Episodes

We grew up with the parable of the Lost Sheep. The 99 and the 1 that went astray. We all picture the return - the sheep draped across the shoulder of the shepherd. The celebration of his return. Well, if you were in my Bible study, I'd have you read ALL of Matthew 18. Don't let the parable of the lost sheep sit there without its context. You have heard this parable a hundred times. A shepherd, a hundred sheep, one lost. He leaves the ninety-nine and goes after it. You have heard it preached as...

The word "WORD" is heavier than at first glance. I heard this stated in a video. "A word is the way the inside of one person reaches the inside of another." There is a thought locked inside your head right now that nobody can see. It has no shape, no color, no sound. Then you speak and suddenly that invisible thing is in the room, crossing the air, landing inside someone else's mind. They know what you were thinking. The hidden became visible. The silent became heard. That is what a word does...

So I started today like it was going to be another Parable podcast. But it was a single line and didn't feel too difficult to grasp. I had in my notes that we were going to cover Matthew 13-51-52 as a Parable podcast but it was short and honestly didn’t need a lot of teaching. I still hold to the idea that it is not worthy of a separate parable study. But I couldn't walk past the scripture that is pointing straight back at me. And so today is a bit more of a personal deep dive into the journey ...

You might be tempted to skip this. The Lamp on the Stand is often taught as part of the Salt and Light parable from Matthew. But strip Matthew from the equation, focus only on Luke and Mark and you get a completely different take on the Parable of the Lamp on the Stand. Often, we try to harmonize texts across gospels. In this case, if you take that approach, you miss a LOT of what Luke and Mark are telling you. Let's face it, we live in a distracted world.How often do you walk into a room, or...

Perhaps the best test for watchfulness is for times when you could be wrong. We considered the possibility of the person holding on to the pretribulation rapture theology. He has a chart. He knows the order. He knows which stage he will not be here for. And it doesn't happen the way he knew it would... Jesus told His disciples something else. He sealed the hour and He said so. And then He told them exactly what they would be here for: synagogues, magistrates, delivered up, afflicted, killed. In...

Solving the Mystery of the Restrainer was the subject of a recent podcast. However, once we landed on the identity of the restrainer, we noticed a whole new window of revelation open. The baseball coach or the tennis coach refers to the follow-through. You don’t swing at the ball; you swing through it. Done correctly, the ball flies much farther. The original article opened some doors that were literally that - open. Once you walk through the doors, you see what’s on the other side with amazing...

There’s a passage that was uttered by Paul in Thessalonians that has puzzled Christians for centuries: 2 Thessalonians 2-5-7. Something or someone was restraining the full appearance of the lawless one until God's appointed time. Paul assumes his readers knew the identity of this restraining force from previous teaching. There are many theories and that’s all that you can call them. And that’s how we left it in our prior podcast. But then I decided to dig deeper on the premise that no, we don’...

They watched Him heal a man who was blind and mute, and they called it the devil. Nobody in that crowd said the man was still blind. Nobody said the demon was still there. The miracle was admitted in full. Then the men in charge — the scribes down from Jerusalem, the Pharisees who had already met to decide how to kill Him — gave it a new name. This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. They did not say it to His face. They said it to the crowd. The crowd h...

If you haven't heard Ray Comfort's sermon called "Hell's Best Kept Secret", it is worth listening to. It is a fair indictment of the use of the altar call and the sinner's prayer. Revealed by his own analysis, "80 to 90% of those making decisions for Christ were falling away from the faith that is modern evangelism with its methods was creating something like 80 to 90 backsliders with every hundred decisions for Christ." He goes on to cite this statistic: "in 294,000 decisions for Christ in just...

We’ve fallen for this, I admit it. I mean us too. Rabbit Holes and Meditations is a journey. You can easily pull up our podcasts on Rapture and see a variety of interpretations. We don’t hide what we used to believe. The point is that we keep searching. Today, I rest in this one thought. If a person can imagine an end times scenario where he is looking up to the heavens and wondering why he is still standing there and his brother was taken, wondering why perhaps his brother was raptured and he ...

I know you're hearing it in every religious circle. We are in end times. Right? It's right around the corner. We will see Christ return in our lifetime. There is a lot going on in the world. Iran! AI! Economic uncertainty. Christian persecution (if you're not seeing this, you have to perhaps look outside your own social bubble), Political uncertainty. Transhumanism. Israel instability. Ukraine. and on and on. And very often, in that same circle, the is a person with the charts - mapping out th...

You're in a discussion and Jesus is pointing out the obvious errors of a person you recognize. The example is plain to everyone. You're all nodding up and down in concert. Yeah, I know that guy. Then something lights up in the deep dark recesses of your brain. It's only a faint spark but it's there. It is the spark of recognition, and the recognition is that Jesus is actually talking about you. Don't be ashamed... you were all nodding up and down. You are all there with the same level of convict...

There is going to come a time where you question what you should be doing vs. what God can and will or will not do. Ultimately the outcome is His, so you ask yourself, what’s the point of me even trying to do something, really? Not to take the credit but to contribute in whatever way you can in the outcome. You have the motivation and the desire; you don’t want any of the credit. You just want the issue solved and you can’t just stand idly by. It is a tension worth wrestling with. Notes for The...

You've heard it, usually from the person who is suggesting that you may be right in principle, but you have no right to point the finger. Well... it's more complicated than that. Notes for To Judge or Not to Judge Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/to-judge-or-not-to-judge/

I was just watching the news this morning and wondering what the world would be like if we consumed our Bible like we do the news. Soundbites curated by those hearing the news and changing the channel or switching to a different feed when the news doesn’t just fit what you believe to be true. I think we live our daily lives in our own curated state of delusion sometimes. So today, you are confronted with the debate of the Christian and the Muslim. You switch to the proper channel that feeds you...

A genuinely good person can be one of the hardest people to approach. We tackle this subject straight on with the person (either an non-practicing believer or even an atheist) who says: "I'm a good person. If God is a Loving God, and I believe He is, then I'll see you in heaven." I'm A Good Person Article Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/im-a-good-person/

We recently discussed two corrections associated with modern Biblical prophecy. The Holy of Holies of Bible Prophecy, and The Continual were discussed in previous podcasts deconstructing the text in Daniel 9 and in Daniel 12 respectively. This podcast posits the theory that there are two deceptions running concurrently. There is the false religion which details the Islam religion. It is not just a counterfeit to Christianity, it’s end times eschatology mirrors Christian end times even with a cas...

You have heard this one preached as encouragement. Be salty. Shine bright. Make a difference. That is not what is happening on that hillside. Look at who is standing there. Matthew tells us exactly who came. The sick. The tormented. The demon-possessed. The lunatic. The palsied. They came from Galilee and Decapolis and Judaea and from beyond Jordan. Matthew names their afflictions and he names where they came from. He names no rulers. No elders. No men of standing. And two verses earlier He h...

What if the moments that feel like your life is falling apart are actually the moments when God is closest? Most of us want spiritual growth to happen on our terms — when life is calm, predictable, and under control. But Scripture tells a very different story. Again and again, God meets people when the map has burned up: Abraham leaving everything familiar, Hagar alone in the wilderness, Mary surrendering the future she expected, Paul blinded on the road to Damascus, and the disciples walking t...

A man can go forty years without doing the thing he wants to do. Fear will hold him. Reputation will hold him. Consequence, conscience, the people who'd be hurt — all of it holds. And every one of those holds the hand. Not one of them touches the wanting. He isn't free. He's a man leaning on a door that never stops pushing back. This episode is about what it would take for the pushing to stop. Article for The Regression of Sin Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-reg...

In our last study, we asked a single question about Daniel chapter nine, verse twenty-seven: where does the text say that the one who confirms the covenant is the Antichrist? The answer was that it doesn't. The identification is supplied. But an alert reader has a comeback ready, and it's a good one. It's three chapters later. Daniel twelve, verse eleven — the daily sacrifice taken away, the abomination set up, twelve hundred and ninety days counted from that moment. That's the end. That's futu...

A well-known pastor recently laid out thirty-seven numbered events of the end times in under an hour — the rapture, the treaty, the temple, the mark, Armageddon, the kingdom. Rapid-fire citations. Confident delivery. And one instruction repeated to his audience: don't listen to me — go check the Bible yourself. So we did. What we found wasn't heresy. It was something more interesting. All thirty-seven points hang from a single word in Daniel 9:27 — the pronoun "he." Who confirms the covenant wi...

He asked a question he already knew the answer to. A man who studied the law for a living stood up in a crowd and asked Jesus what he had to do to inherit eternal life. Jesus sent him back to the book he had spent his life inside. And the man answered perfectly — love God with everything, love your neighbour as yourself. Word for word. Nothing missing. Jesus told him he was right, and to go do it. That should have been the end of it. It was not. Luke tells us exactly what happened next and ex...

You think it was about the ones the tower fell on. It was never about them. It was about you — the one still standing. Jesus is not preaching to a crowd of seekers here. Someone in the crowd hands Him the news: Pilate has butchered Galileans at the altar, their blood mixed with their sacrifices. And underneath the report is the oldest comfort in the world — they must have had it coming. They were worse. We’re fine. He takes it away twice. “Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above ...