Exposing The Noahide Laws and Defending The Faith
Churchianity’s Biblical Illiteracy – Men Are Deceiving The Flock For Profit!
I was watching a recent video by Jack Hibbs featuring his supposed “prophecy experts” guests ( click to watch) and it looked like a club of entertainment for the masses and not a serious study of God’s Word.
They were joking around about the “rapture” and entertaining the crowd like a game show host running a panel.
I am deeply saddened that this sensational spectacle is what so much of modern American Christianity has become.
During the session, audience questions were flashed on screen for the “experts” to answer. As I listened, I realized they were handing out theological lies and unbiblical traditions that bear little resemblance to historic biblical Christianity.
This, my friends, is the sad condition of modern “churchianity.”
This sensationalism is what sells, packs arenas and keeps congregations in a perpetual cycle of panic and escapism, but none of the core prophetic conclusions they offered align with the historical truth of Scripture.
I decided to write down for you every single question presented to the panel, summarized with the answers they gave, followed by the scriptural truth that thoroughly debunks their claims. ( the questions given to experts in Jack Hibbs Church will be in the blue)
Question 1: Is there one major event in Bible prophecy that we should be looking for that triggers the end of the world? If so, when will it happen?
The”Experts” Said: The next event on God’s prophetic calendar is the secret, sudden rapture of the church. This event can happen at any millisecond without warning, kick starts a seven year tribulation period, and opens the door for the Antichrist to sign a treaty with Israel.
The Truth:
There is no secret two stage return of Jesus!
Scripture knows only one visible return of Jesus Christ (Parousia), accompanied by the general resurrection and final judgment. The doctrine of an invisible, secret “snatching away” followed seven years later by a separate second return was absent from early church history and it was invented in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and later popularized by the Scofield Reference Bible.
It is a man made doctrine!
When Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 that believers will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, he uses the Greek word apantesis. In the Greco-Roman world, this word was used in descriptions of people going out to welcome an arriving visitor (dignitary or king for example) and accompanying him back to his destination.
We see this same word used in Acts 28:15, where believers go out to meet Paul as he approaches Rome. They do not take Paul away from Rome. They welcome him on his arrival.
This historical background gives us good reason to understand Paul’s words as a picture of believers welcoming their returning King, rather than Christ secretly removing His church from the earth for a seven year absence. Paul says believers will meet the Lord and remain with Him. He never says that Christ will reverse direction and carry them back to heaven while the earth is abandoned.
Also, when the disciples asked Jesus about the “end of the age” in Matthew 24:3, the Greek word was aion, meaning an age, not kosmos, meaning the world. [KJV says “world”]
Their question followed Jesus’ announcement that the temple would be destroyed. In this context, the “end of the age” can be understood as the approaching judgment upon Jerusalem and the conclusion of the Old Covenant temple order.
Question 2: Matthew 24 sounds a lot like what happened in 70 AD. Is that what Jesus is referring to, or are these events described still in the future?
The “experts” agreed that the Romans destroyed the temple in AD 70, but they claimed that the other events Jesus described in Matthew 24 never happened at that time. These included the abomination of desolation, the Antichrist, worldwide wars, and believers fleeing into the wilderness. They claimed Jesus was speaking about two different events: the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 and a future seven-year tribulation before the end of the world.
The Truth:
We need to begin with what Jesus was actually talking about. In Matthew 24:1–2, His disciples were admiring the magnificent temple in Jerusalem, with its enormous stones and impressive buildings. Jesus then made a shocking prediction:
“Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
This is what started the entire conversation. Jesus had just told His disciples that the temple would be destroyed. They wanted to know when it would happen and what signs would warn them that the time was approaching. Why would we ignore the very event that prompted their questions and assume Jesus suddenly began describing events thousands of years into the future?
History tells us what happened next.
The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus recorded the terrible war between Rome and Judea from AD 66 to 70. Roman armies surrounded Jerusalem, the city suffered horrific destruction, and the temple was burned and demolished, just as Jesus had warned.
Jesus had also told His followers:
“Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.” (Matthew 24:16)
Early Christian historians, including Eusebius, report that Christians in Jerusalem fled to Pella, across the Jordan River, before the city’s destruction. This account is preserved in Christian history. What Jesus warned about was not some mysterious event thousands of years away. His warning concerned a real danger facing people living in Judea.
And what about Jesus saying the gospel must first be preached throughout the whole world?
In Matthew 24:14, Jesus used the Greek word oikoumene, which could refer to the known inhabited world, particularly the world known under Roman rule. It did not necessarily mean every country on the modern globe.
Paul wrote that the gospel was already spreading throughout the world in his own lifetime (Colossians 1:6). He went further in Colossians 1:23, describing the gospel as having been preached to all creation under heaven. Romans 10:18 uses similar language!
So why insist that Jesus was describing our modern world when the New Testament itself uses this kind of language for events taking place in the first century?
The disciples asked Jesus about the temple standing right in front of them. Jesus warned them about the judgment that was coming. And within that generation, Jerusalem fell and the temple was destroyed.
We do not need to move Jesus’ warnings thousands of years into the future to make sense of them. We need to read His words in their original setting and recognize how much of what He warned about was fulfilled in the very generation He was addressing.
Question 3: Does Matthew 24:15 mean that there will be another temple when these things take place?
The “Experts” Said: Absolutely, 100%. A third physical temple must be built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem because the Antichrist must stand inside it and proclaim himself God. They pointed to the modern Temple Institute, priest garments, and red heifers as evidence.
The Truth:
No. Jesus was speaking about the temple that was already standing in Jerusalem, not another temple that would be built thousands of years later. In Matthew 24:1–2, Jesus told His disciples that the magnificent temple they were looking at would be destroyed. When He later warned them about the abomination of desolation in Matthew 24:15, He was continuing that same conversation. There is no reason to suddenly introduce a future third temple into His words.
In fact, Luke’s account helps us understand what Jesus meant. In Luke 21:20, Jesus said:
“And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.”
Jesus was warning His followers about the coming destruction of Jerusalem. This happened in AD 70 when Roman armies destroyed the city and its temple. The Romans carried pagan military standards, and the historian Josephus recorded that Roman soldiers brought these standards into the temple area and offered sacrifices to them. This fits the first century understanding of the abomination of desolation. Jesus was warning His own generation about a real event that was approaching, not telling Christians to wait thousands of years for another temple to be built.
But there is something even more important that Christians need to understand. Why would God need another temple when Jesus Christ has already fulfilled everything the temple represented?
Jesus called His own body the temple in John 2:19–21. The apostles taught that God does not dwell in temples made by human hands (Acts 7:48; 17:24). They also taught that believers themselves are now God’s living temple, with Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone (1 Corinthians 3:16; Ephesians 2:20–22).
The entire book of Hebrews explains that the Old Covenant priesthood and sacrificial system have been made obsolete through Christ. Jesus offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for sin, once for all (Hebrews 8:13; 10:12–14). There is no need for another altar, some Jewish priesthood, or another animal sacrifice. Christ has already accomplished what the old temple system could never accomplish.
Yet “prophecy experts” continue telling Christians that a third temple must be built in Jerusalem before Jesus can return. Some christians even help and finance preparations to restore animal sacrifices. But why should Christians look forward to restoring a sacrificial system that Christ’s death has already fulfilled?
Matthew 24:15 does not say that another temple must be built. Jesus was warning about the destruction of the temple that existed in His own day. That temple was destroyed in AD 70, exactly as He had foretold.
The Christian hope is not the rebuilding of a temple in Jerusalem. Our hope is Jesus Christ, whose finished work made the old sacrificial system unnecessary forever.
And this brings us to the red heifers, the Temple Institute, and all the excitement surrounding the possibility of rebuilding a third temple in Jerusalem.
The Temple Institute is preparing to restore the ancient Jewish temple system, complete with priests, sacred vessels, purification rituals, and animal sacrifices. The red heifers are part of these preparations because their ashes were used for purification under the Law of Moses.
But here is what Christians need to understand:
These are Judaic religious expectations, not Christian prophecies that we have been commanded to help fulfill. The people preparing for this temple do not accept Jesus as the Messiah. They do not believe His death fulfilled the sacrificial system. They are waiting for a Messiah whom Christians believe has already come.
And somehow, millions of Christians have been convinced that they should be cheering this on!
Think about the absurdity of this!
Jesus came, suffered, shed His blood, and gave His life as the final sacrifice for sin. He declared, “It is finished.” The book of Hebrews tells us that His sacrifice was sufficient once and for all. Yet here we have Christians getting excited about red cows, temple furniture, and preparations to start slaughtering animals again!
Can you imagine anything more insulting to the finished work of Jesus Christ?
What exactly are we telling Him? Thank You, Lord, for suffering on the cross, but apparently we still need a few more sacrifices in Jerusalem before Your work is complete?
The temple was destroyed in AD 70, just as Jesus warned. The Old Covenant sacrificial system came to an end. Yet today, people are trying to reconstruct that system, while Christian prophecy teachers insist that these preparations are somehow necessary for Jesus to return.
Since when does God need human beings to manufacture the fulfillment of prophecy?
Since when do we have to purchase red heifers, prepare an altar, and rebuild a stone building to make Jesus come back?
And what makes this especially disturbing is that Christians are not simply watching these developments. Some are actively supporting them, donating money, and treating every new preparation as another exciting sign that the end is near.
Have we really reached the point where Christians are more excited about a red heifer than they are about the Lamb of God?
Hebrews 10:18 could hardly be clearer:
“Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.”
No more offering for sin. What part of that is so difficult to understand?
Hebrews 6:6 even speaks of the terrible seriousness of crucifying the Son of God afresh and putting Him to open shame.
That verse specifically warns about apostasy, but surely it should make us think about what it means to turn our attention back toward a sacrificial system that Christ has already fulfilled.
I cannot help wondering how offensive this enthusiasm for renewed sacrifices must be to the very Christ these Christians claim to worship. We speak of loving Jesus and trusting His finished work, yet some Christians are practically applauding preparations to restore the system that pointed forward to Him in the first place.
And for what? Because “prophecy experts” have persuaded them that Jesus cannot return until a group of people who reject Him as Messiah build another temple?
Jesus does not need another temple or some Jewish priesthood that doesn’t even believe in Him to offer something. And He certainly does not need a red heifer to complete what He accomplished on Calvary.
Rather than helping people prepare for sacrifices that Christianity teaches are no longer necessary, Christians should be preaching the Gospel to these lost Jews. They should be explaining why Jesus is the promised Messiah, why the temple sacrifices pointed to Him, and why His death accomplished what the blood of bulls and goats never could.
Instead, we have Christians helping prepare for the restoration of temple worship while calling it biblical prophecy.
What a strange way to honor the Savior who gave His life to fulfill it all.
Perhaps instead of asking when the third temple will be built, Christians should be asking themselves why they are so eager to restore what Jesus came to fulfill.
Question 4: What generation is referred to in Matthew 24:34?
The “Experts” Said: Jesus meant whatever future generation witnesses the beginning of the tribulation birth pains, claiming the phrase points to an unspecified future group of people.
The Truth:
Jesus could hardly have made Himself clearer. He said:
“Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” (Matthew 24:34)
Notice what Jesus said. THIS generation. Not some future generation. Not a generation living two thousand years later. The generation alive when He spoke those words.
The Greek phrase Jesus used is “he genea haute”, meaning “this generation.”
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus repeatedly uses this expression when speaking about the people living in His own time. We see it in Matthew 11:16, Matthew 12:41–42, and Matthew 23:36. There is no reason to suddenly give the same expression an entirely different meaning in Matthew 24 simply because it does not fit someone’s end times teaching.
And the context makes this even clearer. Just one chapter earlier, Jesus confronted the religious leaders and warned them of the judgment coming upon them. He said:
“Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.” (Matthew 23:36)
Who was He talking to? The scribes and Pharisees standing right in front of Him! He was warning them about judgment coming upon their own generation.
Then, in Matthew 24, Jesus continued speaking about the coming destruction of Jerusalem and its temple. And once again, He said that this generation would not pass away until all these things had taken place.
Yet the “prophecy experts” want us to believe that somewhere between Matthew 23 and Matthew 24, Jesus suddenly changed the meaning of “this generation” to people who would not even be born for another two thousand years.
Why? What in the text requires such a change?
Nothing. The change is necessary for their manufactured prophetic system, not for understanding Jesus’ ordinary words.
In the Bible, forty years is used to describe a generation, as we see with the Israelites in the wilderness. Jesus spoke these words around AD 30–33. Jerusalem and its temple were destroyed in AD 70, approximately forty years later.
The timing fits very well!
Jesus warned His own generation that judgment was coming. He told His disciples what signs to watch for. He instructed those in Judea to flee when they saw the danger approaching. And within the lifetime of that generation, Roman armies destroyed Jerusalem and its temple.
So why are these false pastors searching for another generation to fulfill what Jesus said would happen to His own?
The real problem is not that Jesus was unclear. The problem is that His words do not fit the dispensationalist timetable. Instead of allowing Scripture to correct their theology, these false teachers reinterpret the plain meaning of “this generation” to protect a prophecy system built around a “future tribulation.”
Jesus said “this generation,” and that is exactly what He meant.
It seems these prophecy teachers are more interested in pomp and circumstance than in the plain words of Jesus. They have created an elaborate end times spectacle filled with rebuilt temples, red heifers, dramatic predictions, and future tribulations. It gives them fame and lots of money because people pay for such entertainment!
But all this excitement comes at the expense of something far more serious :
THE TRUTH of what Jesus actually told His disciples.
Instead of allowing Scripture to speak for itself, they turn a clear warning to His own generation into a grand prophetic production thousands of years in the future. Apparently, the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 is not dramatic enough for them.
Question 5: When one is taken and one is left, it sounds like the rapture, but doesn’t this take place in judgment?
The “Experts” Said: They conceded it is not the rapture, but claimed it describes surviving Gentiles being rounded up for divine judgment at the end of the tribulation right before an earthly millennium begins.
The Truth:
Once again, we need to let Jesus explain His own words instead of allowing “prophecy experts” to give them an entirely different meaning.
In Matthew 24:37–39, Jesus compared the coming judgment to the days of Noah. He said:
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
Now pay attention to what Jesus actually said. Who was taken away in Noah’s day? Was it Noah and his family, or was it the wicked who perished in the flood?
The answer is that Noah and his family were preserved, while those who ignored God’s warning were swept away in judgment.
Immediately after giving this example, Jesus continued:
“Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” (Matthew 24:40)
Why would Jesus suddenly reverse the meaning of His own illustration? He had just described people being taken away by judgment. The natural reading is that He was continuing the same warning. One would be taken, and the other would be left.
This is where the popular rapture interpretation runs into trouble. For years, Christians have been taught that being taken is something wonderful, while being left behind is something terrible. But in the example Jesus Himself chose, those taken away were the ones who perished!
This understanding also fits Proverbs 2:21–22, which says:
“For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.”
Scripture speaks of the righteous being preserved and the wicked facing judgment. So why should we automatically assume that being taken away in Matthew 24 means being rescued to heaven?
And remember the historical setting.
Jesus was warning about the judgment coming upon Jerusalem. When the Romans destroyed the city in AD 70, enormous numbers of people were killed or taken captive. Josephus recorded the terrible suffering of those caught in the siege. Early Christian history also preserves the account of believers fleeing Jerusalem to Pella before its destruction.
Those who escaped were spared the catastrophe that overtook the city. This fits the warning Jesus had already given His disciples to flee when they saw Jerusalem’s destruction approaching.
The context certainly matters, friends.
Jesus had just used Noah’s flood to illustrate judgment, and that gives us a strong reason to understand the people being taken as those facing judgment rather than believers disappearing in a secret rapture.
The “prophecy experts” themselves admit that this passage is not describing the rapture. Yet they still insist that it concerns some future judgment of Gentiles after a seven year tribulation, just before a thousand year earthly kingdom begins.
But where does Jesus say any of that in these verses?
He says nothing here about Gentiles being rounded up, a seven year tribulation, or the beginning of an earthly millennium.
Those details are entirely fabricated – being brought into the passage from a particular end times dispensational fantasy.
Jesus was warning his generation that judgment was coming on existing sacrificial Judaic system and that the believers needed to be ready.
The comparison with Noah is simple. Some ignored the warning and faced destruction. Others were preserved. That is the point Jesus wanted His listeners to understand.
And once again, we should ask ourselves why we need to invent an elaborate future scenario when Jesus had already told His disciples that these things would happen within their generation.
And this brings us to the end of Part One today my dear friends. If I remember correctly, there were about 28 questions presented to these so called “prophecy experts,” so we still have quite a few to go through.
I must say, this may have been one of the best nights of Jack Hibbs’ clown show.
Who needs a comedy club when you can watch grown men ( yes reserved just for men -that pulpit) stand around confidently explaining how Jesus was apparently talking about everything except what He actually said?
I have to agree, the entertainment value was certainly there!
But beneath all the laughter, there is something deeply troubling about this.
Do these men actually believe all of this with their whole hearts? Do they go home, open Matthew 24, read it carefully from beginning to end, and prayerfully ask the Holy Spirit to help them understand what Jesus was saying? Do they ever question what they have been taught? Do they ever consider that perhaps their entire prophetic system is built upon assumptions that Jesus never made?
I have my doubts.
Because how many times can Jesus say “this generation,” speak directly to His disciples, warn them about the destruction of the temple standing right in front of them, and tell them to flee Judea, before we finally allow His words to mean what they say?
Instead, flocks are treated to red heifers, rebuilt temples, disappearing Christians, future Antichrists, and elaborate prophecy charts. Everything must happen thousands of years later because apparently the actual destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 just wasn’t exciting enough.
And that is what concerns me most. This is not harmless entertainment. These teachings shape how millions of Christians understand Scripture, the Gospel, the nation of Israel, and even their responsibilities as followers of Jesus Christ.
We should be studying the Bible to discover what God has said, not searching for ways to make His Word fit some man made prophetic system.
Well, that is enough of the prophecy circus for today!
I will be back soon with Part Two, where we will continue through the remaining questions presented to these “experts” and examine their answers against Scripture, history, and the actual words of Jesus.
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