What if we have misunderstood the “last days” by not listening closely enough to the people who lived them first? The Last Days According to Jesus’ Family retells the New Testament through the witness of Mary and Jesus’ brothers James and Jude—voices that bring fresh clarity to Acts 15, sharpen Jude’s warnings about distortion, and reframe prophecy as covenant faithfulness rather than fear or political triumph.
Rooted in the Abrahamic promise of blessing for all peoples, this book calls the Western church back to an older storyline: Israel’s continuing role, the nations’ grafted-in hope, and a renewed attention to the whole family of Abraham—including the often-forgotten threads of Ishmael and Esau.
For readers weary of end-times hype, this is an invitation to recover a sturdier hope: the one Jesus’ own family carried.
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Biblical BiographyTable of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1—The Wound and the Witness
- Chapter 2—Why This Generation Distrusts Prophecy Teachers
- Chapter 3—Mary: The Bridge of Mercy
- Interlude 1—Behold Your Mother
- Chapter 4—James: The Habits That Hold Us
- Chapter 5—Jude: The Mercy That Contends
- Interlude 2—Graffiti on the Walls of Empire
- Chapter 6—Jesus: The Face of the Father
- Chapter 7—A Lost Sister Found at Jacob’s Well
- Interlude 3—Israel as Relationship: the Apostle Paul
- Chapter 8—Who Were the Netzarim/Notzrim?
- Chapter 9—Remembering the Abrahamic Families Today
- Epilogue—When the Family Gathers Again
- Appendix 1—The Last Days According to the Bible
- Appendix 2—How Covenant History Moves in Cycles
- Appendix 3—The Jews of Jesus’ Day and Ours
- Appendix 4—Beyond Full Preterism and Pure Futurism
- Appendix 5—Relating to Muslims
- Appendix 6—We Are All Prophets
- Closing Thought—The Celestial City and the Healed Temple
- Recommended Reading
- Bibliography
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