October 25, 2026

The Return of Power for the Church’s Finest Hour

Luke 10:18 (NKJV) And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”
Without going too much into WHY Jesus said this, it has long intrigued me as to WHEN Jesus saw what He did here and how it fits in the chronology: And how it might be related to the events of Revelation 12. — Question from Eric H

I believe the evidence points in the direction that Jesus sees in the disciple’s jubilant report of success in casting out demons in His name, not only Satan’s present loss of power, but the sign and foretaste that by Jesus’ binding of the strongman (Mk 3:27), Satan’s ultimate downfall has already been set in irresistible motion. With this confirmation of success, Jesus promises yet further success in the future, even power “over all the power of the enemy” (Lk 10:17-20).

Later, when His hour was most immediately at hand, Jesus would say, “NOW is the judgment of this world; NOW shall the prince of this world be cast out” (Jn 12:13). With His proclamation from the cross, “it is finished” (Jn 19:30), and the resurrection as proof of the Father’s full acceptance of His blood as the sin offering (Isa 53:11; Ro 4:25), all that was necessary to set in motion the end of Satan’s tenure as the “god of this age” (2Cor 4:4) was NOW accomplished (“finished” / tetelestai).

The wound to the serpent’s head had been fatally inflicted (Gen 3:15) but the full conquest and subjugation of Satan’s influence would require two more decisive stages. Those being Christ’s return at the end of the unequaled tribulation (Mt 24:29-31; 2Thes 2:8; Rev 19:19-20) and the final and brief revolt at the end of the thousand years (compare Ps 110:1; Acts 2:34-35; 3:21; 1Cor 15:24-25; Heb 2:8-9; Rev 20:4-10 with Isa 24:22).

I think all of this has something to do with what scholars have called, “the already and the not yet”, referring to the mysterious tension between what has been both newly fulfilled and newly revealed versus what remains to be fulfilled in light of the ‘unexpected’ revelation of Messiah’s coming, departure, and return to Jerusalem. It is what Jesus called, “the mystery of the kingdom of God” (Mk 4:11), and Paul called, “the mystery of the gospel” (Ro 16:25-26; Eph 6:19 with 1Pet 1:11-12).

The revelation of the mystery made clear that the ultimate victory over Satan and the full bringing in of the kingdom on THIS present earth would be realized in stages.

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Snow on Mt Hermon photo by Benny Rotlevy

reggiekelly

October 24, 2026

The Divine Determination of Israel’s Salvation

Can a creature truly worship God as sovereign while reserving the right to condemn His choices whenever His mercy is distributed differently from what that creature considers fair? – text from Adam S.

Excepting the perennial “remnant according to the election of grace” (Ro 11:5), the prophets knew that despite regular appeals to turn and live, the nation would never “turn” (teshuvah), as a nation, until the future DOL when God Himself would turn them (“turn us and we shall be turned”; Ps 80:3; 85:4; Lam 5:21; Isa 63:17; Jer 31:18; Eze 20:33-44).

If history’s amazing confirmation of the inerrancy of prophetic revelation has taught us anything, it is that if the fulfillment of the promise were waiting on Israel’s compliance, it would be waiting forever. But God has DETERMINED the “set time” to favor Zion (Ps 102:13). He has not left the end to human cooperation, but with unalterable, unavoidable certainty (Dan 11:36), He has “determined” its nature and set the limits of its duration (Dan 7:25; 8:19; 9:24; 11:27, 35; 12:7; 2Thes 2:3, 6-8).

It is only by such an irrevocable divine determinism that every word of God can be guaranteed of certain fulfillment (Mt 5:18; 24:35). Obviously, something much more than mere foreknowledge working with the not so malleable nature of man is at play here.

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tomquinlan

May 31, 2026

Apocalyptic Righteousness – [VIDEO and TRANSCRIPT]

What kind of righteousness have we been brought into in Christ? In this segment Reggie probes the nature of Israel’s righteousness “in That Day”, and… by extension… our righteousness now.

From a January 2016 GFW Saturday night Bible Study, this Session was on Isaiah 17.

Full Transcript below:

Tom, it would be an interesting exercise to go through the prophets. Of course, actually, not just the Old Testament, because the New Testament is very clear that Jerusalem is the special object of Antichrist’s hatred, the treading under foot for 42 months. So this is not some Old Testament thing that a bunch of, you know, hyper literalists are latching on to here.

But this is everywhere. This is everywhere you read about the Day of the Lord. Everywhere.

Not only when that name, that word is particularly used, and it’s close associated terms in that day and in those days, etc. And then often the things that will be accomplished at that day are mentioned that have fulfillment in no other time. I mean, I know there’s some partial fulfillment throughout history, but.

So all roads lead to the Day of the Lord. And I just want to give a little story. It had to do with something that John Piper wrote some years back, and Art gave it to me, and Art was impressed with it, and I somewhat was, too.

Art said, what do you think of this? In other words, is he right? My answer was yes and no. Well, that was tentative at the time. Right now it would be a resounding no.

But it was very appealing because it asked this question, does Israel, in their present unbelief on this side of new covenant righteousness, do they have, and he used this term, talk about a slippery term. I don’t suggest at all that he did it consciously, of course, but it’s a disarming term. The word is, and some of you all may have heard this, does Israel in their present state have a quote-unquote divine right to the land? Well, first of all, that’s disarming, because how can you at once speak of grace and right? You know, there is no right, yet, you know, God has put his whole big picture together around one nation.

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reggiekelly

April 19, 2026

The End of the Law

“For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.” — 2 Corinthians 3:11

What is the “end” here in mind? This has to be in reference to the law of Moses (as a means of justification!), not the law itself. Am I correct in stating this?

I think the law ends, not as instruction, or its divine use to drive the sinner to Christ, but as a killing letter ministering death.

That has ended by a death, His death, of course, but also our death to the law as an accusing power, threatening the conscience with all the thunderclaps and black terrors of Sinai.

This ministration of death ends with the ministration of the Spirit of liberty!

Until the Spirit comes, until He is given on the sole basis of the gift of faith in Christ’s perfected obedience under the law offered up in His atoning death, we are dead in our sins.

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tomquinlan

February 27, 2026

The Mideast Crisis and the Witness of Prophecy

It should be no secret that before Israel’s final deliverance at the Lord’s return to Zion (Isa 59:20; Joel 3:16; Ro 11:26), the fledgling new nation, recently regathered back to the Land, yet in a state of unbelief (Jer 30:3; Eze 22:19-22; 38:8; Joel 3:1-2; Zeph 2:1-2) would pass through their greatest trial as a nation.

Jeremiah would call this time of unequalled tribulation, “the time of Jacob’s trouble” compared to a woman in labor (Jer 30:6-7). Daniel would call it “a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time”, and Jesus would cite Daniel’s prophecy using nearly the same words, “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Mt 24:21).

This time would come in the “latter days” (Jer 30:24; Eze 38:16; Dan 10:14; 12:1), not only after a single generation of 70 years, as prophesied by Jeremiah (Jer 25:11-12; 29:10), but this time after “many generations” of Jewish absence and perpetual desolation of the Land” (Isa 61:4; Eze 36:4; 38:8).

After this preliminary return in unbelief, but before the great, unparalleled trouble, several verses in the OT mention a dangerously deceptive false peace that would compromise Israel’s vigilance and be broken by the sudden and unexpected invasion of the last aggressor, called by several names in scripture but commonly known as the man of lawlessness or the Antichrist.

Much could be said about this false peace that Isaiah calls Israel’s ill-fated “covenant with death and hell” (Isa 28:15, 18 with Eze 38:8, 11, 14; 39:26; Dan 9:27; 11:23; 1Thes 5:3), but until very recently, any realistic prospect of peace, even the illusion of peace, seemed an elusive, unrealistic dream.

But since the advent of the “Abrahamic Accords”, and now with what appears the neutralization of the Iranian threat, a new unified partnership for peace has emerged that has put the unlikely dream into realistic reach. This is unprecedented!

In 1Thes 5:3, Paul makes this statement that is familiar to the readers of the NT:

“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”

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tomquinlan

January 31, 2026

All Israel Shall Be Saved (Podcast and List of Scriptures) – [AUDIO]

Following our recent meeting, I gathered the below. Feel free to add to these lists. – Maor S.

Our task is to show what Paul had in mind, which is to show what the Prophets had in mind.

“And so all Israel will be saved,as it is written:

“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;” (Rom. 11:26)

Verses about All Israel saved in the day of the Lord after the GT being the remnant that survived the Sword of the Covenant:

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reggiekelly

October 23, 2025

Discerning the Beginning of Daniel’s Seventieth Seven

Without doubt, what seemed so hopelessly remote and improbable only two years ago appears to be moving at an unprecedented pace towards the deceptive Mideast peace that sets the stage for the final sequence of events leading to the Lord’s return. Just what form this will take or how long it will be in its development remains to be seen, but prophecy clearly shows that a disarming illusion of peace is the necessary prelude to the shock that must come to Israel and the world.

The danger that besets these exciting developments is the tendency to make premature announcements that discredit prophecy just when its greatest potential for witness and warning is nearing the appointed time when it will be time to say with assurance and authority, “this is that!” (Acts 2:16). Even now, well meaning prophecy watchers are making premature declarations that the final seven has already started.

Others are more cautious to say only that the conditions necessary for the peace that begins the final seven are falling fast into place. Although a necessary first step, the enforcement of a multi-national peace arrangement is not by itself sufficient to signal the start of the last seven, UNLESS this is accompanied by certain equally foretold conditions and signal events. This is what we want to look at in what follows, as it will be a safeguard against the false alarms and premature announcements that are sure to fill the air.

It might be time well repaid for serious students of the scripture to become at least somewhat familiar and respectful of the kind of difficulties and perplexities that have baffled Daniel scholars of all schools (Prov 18:13<; 2Tim 2:15). It is well to remember that according to Daniel’s prophecy, certain outstanding details will not be unsealed till the end is very near (Dan 12:4, 9). Yet, the scripture is equally clear that these things will be revealed well enough before the end to ‘prepare a people to prepare a people’ (Dan 11:33; 12:3, 10).

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reggiekelly

October 7, 2025

Caution Concerning Important Distinctions that Help Avoid Misleading False Alarms

Now titled “Discerning the Beginning of Daniel’s Seventieth Seven“, this article has been enhanced since first published on Oct 6th. See link above ^ 👆🏻

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reggiekelly

February 18, 2025

Jewish Wrestlings with the Tragedy of Exile

https://www.jewishhistory.org/a-mystical-view-of-exile/ (from jewishhistory.org)

Notice these extracts from the above article:

“What sin of the Jewish people was so great that it required such a long, bloody and painful exile – with seemingly no end? The Jews may have sinned, but if we compare the Jews’ behavior to many other nations and religious groups in history, it is difficult to place them at the bottom of the ladder. We are not found to be that wanting morally or spiritually. The punishment seems disproportionate to the sin.”

“What purpose does this exile accomplish?”

“The exile was transformed from being viewed as a punishment for the sins of the Jewish people into a vehicle for redemption”

In this last sentence and what follows, we see the problem of the exile being collapsed into one aspect of a common Jewish answer to the so called, “problem of evil”:

“only through darkness could light shine.”

This softens the blow of the traditional view of exile as punishment for sin. It doesn’t deny sin, but it makes sin, and evil in general, to be the means by which the nobility of innate human goodness can be applied towards some eschatological ’re-assembling’ of the good, ultimately purged and freed of the power of evil through good deeds.

How much more optimistic of a properly “educated” and incentivized human nature could there be than this?!

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reggiekelly

January 6, 2025

The Approaching Time of Jacob’s Trouble

(Written in February 2008)

It is generally well known that earliest Jewish and Christian eschatology (study of the future) shared in common the view that God’s final defeat of the demonic powers of this age would come only after a brief period of unequaled great tribulation. In Judaism this period is typically called ‘the birth pangs of Messiah’. The tribulation was expected to end with the apocalyptic ‘day of the Lord’, which would realize the end of exile with the deliverance of besieged Israel, and the enthronement of Messiah. The Christian gospel is understood as ‘the revelation of the mystery’ contained in the prophetic writings that Messiah would come twice (Ro 16:25-26; 1Pet 1:10-12), a first time to suffer making atonement, and a second to restore all things (Acts 3:18-21). The redemption would be accomplished in two stages rather than one as in Judaism. In both views, the final redemption comes at a time of unparalleled distress and desolation called ‘the time of Jacob’s trouble’. The common view was that the events that distinguish and define Jacob’s trouble would culminate in the final deliverance of Israel at the climactic ‘day of the Lord’.

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