American Vision

The goal in interpreting the Bible is to be familiar with a text and its context. The Bible can be made to say anything if verses are separated from their context and strung together with other verses separated from their context... americanvision.org/posts/joel-ric…

A pessimistic faith ruins Christian dominion. Israel lost forty years of dominion because the nation trusted the words of men and the circumstances of the world more than the word of God. americanvision.org/posts/ray-moor…

"The worst possible allies for the Jewish state are the fundamentalist Christians who want Jews to die and convert so they can bring on the second coming of their Lord. It is a false friendship." –Mark Alan Siegel americanvision.org/posts/dispensa…

Peter’s encouragement to the Church of his day was to be patient, to wait for God’s judgment to destroy those who were persecuting the faith and impeding its progress. “The end of all things is at hand,” he had written earlier (1 Pet. 4:7). americanvision.org/posts/a-thousa…

Eschatological ideas have consequences... americanvision.org/posts/episode-…

The “day of the Lord” is any time God comes to judge (evaluate). The phrase appears more than two dozen times, primarily in the books of Isaiah (2:12), Joel (2:11), and Amos (5:18-20), and often refers to temporal events such as foreign invasions, the capture of cities, or divine judgment on Israel and its enemies. americanvision.org/posts/is-there…

The Bible is read through the lens of today’s newsprint, a form of “newspaper exegesis.” When current events change, somehow the clear teaching of the Bible on these subjects also changes. Few people ever take the time to check what prophecy “experts” wrote ten years earlier. americanvision.org/posts/eschatol…

Preterists see Marxism, Islamism, and Secularism as worldview dead ends. They survive because Christians don’t have an earth-bound strategy and eschatology to confront and replace them. americanvision.org/posts/dispensa…

The rallying cry of the Reformation was ecclesia reformata quia semper reformanda est, “the church reformed because it must always be reforming.” This should be every Christian’s rallying cry. americanvision.org/posts/eschatol…

Gary comments on a recent interview that Tucker Carlson had with Carrie Prejean Boller about the nation of Israel. Boller makes very good points about the modern state of Israel not being the same as the biblical nation of Israel. americanvision.org/posts/episode-…

Bradfield claims that I believe and teach that oikoumenē only refers to the Roman Empire. I’ve never said any such thing. americanvision.org/posts/hopscotc…

James Talarico has been on The Joe Rogan Podcast and recently defeated Jasmine Crockett in a primary. His theological statements are as wacky and unbiblical as his politics. americanvision.org/posts/james-ta…

We can either survive or commit suicide—sink or swim—by using what we have at our disposal. americanvision.org/posts/castaway…

Many who read Matthew 24:14 conclude that there is no way the gospel could have been preached in the whole world before the destruction of the temple in AD 70. Our first commitment is to what the Bible says by letting its words explain what Jesus really meant. americanvision.org/posts/the-gosp…

Would Jews living in the first century have made the historical leap over the temple that was standing before them, and suppose Jesus was describing yet another temple when He never used the words new or rebuilt? americanvision.org/posts/the-myth…

Why do commentators skip over biblical history and claim that the prophecies regarding Israel’s return to the land were only fulfilled in the 20th century, specifically in 1948? americanvision.org/posts/whats-is…

The doctrine of sola scriptura has been questioned by several former Protestants who have embraced the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Once the doctrine of sola scriptura is rejected, a Pandora’s Box of doctrinal additions can be opened. americanvision.org/posts/sola-scr…

Every state constitution recognizes God, and there is no indication that these references refer to anyone other than the God of the Bible. Did Congress violate the First Amendment when it declared 1983 to be "The Year of the Bible?" americanvision.org/posts/texas-re…

Gary continues his overview of biblical eschatology by refuting current speculation about the “prophecy of Elam.” americanvision.org/posts/episode-…

Revelation describes events that were “soon” to take place (1:1; 22:6) because the time was “near” (1:3; 22:10). Not near to us today, but near to those who first read or heard Revelation. The time indicators are very clear. americanvision.org/posts/can-we-s…