EpisTheology

01/09/2026

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."

«« John 3:16-18 »»

"Eve exercised unbelief in the Word of God and brought the entire human race down into a curse and eternal judgment.

In the days of Noah, he was a preacher of righteousness warning the world. The world would not believe, and the world of unbelievers brought down a flood upon their own heads that drowned all of humanity with the exception of Noah and his three sons and their wives and his own wife.

Unbelief caused the destruction of the whole human race and all creatures and all life living on the earth.

It was unbelief on the part of Israel in the wilderness that caused them to die there before ever entering into the Promised Land.

And the story of Israel’s ongoing unbelief even after they entered the land of Canaan is clear for all to read in the Old Testament.

They were judged again and again by God for their apostasy and their unbelief.

We remember Aaron’s unbelief led to three thousand people being slaughtered.

We remember that Moses’ unbelief kept him out of the Promised Land.

We remember that Achan’s unbelief, resulting in his disobedience, brought about the ex*****on of himself and his entire family.

You might remember Sennacherib’s unbelief, the Gentile king, led to his assassination by his own sons after an angel of the Lord had massacred 185,000 of his troops.

And, of course, then there is the unbelief of Judas, which led to his su***de and his everlasting punishment.

The Pharisees and the Scribes were unbelievers to the very end with few exceptions.

And like all other unbelievers, their unbelief resulted in them dying in their sins, and forfeiting heaven, and gaining hell.

The New Testament has a lot to say about believing. It has a lot to say about faith.

But it has an awful lot to say equally about unbelief."

— John MacArthur
Amazing Unbelief
February 21, 2010

01/09/2026

"And Jesus went out from there and came into His hometown; and His disciples followed Him.

And when the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and many listeners were astonished, saying,

“Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to this man, and such miracles as these performed by His hands? Is this man not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?”

And they were taking offense at Him.

And Jesus was saying to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.”

And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

And He was marveling at their unbelief.
And He was going around the villages teaching."

«« Mark 6:1-6 »»

The Bible doesn’t say that Jesus wondered, or was astonished, or was amazed, except for two times:

Here, and on an occasion when He was amazed at the faith of a centurion – as recorded both by Matthew and Luke.

The Bible tells us the people were constantly amazed at Him. They were astonished at Him.

But only those two times was He amazed at them. Once with the centurion He was amazed at his faith.

Here, He is amazed at the unbelief in His own hometown.

We think about faith as powerful, don’t we?

Faith moves mountains.

But I want you to understand that unbelief is powerful as well.

Unbelief is a great force. The power of unbelief is so great that it extends throughout all eternity. It has massive force.

— John MacArthur
Amazing Unbelief
February 21, 2010

28/08/2026

"And Jesus began to say to them, “See to it that no one deceives you.
Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He!’ and will mislead many.
And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed; those things must take place; but that is not yet the end.

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines.
These things are merely the beginning of birth pains.

“But see to yourselves; for they will deliver you to the courts, and you will be beaten in the synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for My sake, as a witness to them.

And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.

And when they lead you away, delivering you up, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given to you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but it is the Holy Spirit.

And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

And you will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved."

«« Mark 13:5-13 »»

There are people who think the world is going to get better; they have a label, they’re called postmillennialists.

That view says that the world is going to get better and better and better and go right into the millennial kingdom, and Christ will come at the end of the millennial kingdom.

The millennial kingdom will be the product of the efforts of the church and the redeemed in the world, they will produce a better world; they take over the institutions of man and they produce a better world; they produce the kingdom, and they give it to Christ.

Well, I’ll promise you one thing: Jesus was not a postmillennialist.

He certainly did not believe things were going to get better and better and better - this is a long, pessimistic look at history.

He doesn’t say when — in fact, He says, “No one knows, not even the Son of Man, only the Father” — but He does define the nature of human experience while history waits for His return.

While history is waiting for Him to come back, there will be a barrage of false Christs, false messiahs, false teachers, false prophets, wars, disasters, persecution - all through human history and getting worse and worse and worse - and at the end, the explosion of these kinds of things will reach epoch proportions that are described in Revelation 6 through 19, in a seven-year period called a time of tribulation.

Even the latter half of that is a time of great tribulation, the last three and a half years being the worst of all.

These prophecies do not describe 70 A.D. That’s impossible.

And yet there are people called Preterists, who say that everything that our Lord predicted here came to pass in 70 A.D., or by 70 A.D.

That is an impossible interpretation, to be sure, and there’s no need for that.

You can take Scripture at face value and, by the way, this fits into an essential understanding of the deity of our Lord.

It validates His deity by being absolutely accurate.

— John MacArthur
The Grim Reality Of The Last Days
March 20, 2011

28/08/2026

22/08/2026

Deconstruction becomes destruction. That's why it's so heartbreaking.

There's a proliferation, in our time, of false Christianity, of Christian Deconstruction, people who abandon the faith.

It's a very big movement today in our world.

The reason there are so many is because there are so many false Christians.

You can actually express your heroism in a blog or a podcast.

You can go to a conference of ex-Christians, ex-vangelicals.

You can be a speaker at one of those.

You can become a shining, heroic, "victim" of what the culture would deem as "false religion."

Never has there been this much support for defectors.

John describes them, these deconstructionists, as anti-Christs.

This is not a trifling issue, this deconstruction.

It's terrifying.

It's a little wonder that the prophets wept.

It's a little wonder that our Lord Himself wept.

— John MacArthur
Christian Deconstruction, Part 1
May 28, 2023

10/08/2026

"Beware of doing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

“Therefore, when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.

But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you."

«« Matthew 6:1-4 »»

09/08/2026

"Now as soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God, rejoicing with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, saying,

“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord.
Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”

But Jesus answered and said, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones will cry out!”

«« Luke 19:37-40 »»

06/08/2026

There is no such thing as Christian Nationalism.

The Kingdom of God is not of this world.

Jesus said that.

Now, that is not to say that we are indifferent to what happens in the nation. We have to be the people who uphold righteousness.

When we come to vote, we want to vote for that which is the most righteous option.

Christian Nationalism is usually tied to what is called Postmillennialism.

That is the view that the church somehow, by influencing the culture, can bring in the Kingdom of Christ.

That is NOT what Scripture teaches.

What Scripture teaches is what we're learning from the Book of Revelation.

Things are going to get worse and worse, and at the end of human history, the believers are persecuted and murdered and that's the very opposite of what Christian Nationalism would anticipate.

So, we believe the Bible teaches that things get worse and worse, headed toward the wrath of God which what we're seeing in Revelation and then our Lord returns Himself to establish His Kingdom.

It's clearly what we read in the Book of Revelation.

— John MacArthur