Anti-Bible Attack Dogs :: By Terry James

At this late hour at the end of the age, it’s obvious to anyone who’s truly attuned to God’s Word and is watching as instructed by the Lord (Mark 13:37): Christ’s call in the Rapture must be very near. Proof includes that Heaven’s enemy has, it is clear, unleashed the “attack dogs” against God’s Holy Word.

Those “hounds of hell” have chosen a well-known animal-activist entity whose name by reputation seems nonthreatening while Satan moves forward with his devilish plan. And it seems quite sad because the organization has done, I presume, without knowing very much about it, at least some level of good through its services.

Again we see the rapidly growing—and I believe intrinsically evil—AI technology coming to the forefront of society and culture. Those who are determined to insinuate their controlling, bullying influence have chosen to, through AI, directly attack the Word of God. The following illustrates that the attack dogs have been unleashed in a major way:

Once again, the Left is trying to appropriate the Bible for its own political purposes, this time with the help of artificial intelligence.

Yes, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals last week published a rather milquetoast rewrite of the book of Genesis entitled The Book: PETA’s Version of the Creation Story.

The result is inherently offensive, occasionally a tad funny, but ultimately rather underwhelming…

PETA—or the AI, which I’m convinced probably provided the best bits of this dilapidated drivel—decided to be slavishly derivative, repeating original locations and keeping the rough structure of Genesis while simultaneously scrapping the main theological message of the story and the major plot points that give the inspired Word its emotional heft.

In this incredibly sanitized version of the Bible, Cain isn’t a murderer; Nimrod stops being a hunter; Hagar is a chef; a dog takes the place of Isaac on Mount Moriah, and there is no sacrifice; Pharaoh’s butler and baker both live; and Pharaoh’s dreams involve vegan preaching, not the famine responsible for reuniting Jacob’s family. Somewhere between the AI and the wokescolds at PETA, basic details got lost.

For instance, Rachel dies in childbirth with Joseph rather than with his younger brother Benjamin (Genesis 35), and Benjamin miraculously appears as an elder brother to Joseph. Cain—still the villain of the story—sacrifices animal flesh to God while Abel sacrifices plants, which represents a reversal of the biblical story in which Abel sacrifices his prized sheep. PETA might as well have made Abel the villain, especially since it decided to scrap the murder anyway.

Most of the main characters—who have rather tremendous flaws in the original version of Genesis—are all morally spotless priests of the vegan religion here, preaching the virtues of soy and almond milk. They go from place to place, spreading the gospel of treating animals like people, and occasionally the animals speak on their own accord. (At one point, camels decide among themselves to teach the uneducated humans but then decide just to travel with them instead.)

Joseph’s brothers still decide to kidnap and sell their brother out of jealousy, but they also wouldn’t dare harm a goat to dip his multicolored coat in goat’s blood. Instead, they use beet juice. Yes, they contemplate murdering their own brother, but God forbid they touch an animal…

It seems that whoever at PETA rewrote Genesis lost interest after the first few chapters, letting AI do the rest. (“PETA Teams Up with AI to Rewrite the Bible, Tyler O’Neil/Daily Signal, May 16, 2023)

Some would view all this as drivel, as the writer puts it—just tongue-in-cheek fun-poking. But the God whose Son paid the price for all the sin of the world in the most horrific, humiliating way imaginable, I must believe, finds little humor here.

Neither is the serpent’s intention tongue-in-cheek. He wants to steal truth from and destroy every human being. He fully intends to do so in part by deceiving humans into thinking that neither he nor God even exists. Destroying the veracity of God’s Word is one of the chief ways he is trying to achieve his plan of destroying the human race.

Jesus is the Word.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:1-4).

Jesus said that, despite all of the devil’s attempts to destroy those who follow the Lord, we shouldn’t fear or be distracted. He, Jesus, has overcome the world (as well as the flesh and the devil).

Satan and all of Hell’s attack dogs will never destroy the Word of God. We have our Lord’s promise.

“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matthew 24:35).

And How Can They Hear? :: By Mark Tredecim

The words of Romans 10:11-15 are very familiar to believers. They provide us with confidence in God’s eternal plan for us. They are also a call to action for believers – “Share this good news with the unsaved before it is too late!”

“As Scripture says, ‘Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.’ For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!'” (Romans 10:11-15 NIV).

People are anxious about the state of the world. Many Christians see connections to end-times prophecies in the Bible. They want to be prepared for the events that may come soon. These Christians have been blessed by good teaching about the prophecies in the Bible. Many of these folks have read Biblically sound books about the coming events.

They look to websites like Rapture Ready to get more insight.

Even more people are oblivious to what the Bible says about the end times. Some of them are genuine believers, but their pastors or priests don’t preach about these prophecies. These Christians are ill-equipped to see the connections and are under-motivated to share this information with their unsaved friends and family. These Christians will be taken by Jesus in the coming Rapture, but the loved ones they leave behind won’t know what happened or why it happened.

The vast majority of people living today are not Christians. Their views of the end times (if any) are based on false teachings of some faux religion or cult, or the pagan script and imagery from the latest “superhero” movie. The end-times events will catch them completely by surprise. They will be confounded by the Rapture and will suffer in the Tribulation. Many of them will turn to Jesus and become Tribulation Saints (praise God!), but the vast majority will reject Christ and will be subjected to God’s judgment for eternity. If only someone had brought them the Good News of Christ before it was too late!

But the meaning of “too late” is underappreciated in our era.

The coming end times events will radically impact humanity. The following chart depicts these events (God knows the precise numbers of people at each point, but these are reasonable approximations for this demonstration). Will those who perish hear the Good News before it is too late?

I salute the Christian teachers, scholars and authors who share the Gospel through their various ministries. I especially appreciate those who see the signs of our times and who tell others about the end times prophecies and their significance to us.

Thank you for the great sermons, articles, web resources, speeches, podcasts, videos and books that you provide.

Many of these end-time resources are very scholarly, deep and detailed. They are a blessing to those who want to dig deeper into these subjects and to those who are preparing their own sermons and writings about the end times. Thank you for assisting me in my end times novels and my nonfiction writing.

My goal for the Tribulation Pilgrims’ Progress novel series and my new nonfiction study guide Lifeline, A Guide to Surviving the End Times is to provide reader-friendly Biblically-sound information to people (saved and unsaved) who don’t know much (if anything) about the Bible’s end times prophecies. I hope these readers will learn the truth and will see the relevance to their own lives.

I hope many of them will turn to Christ.

Christian readers with more knowledge of the end times will find my books to be a convenient summary of key topics and are likely to enjoy the fictional storyline of the novels. These books are written for readers living in these last days of the Church Age and for future readers who are left behind, living in the early days after the Rapture.

Now is the time to carry the Good News to these people.

Mark C. Tredecim

www.markctredecim.com