Posts by Tom Buttram

Understanding THE ARK OF THE COVENANT The interesting thing about the covenants God gives us is that as Creator and giver of life, He knows what works best for us. For example: He gave us the covenant of marriage because He knows that it works better than divorce or simply living together. He didn’t ask…

GOG AND MAGOG Not knowing who Gog and Magog might be, leaves us susceptible to false doctrine which can lead to weakened evangelistic efforts and even personal vulnerability. Once you understand who they are, you will see the importance of what I say. Again, we use the tool of type and anti-type to bring clarity…

Are You Going to Heaven? Ever since we could understand the most basic communication, we knew about going to Heaven: “That’s where grandpa is now honey, he’s in Heaven with the angels.” So much of what we believe is folklore or fantasy and that comes directly from Catholicism. We’ve heard about St. Peter standing at…

I changed the title of this article from Straight Talk to Deep Water because the study of the end times is deep indeed and I know why: It’s God’s Nature. Proverbs 25:2, It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.Thus, we have…

THE TWO WITNESSES I’ve been in church for over 75 years and I have never yet heard a teaching or preaching message about The Two Witnesses. I never knew why but I believe that it is because it is they who bring down judgments and curses against the Antichrist and those marked with his image.…

The Second Resurrection –Resurrection unto death In our last meeting we learned that the First Resurrection is a process not an event, however, the Second Resurrection is an event taking only a moment. To avoid confusion, The First R. is for the process of Salvation, giving choice to all to call on or reject the…

This series is for the purpose of calling each to a superior method of discovering God’s Truth and that is from knowing that the Holy Spirit is the source of all truth. As pastors, teachers, or lay-witnesses, we want to teach as we have learned or have been taught and that is with good intention,…

The First Resurrection I am amazed how many odd answers I get when inquiring of Christians,( even pastors) of the meaning of The First Resurrection. Usually, it’s a deer-in-the-headlights stare coming from the shear knowledge that they just don’t know. We see the precedent event of payment for sin in the ancient Israeli harvest season;…

Mile Markers: The Last Moment of this Age I don’t know which item of prophecy is most important to fix in time, but as we assert one we soon see how it fits another. Last issue (#4) we saw much order of understanding to the raising of the wheat and the tare and how each…

Mile Markers For the first sixty-five years of my life I was in a fuddle about the Lord’s Coming. Those in my youth group would discuss, even argue whether the Lord would come pre, mid, or post-tribulation and I see the confusion continues today as one local SB pastor’s doctoral thesis is built on the…