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What First Sparked Irvin Baxter Sr.'s Interest in Biblical Prophecy?

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  A lasting interest in a subject can often start with one small moment of doubt, a single detail that doesn't quite sit right. For Irvin Baxter Sr . , that moment arrived in 1965, when he heard a visiting evangelist explain the four beasts in Revelation in a way that didn't line up with what he understood Scripture to say. Rather than dismissing the feeling or simply accepting the explanation because of who delivered it, he made a quieter decision: to check the claim against the text himself before forming any real opinion on it.  What First Made Irvin Baxter Sr. Question a Teaching? The 1965 sermon covered Revelation's four beasts, and something about the interpretation left Baxter genuinely unconvinced. He didn't challenge the point publicly or argue with the evangelist at the time. Instead, the teaching stayed with him afterward as an open question, something that felt like it needed checking rather than simply accepted because of the setting it was delivered in.  W...

What Does the End of the Age Mean for the Kingdom of God?

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The phrase " End of the Age " tends to bring one image to mind first: destruction, disaster, some final catastrophe closing everything out. That reaction makes sense, but it skips over a better question. If one age comes to an end, what actually comes next? That question opens up a different side of biblical prophecy, one focused less on the final moments and more on what Scripture says happens once the present age closes. Scripture ties the closing of the age directly to the Kingdom of God. The end of the age isn't presented as one isolated event with nothing following it. The present order doesn't simply vanish. Biblical teaching points toward a different kind of rule taking its place, which gives the subject a wider meaning than an ending on its own. It also gives readers a real reason to think about what comes after, and why that future actually matters. What Does the End of the Age Really Mark? Human governments have shaped life throughout history. Kingdoms have...