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Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. –James 1:12 (ESV)

Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. –Galatians 6:9 (ESV)

We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. –Romans 5:3-5 (ESV)

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. –James 1:2-4 (ESV)

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! –1 Chronicles 16:11 (ESV)

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? –Romans 8:31 (KJV)

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Dr. Candy Gunther Brown, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Harvard, 2012).

Larry Burkett, Business By the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace (Thomas Nelson, 1998).

William Gouge, Building a Godly Home. 3 vols (Reformation Heritage Books, 2013).

John Flavel, Preparations for Sufferings (Banner of Truth, 1997).

John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress (Whitaker House, 1981).

Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God (Whitaker House, 1982).

Luke, the beloved physician.
–Colossians 4:14–

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Dr. Candy Gunther Brown, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Harvard, 2012).

—. “Testing Prayer: Science and Miraculous Healing” (Veritas Forum).

—. “Testing Prayer: Pentecostals, Science, and Healing” (Institute for Pentecostal Theology).

Global Awakening, “Mass Healing Breaks Out In Worship.”

—. “School of Healing and Impartation” event ($150).

—. “Healing Testimonies.”

We Are Vineyard, “Candy and Josh Brown: Bridging the Worlds of Science and Faith.”

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.¹³ And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.¹⁴ And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.¹⁵ And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

–Revelation 20:11-15 (KJV)–

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Immediately AFTER THE TRIBULATION of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man COMING in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall GATHER together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. –Matthew 24:29-31 (KJV)

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the COMING of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our GATHERING together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away FIRST, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. –2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 (KJV)

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George Eldon Ladd, The Blessed Hope (Eerdmans, 1956). Shows that the early church fathers taught a post-tribulation rapture view. The Antichrist was the first aspect to be expected in the end-time scheme, not a sudden rapture. Irenaeus and especially Hippolytus wrote quite a bit about the Antichrist in their post-tribulation eschatologies.

Robert Gundry, The Church and the Tribulation (Zondervan, 1973).

Douglas Moo, “A Case for the Posttribulation Rapture,” Three Views on the Rapture (Zondervan, 2018).

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. –Revelation 22:11-12 (KJV)

The Jesus Trip, “The Universal Gospel – The Consuming Fire Episode 4 of 10.”

The 15 Anathemas Against Origen (553 A.D.) – towards the bottom of the page.

Westminster Confession 10.3.

46:30 – Correction: instead of saying “genus,” I probably should have said “kingdom,” as in the Animal Kingdom and its different “classes” of animals. This is what you have in Genesis 1.

THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.  –Revelation 19:10 (KJV)

The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. –1 Timothy 4:1 (KJV)

Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.   –Matthew 10:32-33 (KJV)

Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.   –1 John 4:3 (KJV)

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Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations, ch. 7: “The Scottish Covenanters.”

Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience (Banner of Truth, 1967), ch. 7: “Considerations on dreams, visions, etc.”

Daniel Jennings, ed. The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley, ch. 9: “John Wesley’s Experience with Visions and Dreams.”

Thomas Boys, The Suppressed Evidence (Hamilton, Adams, and Co, 1832), ch. 3-4. Prophetic dreams and their fulfillments among the Waldenses and the Reformers.

Samuel Rutherford, A Survey of the Spirituall Antichrist (London, 1648).

R. Loren Sandford, Purifying the Prophetic (Chosen Books, 2005).

Jeremiah Johnson, Cleansing and Igniting the Prophetic: An Urgent Wake-Up Call (Destiny Image, 2018).

Andrew Strom, Why I Left the Prophetic Movement (The Revolution, 2012).

Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1984).

Christopher Morgan, Hell Under Fire (Zondervan, 2004).

Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis: 21st Century (Thomas Nelson, 2009).

Dave Hunt and T. A. McMahon, The Seduction of Christianity: Spiritual Discernment in the Last Days (Harvest House, 1990).

Adolphe Tanquerey, The Spiritual Life: A Treatise on Ascetical and Mystical Theology (TAN Books, 2001).

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I believe that the New Apostolic Reformation, or charismatics involved in dream interpretation, prophetic ministry, healing, and deliverance, desperately need to be balanced out by the likes of:

1. ZONDERVAN ACADEMIC. Mainly influenced by Southern Baptist theology.

2. BANNER OF TRUTH. Leonard Ravenhill’s favorite publisher. Calvinist.

3. SCHMUL PUBLISHING. Wesleyan.

4. REFORMATION HERITAGE BOOKS. Calvinist.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, it is because there is no light in them. –Isaiah 8:20 (KJV)