The Methodist Voice

A conversation about differing ways of interpreting end times passages

Debbie Cooper asks Kendall questions from his sermon on 8-4-2024

How Do We Interpret the Book of Revelation?

https://kendallmeek.substack.com/p/how-do-we-interpret-the-book-of-revelation

Sermon from 8-4: The Judgment Seat of Christ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taYRKiCzWA0

What does being and overcomer look like day in and day out? What is being childlike vs. childish? What is the role of the Holy Spirit in helping us become an overcomer?

Our newest member at First Methodist Hobbs shares his story and asks questions about the Bible and the end times.

For a more in depth treatment on the timing of the rapture of the church see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1VTSBK6yIo

This episode seeks to address the question, given so many different interpretations about the next age, how can we be sure we are thinking about it correctly?

First Methodist Hobbs Youtube Channel

The body of Christ suffers from an abysmal lack of imagination about the Bible. It has been reduced to a handbook for relieving us of our guilt and suffering. A lingering guilt assisted by mediocre religious thinking. Satan is happy to assist us in remaining slaves to this kind of religion, because it keeps us completely oblivious to the absolute powder keg of wonders upon which we are sitting.

Don’t get me wrong, God wants to rescue us from our very real drowning guilt, and he has done so in Christ Jesus. But because we are ignorant we think once that work is accomplished in us we can just rest in relief and relax in the comfort of the life boat, waiting for the calming safe shores of eternity.

The truth is God hasn’t rescued us to relax and take it easy. He has recruited us for a dangerous and wild adventure. An adventure that leads to the discovery of great wonders and the uncovering of profound mysteries. God has hidden himself in the pages of scripture, and he is just waiting to be found so he can reward your spirit with awe.

Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.

Jesus deals the the doubt and unbelief of the disciples via the resurrection. Then he spends 40 days populating their minds with a message the is no longer inhibited by their skepticism. Their needs to be some repository of gunpowder of information for the Holy Spirit to be able to ignite in their minds and hearts.

Romans 10:13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

God himself has condescended to teach the way: For this very end he came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. O give me that book! At any price, give me the book of God! I have it: Here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be homo unius libri ("a man of one book").

--From the "Preface" to the Standard Sermons.

'Here I am: I and my Bible. I will not, I dare not, vary from this book, either in great things or small. I have no power to dispense with one jot or tittle what is contained therein. I am determined to be a Bible Christian, not almost, but altogether. Who will meet me on this ground? Join me on this, or not at all.'"

— Sermon #116 "Causes Of The Inefficacy Of Christianity"

Sermon from June 09, 2024

Is the Rapture Doctrine Biblical? (Ben Witherington)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg8lRGqtMHc

Where Did Rapture Theology Come From? Ben Witherington III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_cVXdr8mVs

One of the principles that we have gleaned from our discussion of the Zadokian, or Melchizedekian priesthood is that it is possible to understand with clarity what God is saying and doing. Also, and just as importantly, we can know with a significant measure of certainty what God is going to do in the future. That is, if we will do the work and put forth the effort to learn the testimony of scripture, assisted by the teaching of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Read the Full Article Here: https://kendallmeek.substack.com/p/parousia-part-4

BASED upon all that we have learned from how God worked in the first prophetic cycle of the coming Messiah, let’s consider how God might work similarly in the second prophetic cycle, possibly coming upon us sooner than you might think. Remember, the majority of the institutional religious leaders were apostate and wrong in regards to what God was doing in their day and time. Because their doctrine was wrong (especially in regard to Biblical prophecy), they misunderstood the assignments and roles they were to play in God’s unfolding plans and purposes. Not only did they not work with God, they actively worked as his enemies. In contrast to the majority religious establishment, the marginalized minority or the remnant (represented by the Zadok priesthood and Essenes), were in agreement with God and able to both cooperate and participate in what God was doing. It is for that reason they would eventually disappear from the pages of history. BECAUSE THEY ALL BECAME CHRISTIANS.

Read Full Article Here: https://kendallmeek.substack.com/p/parousia-part-3

Christmas is a tale of two babies. As you know the mothers were cousins and both families received visits from the high ranking angel Gabriel to announce their conception. Today we are going to talk about the lesser of the two babies, even though when he is grown it will be said of John by Jesus himself, “Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist” (Matthew 11:11).

Read the Article Here - https://kendallmeek.substack.com/p/parousia-part-2