The Netherlands: A Cautionary Tale By Jack Kinsella In 58 BC, Julius Caesar conquered Gaul, a region comprising modern-day northern Italy, all of France and Belgium, western Switzerland and parts of the Netherlands and Germany. In 1648, under the Treaty of Westphalia, the Netherlands was granted independence from Spain following…
The Fig Tree Generation By Jack Kinsella The restoration of the Jews to the Promised Land is one of the most staggeringly overt fulfillments of Bible prophecy to occur in the last 2,000 years. The Hebrew prophets all foretold an eventual restoration of Israel, even addressing the future state by…
Doubtful Disputations By Jack Kinsella I was reading through the private member’s only forum when I came across a post about Sunday worship. This is one of those non-issues that is an issue that still really isn’t an issue...and yet is. Indeed for some, it is a point of doctrine…
Drowning the Seed By Jack Kinsella I believe that the Bible calls us to be witnesses of Christ, and that there is no more perfect expression of God’s will in the life of a Christian than when he works to lead others to Christ. That said, what does one do,…
The Performer By Jack Kinsella “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.” (Romans 11:25) The “fulness of the…
Too Much Information By Jack Kinsella As I was casting about for inspiration this morning, the words ‘be still’ kept bouncing around in my brain. Generally speaking, that would be bad advice for a writer with a deadline. There is a lot going on in the world right now. Much…
And Curse Them That Curse Thee By Jack Kinsella Most of the inhabitants of the Arab world can trace their lineage back for centuries. To find someone who lives on land owned by his family for generations, and sometimes centuries, is not uncommon. Many live exactly the same way their…
The Legacy of Appeasement By Jack Kinsella “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana, A Life of Reason, Book One: Reason & Common Sense, 1916 Waffling, wavering, withdrawal, or appeasement — all in response to terrorism…the sentiment has any number of names and…
The Rise of the Global ‘Superchurch’ By Jack Kinsella According to the Book of the Revelation, during the Tribulation Period, the government of antichrist rests on three main pillars of power. In Revelation 13:1, we are introduced to the political beast: “And I stood upon the sand of the sea,…
Brains, Washed, Spun-Dry and Folded By Jack Kinsella The phrase ‘mind control’ refers to the successful control of the thoughts and actions of others without his or her expressed consent. In the most general sense, the term implies that the victim has given up some basic political, social, or religious…