W. Kent Smith
For more than forty years, W. Kent Smith has immersed himself in the teachings of the greatest biblical scholars of the ages—William Barclay, C.S. Lewis, W. Gene Scott, et al. More importantly during that time, he has immersed himself in The Bible itself. Add to that, Kent’s unique perspective on history, humanity, and life, and the result is a one-of-a-kind take on biblical history and theology. What that means to you as a fellow truth seeker is a message unhindered by many outmoded traditions of biblical interpretation.
Beholden to no deacon board or school of thought, Kent has remained free to tread where others are unwilling to tread, and because of that, a brand-new view of Scripture has emerged. Not some new revelation, mind you, in the sense of it being above and beyond The Bible itself. What we are talking about is a fresh understanding of what Scripture has been saying all along, one that’s been hidden in plain sight, waiting for someone to connect the dots, to reveal a picture that’s been lying dormant until now.
Kent lives in West Covina, California, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles. He can be contacted at wkent@loststorieschannel.com, or lodestarcinema@msn.com.
Beholden to no deacon board or school of thought, Kent has remained free to tread where others are unwilling to tread, and because of that, a brand-new view of Scripture has emerged. Not some new revelation, mind you, in the sense of it being above and beyond The Bible itself. What we are talking about is a fresh understanding of what Scripture has been saying all along, one that’s been hidden in plain sight, waiting for someone to connect the dots, to reveal a picture that’s been lying dormant until now.
Kent lives in West Covina, California, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles. He can be contacted at wkent@loststorieschannel.com, or lodestarcinema@msn.com.
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Unbelievers often use death, disease, and suffering as evidence to undermine the idea of God's existence, while believers struggle to reconcile these hardships with the concept of a loving Creator. Our aim here is to explore this complex topic and offer insights based on scriptural evidence that aim to provide a satisfying answer for both parties involved in this age-old argument.
Take, for example, the sensational tale of two men in a bed, and two women at the mill, in which one is said to be taken, while the other is left behind. According to tradition, this scenario speaks of the Rapture of the Church. On one hand, you have believers in Christ who couch this tale in the context of the Apostle Paul’s comments regarding a “catching away in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.” And on the other hand, you have unbelievers who still see this unlikely story as a compelling mystery along the lines of the spine-tingling tales of alien abduction. In either case, you have a story, which despite its far-fetched elements, that grows and grows with each passing year.
Unfortunately, the end result of all this well-meaning publicity is a complete check-out in terms of the actual context in which the verses appear that have Jesus speaking of those who will be taken and those who will be left behind. Because should one ever take the time to examine the context of the words of the Lord Himself, we’d be shocked indeed to find that not only is there a bed and a mill involved, but there is also the completely ignored aspect of this story, which just happens to involve eagles, or to be more precise, vultures… and dead bodies, or to be more precise, corpses fallen in battle.
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But what if there really is tangible evidence of God’s control over history? And what if that evidence shows that God never ceased controlling human history, just because we’re told the curtain dropped after those final acts in the days of The New Testament?
And if there really is evidence like that, then what would we call the book that told the story of that evidence? No doubt, it would be called On Earth as It is On Heaven: The Promise of America, Technology, and the New Earth.
This is that book, and this is that story.
The conclusion offered here: Not only does this evidence support a 5,500-year chronology from Adam to Christ, but more importantly, it also constitutes more than a mere shift in historical timetables. That is because the 4,000-year chronology does nothing to support the idea of God’s faithfulness to humanity, while a proper understanding of the 5,500-year chronology does everything to provide verifiable proof that when God makes a promise, He keeps it right on time.