“To Make the Bible its Own Interpreter”

“To Make the Bible its Own Interpreter”

The debate over eschatology continues, although there are some who argue there is no debate except on some minor points. We’re told the fundamentals have been settled even when there is still so much disagreement about the millennium, five different rapture positions, whether there is something called “the rapture of the church,” Jesus coming for His saints and Jesus coming with His saints, whethe [...]

Answering Cults that Claim to Believe the Bible

Answering Cults that Claim to Believe the Bible

Many religious cults claim to believe the Bible and biblical inerrancy. A recent video discussion that included Sam Frost and Andrew Sandlin raised the question about how Gary would answer cults using only the Bible. When Jesus taught he taught with authority and not as one who needed to depend upon the opinions of others (Matt. 7:29). So also we who teach the Word of Christ should not be compelle [...]

Episode 35: Surprising Facts From the Book of Revelation

Episode 35: Surprising Facts From the Book of Revelation

Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 35 Gary gives an overview of the book of Revelation and helps readers to put the confusing book into perspective. Revelation is the most “Biblical” book in the Bible. St. John quotes hundreds of passages from the Old Testament, often with subtle allusions to little-known religious rituals of the Hebrew people. In order to understand Revelatio [...]

How the Wright Brothers Proved Evolution is Impossible

How the Wright Brothers Proved Evolution is Impossible

As a boy, I was fascinated with inventors and their inventions. Not just in the invention but the process. How did they do it? Why didn’t they give up after so many failures? Edison’s attempt to find the right filament for his incandescent light was exhausting. He reportedly said, “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not w [...]

More Memes of the Week

More Memes of the Week

Gary brings back “Memes of the Week.” Meme creators find interesting ways to communicate complicated topics in (often) humorous ways. Gary highlights a few of his most recent favorites. The facts are not what’s really at stake, although it will sometimes seem like they are. Too often, we are made to believe that if we could just marshal better historical evidence, or better scientific [...]

Frost Advisory in the Debate Over Eschatology

Frost Advisory in the Debate Over Eschatology

Sam Frost used to be a full preterist. He published articles and books defending the full preterist worldview while he was at Whitefield Theological Seminary under the tutelage of Ken Talbot. In his book Misplaced Hope, Frost wrote that he owed Ken “large thanks. Although he may not be in agreement with my conclusions [about Sam’s views about preterism], he nonetheless has inspired my undertaking [...]

The Return of the Three Questions

The Return of the Three Questions

Gary responds to recent criticism that resurrects the “Three Questions Controversy” from 2023 and accuses Gary of promoting “full preterism.” KIM: In general terms, the end-end is that “the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea” (Is. 11:9, Hab. 2:14) or: All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, an [...]

Episode 34: The Great Tribulation-Future or Fulfilled?

Episode 34: The Great Tribulation-Future or Fulfilled?

Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 34 Gary responds to a video that critiques a preterist interpretation of Matthew 24. The critique gives the impression that 1) a preterist interpretation is “new” (it’s not); and 2) that it’s not biblical (it is). Jesus appropriated language from Ezekiel and applied it to the prophesied coming judgment on Jerusalem that would take [...]

Is Lip Service Being Paid to Sola Scriptura?

Is Lip Service Being Paid to Sola Scriptura?

In my opinion, in the battle over eschatology, creeds and confessions are heavily weighted toward dogmatism because eschatology has been a landmine of interpretive confusion. Let’s nail down some non-negotiable “I believes” and let combatants fight about the non-essentials in the never-ending Prophecy Wars. It’s become even more so with the advent of dispensational premillennialism. For many dispe [...]

Actual Gary vs. AI Gary

Actual Gary vs. AI Gary

Gary continues his conversation with Kevin Barber about technology and artificial intelligence where Kevin reveals a tool he made for American Vision, which can be found at www.AmericanVision.ai. AI tools can be useful in summarizing large blocks of information. Over the last 45 years, Gary DeMar has written many books, articles, and reviews, given countless interviews and talks, and taught a bibl [...]

Coming to Judge the Living and the Dead: The Creeds, History, and Biblical Language

Coming to Judge the Living and the Dead: The Creeds, History, and Biblical Language

The Nicene Creed and its anonymous cousin, the Apostles’ Creed, have been standards of orthodoxy for around 1700 years. A charge made against Christians who ask questions about the creeds is that the creeds use “man’s language,” thus invalidating their authority. This is a harsh and mistaken claim since most of the statements in both creeds are taken directly from verses in the Bible, thus, they a [...]

Episode 33: Timing is Everything

Episode 33: Timing is Everything

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 33 Gary riffs on a short clip from an individual trying to explain away the meaning of the word “soon.” Commentator Robert Thomas uses 1 John 2:18 in an attempt to prove that “Scripture has a different standard from ours” when it comes to measuring time. This can only be true if one [...]

Standing on Natural Law is ‘Sinking Sand’

Standing on Natural Law is ‘Sinking Sand’

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant To understand the relationship between Church and State we need to go to the source, and that source is not the United States Constitution. Modern-day social theory is based on an evolutionary model. This means that there is no way to account for morality, governmental jurisdictions, or separation of powers since these principles are foun [...]

The Gospel According to (Cool Hand) Luke

The Gospel According to (Cool Hand) Luke

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary discusses the film, Cool Hand Luke. While it is not a Christian movie in any sense, it uses a lot of Christian symbology to tell its tale. The Bible states, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” (Prov. 1:7). True knowledge does not take place unless one begins with the presupposition that God exists and His Word is sup [...]

A Non-Violent Revolutionary Faith

A Non-Violent Revolutionary Faith

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary discusses revolutionary practices of the Left (like firebombing Teslas) and how nothing has changed in their tactics (the very ones they claim to fear from the Right). A right is a legal immunity, primarily from the State imposing its will on the people. For example, God had a legal right to the Tree of Knowledge, therefore, He could [...]

Episode 32: A Review of The Doctrine of the Last Things

Episode 32: A Review of The Doctrine of the Last Things

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 32 Gary reviews a new book by Dr. Sam Waldron about eschatology called “The Doctrine of Last Things.” Like a number of commentators, John Murray argues that the disciples were confused about the “end of the age” (Matt. 24:3), believing that when the temple was destroyed, it would als [...]

A Long Prophetic Comedy of Errors

A Long Prophetic Comedy of Errors

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Charles Wesley Ewing, writing in 1983, describes a clear historical picture of how prophetic interpretation based on current events turns to confusion, uncertainty, and in some people unbelief when it comes to predicting an end that disappoints: In 1934, Benito Mussolini sent his black-shirted Fascists down into defenseless Ethiopia and p [...]

The Ongoing Battle for Biblical Truth

The Ongoing Battle for Biblical Truth

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary discusses the work of American Vision and runs through some history of theological debates over the last half-century. Biblical heroes like Gideon, Jephthah, Samuel, Barak, and Samson had their moral failings, and yet they are in the biblical “Hall of Faith”: And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon [idola [...]

Can the Brain Be Trusted if There is no Mind?

Can the Brain Be Trusted if There is no Mind?

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant There’s a former Christian who has written book about the best way to kill God. It seems if you don’t agree with him, you are brainwashed. I’ve seen this type of language. “My books are about killing God,” says Philip Pullman, the award-winning author of the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. For a critique of Pullman’s worldview, see To [...]

The Church and the Ekklesia

The Church and the Ekklesia

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary answers a listener question about the word “church” and how it is used by the Bible and interpreters over the years. English translations have obscured the biblical and historical meaning of ekklēsia by translating it as “church” rather than “assembly” or “congregation.” It’s unfortunate that John Wycliffe (c. 1324–1384) [...]