Bøger af Arthur Perkins

A courageous Christian couple have a well-deserved taste of heaven... But only a brief sampling before they must return to earth to embark on another mission of importance to God and their own futures as members of the Church in her role as Bride of Christ.As Earl and Joyce pursue their mission in America, Israel and her implacable enemies clash in the first skirmishes of the great war of Israel's annihilation.In this fourth novel of the Buddy series, Earl and Joyce Cook pick up their battered bodies from the street in Texas where they had been brutally assaulted and left for dead, and head out on a new mission to free a fellow Christian. They are joined by a courageous Israeli spy to form a team dedicated to bringing the Word of God to Americans who have resisted the acceptance of the dreaded mark of the beast described in Revelation 13 and 14.As the Americans encounter numerous hazardous obstacles to their pursuit of their objective, Jacob and his new wife Moira witness the beginning of open warfare between Israel and her hatred-laden neighbors as foretold in Psalm 83. After a brief interlude initiated by God, the follow-on battle of Ezekiel 38 and 39 ensues, forcing Jacob and Moira into dangerous confrontations with the enemy. The Chinese join the final battle over Jerusalem as the conflagration expands to involve the entire world. When all seems lost, God introduces a wild card into the melee - a large tribe of fighters, known the world over as brave and fierce warriors but never before associated with Israel.The adventures and romantic involvements of the key characters merge into the events foretold long ago by Jesus and the ancient prophets Daniel, Ezekiel and Zechariah as the world, driven by power-drunk madmen under the control of their evil master Satan, culminates in the final Battle of Armageddon. As in the previous three novels of the Buddy Series, the adventures color insights into the nature of God that are suitable for an in-depth Bible Study of concepts and associations rarely, if ever, presented to the lay public.

IT'S CLOSING TIME . . . The Tribulation is here - NOW. God is coming back for His Church... But before He does, Earl and Joyce have a special mission to complete. The Church Age is about to end, bringing the world to the fearfully-anticipated Seventieth Week of Daniel, the final seven-year period spoken of by the prophet Daniel in Chapter Nine of his book in the Bible. Daniel's Seventieth Week dovetails with Jesus' description of the Time of the End in Matthew 24 and His yet more detailed description of the Great Tribulation and its awesome terrors in His Revelation to John. Earl and Joyce have found and treasured their second chance for love as told in the prequel Buddy. Now they find themselves in the midst of the transition from the Church Age to the restoration of Israel as the apple of God's eye, put on hold at the Pentecost following Jesus' resurrection. Israel might find itself in God's favor, but first she has to survive, because it's also the time of Jacob's Trouble as spoken of in the thirtieth chapter of the prophet Jeremiah. But God through Jeremiah also promised to save Israel out of her woes and, like the words of the prophet Zechariah who said that salvation would come to all of Israel, told her that He would be their God forever. God can do this by Himself, but that's not the way He works. Instead He is choosing a few very special and courageous people out of His Church to endure the worst of the Tribulation while they help with the restoration of Israel. Earl and Joyce are among these key people, and their mission will bring danger and pain to their doorstep as an increasingly dictatorial and self-serving society attempts to thwart God's plans.

LOVE- The fundamental driving force behind all human relationships. The inexpressible joy of love fulfilled, and the profound agony of love frustrated. The empty desolation of indifference. The glory of God. To know God intimately is to know the love that is shared within the Godhead, binding Father, Holy Spirit and Son together as a Divine Family, forever inseparable and eternally loving. The love within the Godhead is so brilliant that it radiates outward in the Light of Christ, embracing Creation and infusing us with its benign rays. Woefully, the Church herself has suppressed the full brilliance of this Light in the name of a false purity. She has for centuries covered the lamp of God's love, denying the Church the ability to openly obey God's greatest commandment, that of loving God intimately and intuitively with all our hearts, souls and minds. Something drastic happened to the early Church that involved the tampering of its basic precepts and even the interpretation of Scripture. Lurking in the background almost from the beginning of the Church, it gained influence around the time that Constantine changed the status of the Church from a persecuted and repressed movement to a state religion. This Christian nonfiction work addresses the root of this enormous error and its historic and ongoing debilitating effect on the Church. An alternative vision of God is presented to the reader, and its basic truth is examined in the light of Scripture, which the author embraces as inspired and inerrant in the original.

TIME'S UP...The great war of Israel's annihilation looms near as God prepares his special people. There's just enough time left for Jacob to experience the salvation of Israel and come to a loving relationship of his own with God and an extraordinary woman.In the midst of the human suffering that accompanies the descent of world government into a monolithic, repressive and all-seeing despotic tyranny representing the reign of the long-anticipated antichrist, Earl and Joyce Cook and several Jewish fugitives are on the run from a death camp where God has intervened through a devastating earthquake to free them.With their leader Jacob Perlman at the helm, they have commandeered a military truck and are heading cross-country into an unforgettable adventure that will see Earl and Joyce parting company from Jacob to pursue their own unique mission within the boundaries of the old United States, now part of the North American Region. Jacob, meanwhile, along with the other newly-minted Messianic Jews, has been given a critical mission of their own. Somehow, they must find a way to reach the besieged Jewish homeland of Israel to share the knowledge that the Holy Spirit has imparted to them.Their adventures merge into the events foretold long ago by Jesus and the ancient prophets Daniel, Ezekiel and Zechariah as the world, driven by power-drunk madmen under the control of their evil master Satan, heads unavoidably into the final Battle of Armageddon. As in the previous two novels of the Buddy Series, the adventures color insights into the nature of God that are suitable for an in-depth Bible Study of concepts and associations rarely, if ever, presented to the lay public.

This first novel in the "Buddy" series from Art Perkins is a love story - but one told in a deeper way than the typical romantic adventure, because it is a story not just between people, but with the romance God shares between Himself and mankind. "Buddy" follows Earl and his pain at the tragic loss of his wife. Through dealing with his own grief and the pressures of his job, he dives into distraction with his hang gliding activity. Through an unexpected encounter with God, he volunteers his time at a local nursing home and befriends a young man afflicted with cerebral palsy. Joyce, whose husband had been killed by a drunk driver, meets Earl at work. Sharing much in common with each other, they find themselves forming deep connections with each other. At the same time, connections also are developing with God and with Buddy, bringing Earl and Joyce through a series of adventures into a unique understanding of God. "Buddy" is a story of these connections and how God works through the Holy Spirit to bring people, broken in their own ways, to Him in love.

What is the true nature of the Holy Trinity?Who is the God of the Old Testament?Is there a sharp split between the messages of the Old and New Testaments, or is the message the same?Did Jesus lose at the cross?Are there many paths to Heaven?Who is really marginalizing Chrisitanity?Why does God permit suffering?What do famous Biblical personages have in common with the Marine rifleman?Why is modern scientific speculation quietly backtracking into conformity with the Bible?Does the Bible contain information beyond our expectations?For centuries Church dogma, with its baggage of politics and man-centered tradition, has colored our approach to the interpretation of the Bible. This book takes a fresh look at what Scripture has to say about the nature of God and of how we are to interact with Him.Scripture itself hints of an understanding by its authors of the Trinity that went beyond our present knowledge. The early Church Fathers appear to have possessed that perspective as well, an understanding that may have been lost along with their initial love of God as Christianity became accepted politically and civilization descended into the dark ages. Along with that descent Christianity hardened into rigid, politically expedient dogma which subordinated the love of God to a harsher, more controlling message. The deep schism among Christians over the status of the Blessed Mary indicates how influential this misunderstanding may be. The Catholic veneration of May, frowned upon by Protestants, may be reaching for a higher truth that could be extremely significant to all Christians, Protestant and Catholic alike.Discussions covered here include the nature of the Trinity, the usefulness of evil, the nature of truth, the enormous catastrophe of Noah's Flood, and a presentation of the intricate details associated with Jesus' feeding of the multitudes.