The headlines keep proving the same point: America doesn’t have a noise problem—it has a truth problem.
Every day it’s something new—identity debates, speech battles, moral lines being redrawn in real time. What was obvious five years ago is now “controversial.” What was stable is now negotiable. Culture isn’t just shifting. It’s untethered.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” — Isaiah 5:20
That’s not ancient history—that’s today’s news cycle.
We’re watching a society try to function without fixed truth. And it doesn’t work. It can’t work. Because when truth becomes personal preference, reality starts breaking down. So people get louder. More aggressive. More defensive.
Because deep down, everyone knows something’s off.
Here’s the difference: culture chases approval—truth confronts reality. Our Lord didn’t adjust truth to fit the crowd. He stood on it, even when it cost Him everything.
So What?
And that’s where this lands for us. We don’t need to win arguments online. We don’t need to out-shout the culture. We need to be anchored.
Because when everything around us shifts, the only thing that keeps us standing is something that doesn’t. Truth isn’t evolving. It’s been established.
If our beliefs change with the culture, they were never built on truth to begin with.
Here are four powerful quotes from well-known spiritual leaders and thinkers about the Book of Ecclesiastes.
Donald Miller (Christian author & speaker)
“It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.”
Mark Driscoll (Pastor & author)
“Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting somewhere only to die and fall off so that the new young stud can take his turn peddling… We would be wise to see postmodernity as simply the new guy on the old bike and not mistake cultural change for kingdom progress.”
Philip Yancey (Christian thinker & bestselling author)
“As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.”
Paulo Coelho (International spiritual writer)
“A time to be born, and a time to die… a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.”
Some recent archaeological discoveries in the Holy Land.
Byzantine‑Era Church Damaged by Hezbollah Rocket (Nahariya, Northern Israel)
Date: April 12, 2026 A Hezbollah rocket strike hit a protective structure covering a Byzantine‑era church in Nahariya. The church—originally destroyed by the Persians in 614 CE and restored by the Israel Antiquities Authority—suffered new damage. This incident brought renewed attention to the site’s mosaics and its long restoration history. Jerusalem Post
Mass Infant Burial Discovered in Ancient Cistern at Tel Azekah
Date: April 1, 2026 Archaeologists uncovered a mass grave of 89 infants inside a cistern at Tel Azekah. The find includes pottery jars, beads, copper jewelry, and stone tools, offering a rare and sobering window into life—and death—in biblical‑era Judah. Israel365 News
Sunken Ship Yields Iron Blooms Revealing Ancient Israel’s Metallurgy
Date: March 30, 2026 A shipwreck off Israel’s coast produced iron blooms—raw iron masses—providing new insight into ancient Israel’s maritime trade and metal‑production economy. The discovery helps reconstruct how iron technology spread and was transported in the region. Israel365 News
There will be a time when, in the restored creation, a beautiful new paradigm will be the reality for God’s people, creation, and all creatures. Peace and justice will reign under the mighty hand of God and the righteous King He has set to reign forever, Jesus Christ.
But nowhere does the Bible say, “The lion shall lie down with the lamb.”
That is an often‑used phrase that paints a nice picture—but it’s just not in Scripture.
The biblicaltext is Isaiah 11:6, which says: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” (KJV)
To monitor current news and events related to faith and culture.
To provide an alternative viewpoint to the world’s pervasive climate of darkness, nihilism, and hopelessness for those seeking truth, light, and purpose.
To examine and question the assumptions of religious tradition and provide a resource for information and inspiration for people of faith who have become dissatisfied with an increasingly lifeless and empty ‘churchianity’.
To present the Biblical truths which reveal God’s nature and purposes and proclaim the lifechanging, world-altering, radical message of Yeshua the Messiah – Jesus Christ, our risen Lord and Savior.
At Bible Rebel, this is our one and only creed: Our living God is a loving God and the Bible is His revealed word and will. Our hope and eternal salvation relies entirely on the work of God’s only begotten son, Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
So, expect some controversial viewpoints and uncomfortable ideas in some of the coming content from Bible Rebel.
We’ll also be continuing our regular features, guest articles, and series:
Biblical Literacy: What the Bible does and doesn’t say
They Said It: Poignant quotes on a variety of topics
Guest articles
And more…
Watchdogs
As always, we’ll be keeping a watchdogs eye on all of the latest political, religious, biblical archaeology, and cultural news and events from around the world and bringing to you in bite-size chunks to keep you informed.
The folks who hated Jesus most, and the ones he leveled his most scathing rebukes at, were the religious leaders of his time and culture.
Followers of Yeshua the Messiah shouldn’t be surprised or discouraged by the ridicule and snarky attacks on us because of our faith, or by the tiresome and faithless virtue‑signaling and false preaching and teaching coming from the poohbahs and “leaders” of organized churchianity.
Just remember what the religious and political leaders of that time and that culture did to our Lord over 2,000 years ago, and to the faithful in subsequent generations.
There’s nothing new under the sun.
This present age is not our friend, but there is a day certain when this present age ends and the suffering Servant becomes a reigning King.
On Monday I posed a simple question: What is the point and purpose of the resurrection of Jesus Christ if believers go immediately to heaven when they die?
Now let’s ask a similar question which also deserves a logical, biblical answer: What is the purpose of the so-called “Rapture” if believers who have died are already in heaven shouting, “Hallelujah!”, flying around playing harps, and dancing on streets of gold with previously deceased loved ones?
If your answer is that the soul has to be reunited with the physical body, then I would love to see the plain, definitive scriptural basis for that theory. Plain and definitive proof texts, not theological and logical contortions invented to make the Bible say what you want it to say.
So, here’s a question that deserves serious consideration and a logical, biblical answer: What is the point and purpose of the resurrection of Jesus Christ if believers go immediately to heaven when they die?
Why would “He is risen!” hold any special meaning if the faithful are already dancing and singing, alive and well in heaven from the moment of their own death?
If the immortality of the soul is true, then there is no reason for God to raise Jesus from the dead, because death would hold no power or sting over us. Easter Sunday becomes meaningless if the resurrection isn’t a once‑in‑human‑history, glorious, miraculous event that announces to creation that death does not have the final say.
If all believers are immediately and individually transferred to heaven after they breathe their last breath, then Jesus being made alive again after three days isn’t just ho‑hum—it’s three days of being unnecessarily dead.
He walked and talked in His resurrected body with two, just two, of His followers on the Road to Emmaus. Probably the most remarkable and intimate Scripture teaching ever.
Just take a few minutes to read the account from Luke 24:12-35 and meditate on it.
The Road to Emmaus
“But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.
Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him.
And He said to them, “What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you walk and are sad?”
Then the one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, “Are You the only stranger in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these days?”
And He said to them, “What things?”
So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be condemned to death, and crucified Him. But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us. When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was alive. And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.”
Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther. But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them.
Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.
And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” And they told about the things that had happened on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of bread.”
