In this newest video from The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction, he discusses the Tartaria craze and its new slant on the “little season” in light of the Gospel. This is well researched, prayerfully thought-through and edifying. I encourage you to listen to this in its entirety without distractions. Just beautiful.
“What is going on right now with the economies and cultures and languages in the media and the military industrial complex and, ya, the technology now where we’re going “What exactly is this technology that was unleashed in 2020?” These are significant, important questions. And this is the tension that I always felt, where people just wanted to check-out in the church or get totally obsessed with the prophetic just being one of reading the newspaper headlines and and thinking that Russia and China are Gog and Magog and Israel is political Israel… like all that is just as confused as if you say that it’s all fake and it’s all Tartaria… that we’re all living in the ruins of Tartaria. I don’t know what is more harmful at this point…
[B]ut the beauty is that the scripture has been preserved throughout, whether it’s been 2000 years or less than that, or more than that, or whatever has all been manipulated, if you can’t rely on the word of God and the testimony of those who saw him be crucified and rise from the dead, who saw his miracles, who heard His preaching and His teaching, if you can’t really rely on the promises that are given in the word of God from Genesis to Revelation then you have no foundation, ultimately nothing to put your trust in other than the speculations of men, and the philosophies of men.
I would argue that there’s nothing better you can put your faith in than the crucified and risen Christ who died for the sins of the world and is coming again in power and glory from the clouds from where he ascended to, where He sits right now, and just… what an amazing… This is the part that I think now I’m realizing, like ya, how much of my life as a Christian have I gone through not really absorbing this reality; That like my King my savior sitting on the throne, that he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and has… like, what am I afraid of? why am I worrying about all the things that I worry about? why am I chasing after all the idols and all the lusts that I did spend chasing after when Christ is really on the throne of heaven yet cares about me and knows me by name and has been faithful through all of my failures and all of my backsliding and all of my confusion and all of my everything…? What an amazing God who wants to dwell in us and with us as His temple!
I just love at the beginning of Matthew 24 where… that whole sermon starts out with all the Apostles marveling after the buildings and marveling after the stones and all the things built by human hands, and Jesus says “I tell you the truth not one stone will be left on another.” And that’s true not just for the temple in Jerusalem. That’s true for verything that man has ever built, every building, every institution, every government, every economy will eventually all be… “the mountains will melt like wax,” the scripture says. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and only that which is unshakable will remain… “Blessed are those who take place on the first resurrection for the second death has no power over them.
That’s mind blowing. That’s exciting. That’s worthy of worship and reverence and awe. So that’s my prayer, that we would all continue to seek Him and understand the things that were revealed centuries ago that are as true as they’ve ever been…” – TTISTF – (begins mm 1:07)
