perspective to its existence.

Dave hopes to help the reader learn how these three areas of God’s domain are a paradigm shift.

Today, we live in a society that seeks instant gratification, instant information, and instant knowledge. Prepare your eyes, your mind, and possibly even your heart to experience God’s biblical truth in a way that “embraces” that expectation.

This book is a short journey filled with wondrous biblical intrigue that can ignite a new understanding and enthusiasm to learn what God’s plan is all about. Welcome to God’s Plan for Heaven, Eternity, & the Universe Explained – Conversational Style.

I still give it a thumbs-up in every sense. No. Make that two thumbs up!

God’s Plan for Heaven, Eternity, & the Universe Explained – Conversational Style

Author: Dave Cogburn

Order below:

God’s Plan For Heaven, Eternity And The Universe Explained: CONVERSATIONAL STYLE: Cogburn, David: 9798325090042: Amazon.com: Books

Failing Israel

This week, I was listening to a Bible prophecy teacher and heard a phrase that would make a tremendous book title. From my days as a Christian book editor, I could just imagine the possibilities for such a book, with this great title.

I contacted the teacher and suggested a book project based on the radio show theme. I was taken aback when I was told that it wouldn’t work, because teachings based on Israel get “record low” response!

Wow.

How can this be? After more than 50 years of Bible prophecy teaching and emphasis on Israel, the Jews, and their key place in history?

Beginning just after the Six Day War, evangelicals had a tremendous, historic opportunity to educate church goers in all denominations and associations.

I’m going to say something that will upset some of you, but I believe it.

I think there wasn’t enough education about what Israel is, who the Jews are, etc. By contrast, there was too much emphasis on our pet topics and themes, such as naming the antichrist or some such. The antichrist, yet future of course, is a massive topic. So are other popular books and talks. But too many times, these things were discussed exclusively while real, serious education was ignored.

I don’t care who the antichrist is going to be. I do care about God’s Chosen People.

I’m annoyed that I have to qualify this by saying, of course there were and are very good teachers out there doing exactly what I’m talking about. But there weren’t nearly enough of them. Instead, we built whole cottage industries of a certain type of prophecy teaching, and at the same time, most people did not have a grasp of the history of the Jews, and their role in the world.

You see, I have another theory that too many in the pews—if they get any Israel or prophecy teaching at all—have a disconnect when it comes to Israel of the Bible and Israel today. Very bluntly, too many people don’t like Jews on a personal level, but they love the romanticized concept of ancient Israel. As a book industry expert told me once (and I’ve noted here many times), evangelicals like Israel, but they don’t necessarily like Jews.

That in part is why we have huge swaths of the Church world that aren’t truly interested. Of course, the Church Growth Movement and the Rick Warrens of the world bear much of that responsibility (that crowd despises Bible prophecy teaching and are just as likely to attend a pro-Palestinian event as one for Israel).

This leads to our present lament: Israel is being pushed into the much-anticipated war with Hezbollah, and hostages still languish in Gaza torture chambers, but Christians by and large just aren’t interested. They don’t care.

Another factor is something else that will offend, but I’ll also say it. The Southern Baptist Convention was hijacked sometime back by Reformed seminary types that do not like ancient or modern Israel, and they do not like Jews. Just read social media if you don’t believe me. In the hours and days after October 7, I was stunned by the cold, even sinister comments from professing Christians, about modern Israel. As in, “They deserve everything they get.”

That’s almost a verbatim quote I saw many times.

Even when I sounded the alarm about one prominent pastor that uttered just such a cold response…I was attacked! His actions weren’t spotlighted in the responses to my article, but the messenger, quoting him, was attacked.

Nobody cared. I sent an article I wrote about it to six media outlets I’ve written for, for years. Not one would touch it. One editor told that if he said why it was rejected, “I’d lose my job.”

We have a Jew problem in the Church.

Needless to say, I don’t mean that the way the Nazis meant it. Because it isn’t the Jews that are the problem. The problem—the plague, the scourge, the stain on all of us—is that I believe a majority of people in the Church today don’t give a you-know-what for happens to the Jews.

Unless they want to do us all a favor and disappear, right?

The most outrageous, medieval-level anti-Semitic filth is aimed at Israel right now…from the Church. And the level of ignorance spreads.

I would never abandon my faith, because my Jewish Creator is my life. But I would abandon and will abandon former and current friends that have a problem with Jews. If I have to stand alone with my Jewish brothers and sisters, I’ll happily do that and sleep like a baby at night.

The prophecy teacher I mentioned at the outset should launch a loud tirade aimed at the bums in the Church that don’t care about Jews or Israel. Instead, another voice is muted.

Disgusting.

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Book Review God’s Plan for Heaven, Eternity…Explained :: By David Cogburn

17 Jun 2024