End Times: What the Bible Actually Says

Something Has Been in the Works

If you've stumbled onto this Bible Blog page before today, you probably noticed there wasn't much here. Maybe a post or two. Maybe just the landing page, sitting quietly while the rest of the site talked about fox characters and sizing systems and anthropomorphic lion families.

I want to thank you for coming anyway. Honestly. The fact that people have been finding their way to this corner of the site — and staying, reading, clicking around — has meant more to me than you know. The Bible has always been the foundation of everything I write about, and the fact that readers have been curious about that foundation has only deepened my desire to finally share what's been sitting in my files for a very long time.

Because something has been in the works. For over a decade, actually.

Introducing He Was, Is Not, and Will Come Again

I began this study in 2013, when a YouTube lecture by Walid Shoebat stopped me in my tracks. For the first time, the prophetic texts of Scripture made complete sense — not because someone had imposed a clever system onto them, but because someone was reading what they actually said, through the eyes of the culture that wrote them. I reached out. A comment became a conversation, a conversation became a mentorship, and what began as learning became, over the next twelve years, a study I have returned to, revised, and deepened sixty-four times.

That study is He Was, Is Not, and Will Come Again.

It is a seven-part examination of what the Bible actually teaches about the Last Days — building on the foundational scholarship of Walid Shoebat and Joel Richardson, whose work (God's War on Terror, The Islamic Antichrist, The Mideast Beast, The Assyrian) established the exegetical framework this study is built upon. Walid has read it and given it his personal blessing. Any errors are mine. Everything I got right, I learned from him.

The thesis, stated plainly: the dominant Western framework for End Times prophecy — the one most of us absorbed from books, YouTube channels, and Sunday school lessons — is not merely incomplete. In key ways, it is wrong. And it is wrong in ways that matter, because a church that misidentifies the Antichrist will fail to recognize him when he arrives.

Across seven parts, the study traces the prophetic thread of Scripture from Genesis all the way through Revelation — because you cannot understand the end of a story if you skip straight to the final chapter. It addresses the popular ideas most of us grew up with: the one-world government under Antichrist, the pre-Tribulation Rapture, the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem, the Mark of the Beast as a microchip, and the Antichrist as a slick European politician. Each one is examined seriously, scripturally, and found wanting. In their place, the study presents what the Bible actually says when read in its proper context — as a Middle Eastern book, written for Middle Eastern readers, whose prophetic texts point not westward but eastward.

The picture that emerges is both more unsettling and more hopeful than the popular version. The Antichrist is not a smooth-talking bureaucrat from Brussels. The great powers of the world are not his allies — they are his enemies. The Last Days are not the story of Christendom's defeat. They are its trial, and ultimately, its vindication. And at the end of it all, Christ returns not to a world that has forgotten Him, but to one that has, through fire and tribulation, finally turned its face toward Him.

That is what this study argues. The full case — the scripture, the history, the Church Fathers, and the private prophecies of the saints — is all laid out inside.

How to Get It

He Was, Is Not, and Will Come Again will be available through Amazon as a Kindle download and, eventually, in paperback. I will share the link here on this page as soon as it is live.

I will share updates on this page as release approaches. If you have been waiting — thank you for waiting. If you are finding this for the first time — welcome. The Bible Blog is finally, truly open.

Whatever your denomination, whatever your tradition, whoever you are in your walk with Christ: you are the person this study was written for. Not as a lecture, but as a conversation between one believer and another — over a decade of returning to these pages and finding something new.

I hope it strengthens your faith. It has done that for me, every single time.

— Eric