Note: This column is part of a daily series Lively is writing – "30 Days of Pride-Month Push-Back." An oxymoron is a rhetorical self-contradiction, like combining the word "gay" – meaning some peoples' deliberate self-identification with the shameful, disease-spreading lifestyle of sodomy – with the word "pride." Another example is defining the social goal of…
Ever since I began studying prophecy seriously at a scholarly level in early 2011, I have been persuaded that ours is the last generation of the Age of the Gentiles and that our experience as Christians in the temporal world would increasingly mirror that of the first generation in the Age of the Apostles, ending…