God's Work with Planet Earth

Hi there! My name is Eric and I’m a father of two, husband of one, just entering my fifties. I’ve been a Christian all my life, but for many years I was a “nominal Christian” just going through the motions. When God wakes someone up to spiritual realities, it is an experience!

Behind all the beauty and pain and suffering in this world, there are spiritual forces and causes we can’t see. There’s a conflict between good and evil that we can’t see with our eyeballs. And it’s critical that we understand how real this is, because one side wants to save us forever, and the other side wants to destroy us forever. The evidence is all around us, but we usually don’t recognize it.

The Bible offers us the answers to:

• Where we came from (Who created us)
• Why we’re here (we’re in this condition because of sin, but still alive because of God’s mercy and grace)
• Where God wants to take us in the future

God’s work with our world can be divided into Five Stages. At the beginning of each of these stages, God did or will do something massive that has eternal consequences. Hint: The beginning of Stage Four is very close right now.

So this is what I’m going to focus on, one post at a time: The story of God’s plan for the world we live in – and for us. He didn’t hide this. He inspired and miraculously preserved a collection of 66 books over a period of more than 3,500 years. Down here, nearing the end of this world, we have easy access to God’s letters to humanity.

Yes, I’m starting another blog (among many out there) on what the Bible teaches, which almost no one will read. But if even one person is encouraged and drawn closer to Jesus through this effort, it’s worth it. The 80-100 years we live in this world is so insignificant compared to the glorious ETERNITY that’s coming sooner than we think. But the lives we are living now are our chance to choose to be adopted as sons and daughters of God and citizens of His coming Kingdom, or to reject the Source of all life.

And “when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8