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Pressing On Through It All: Scriptural Encouragement For These Last Days
As former members of the New Age movement, Warren Smith and his wife Joy have spent over thirty years actively warning about the deceptive teachings of the New Age/New Spirituality that have progressively crept into the church. For the last ten years, to offset the spiritual heaviness that often accompanies this kind of ministry, Warren has studied, compiled, and arranged certain Scriptures around specific themes that provided he and his wife with encouragement and spiritual uplift. Almost as an afterthought, these personal studies became small booklets that were made available to share with others. Warren used the theme “through it all” and hoped the booklets would bring to people the same scriptural encouragement he and Joy have received from them.Now all the booklets have been combined into one book. May this volume of thematic scriptural inspiration comfort and strengthen you in your endeavor to keep pressing on—through it all.
224 pages, Paperback
Published August 10, 2017
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April 8, 2025
PROS
+ Great encouragement. I literally sang in the Spirit while listening to this book. What a joy of a book.
+ The book can be read as devotional, and includes many small word studies (e.g. on giving thanks) and overall many Bible verses.
+ Very good that it includes (encouragement for) discernment between the lines.
+ No questionable endorsements or references (except the Gettys > Calvinists).
CONS
- While the author endorses Thanksgiving, it would have been wise to add a remark that this is not a biblical festival.
- He erroneously associates Daniel 12:11-12 with our end times. This is sadly a very common error. When we go back to verse 9, we notice that the wording 'sealed up until the end of times' cannot refer to our future, because we can already read the words of Daniel 12, meaning the seal had already been broken when the letter of Daniel became public (see also Isa 29:11-12 "Read this, he says, I cannot, for it is sealed."). While we instinctively associate 'end of times' with our future, it can also and in this case must refer to the end of an earlier period in history.
Dan 12:8-13: "And I heard, but I understood not: and I said, O Lord, what will be the end of these things? 9 And He said, Go, Daniel: for the words are closed and sealed up to the time of the end. 10 Many must be tested, and thoroughly whitened, and tried with fire, and sanctified; but the transgressors shall transgress: and none of the transgressors shall understand; but the wise shall understand. 11 And from the time of the removal of the perpetual sacrifice, when the abomination of desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. 13 But go thou, and rest; for there are yet days and seasons to the fulfillment of the end; and thou shalt stand in thy lot at the end of the days."
The only Bible passages which are still sealed are those in the book of Revelation, e.g. of Rev 10:1-11 (the Little Scroll of the Seven Thunders which most probably includes IESOUS' Second Coming, but we cannot yet read it and therefore we cannot solve the book of Revelation)
QUOTES OF THE BOOK
"However in today's compromised church, spiritual experience seems to be the name of the game. Consequently, there seems to be more interest in a word from G-d rather than in the Word of G-d."
"Let us not be deceived. Jesus warned that worldwide deception — not worldwide rejoicing and worldwide revival — would be the chief sign at the end of time (Mat 24:3-5). While New Age teachers proclaim the coming of a great 'Global Spiritual Awakening' and a 'Planetary Pentecost', deceived Christian leaders similarly proclaim the coming of a great 'Global Spiritual Awakening' and a 'Second Pentecost'. However, the Bible warns of global deception, the coming of Antichrist, and a planetary holoc***."
+ Great encouragement. I literally sang in the Spirit while listening to this book. What a joy of a book.
+ The book can be read as devotional, and includes many small word studies (e.g. on giving thanks) and overall many Bible verses.
+ Very good that it includes (encouragement for) discernment between the lines.
+ No questionable endorsements or references (except the Gettys > Calvinists).
CONS
- While the author endorses Thanksgiving, it would have been wise to add a remark that this is not a biblical festival.
- He erroneously associates Daniel 12:11-12 with our end times. This is sadly a very common error. When we go back to verse 9, we notice that the wording 'sealed up until the end of times' cannot refer to our future, because we can already read the words of Daniel 12, meaning the seal had already been broken when the letter of Daniel became public (see also Isa 29:11-12 "Read this, he says, I cannot, for it is sealed."). While we instinctively associate 'end of times' with our future, it can also and in this case must refer to the end of an earlier period in history.
Dan 12:8-13: "And I heard, but I understood not: and I said, O Lord, what will be the end of these things? 9 And He said, Go, Daniel: for the words are closed and sealed up to the time of the end. 10 Many must be tested, and thoroughly whitened, and tried with fire, and sanctified; but the transgressors shall transgress: and none of the transgressors shall understand; but the wise shall understand. 11 And from the time of the removal of the perpetual sacrifice, when the abomination of desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. 13 But go thou, and rest; for there are yet days and seasons to the fulfillment of the end; and thou shalt stand in thy lot at the end of the days."
The only Bible passages which are still sealed are those in the book of Revelation, e.g. of Rev 10:1-11 (the Little Scroll of the Seven Thunders which most probably includes IESOUS' Second Coming, but we cannot yet read it and therefore we cannot solve the book of Revelation)
QUOTES OF THE BOOK
"However in today's compromised church, spiritual experience seems to be the name of the game. Consequently, there seems to be more interest in a word from G-d rather than in the Word of G-d."
"Let us not be deceived. Jesus warned that worldwide deception — not worldwide rejoicing and worldwide revival — would be the chief sign at the end of time (Mat 24:3-5). While New Age teachers proclaim the coming of a great 'Global Spiritual Awakening' and a 'Planetary Pentecost', deceived Christian leaders similarly proclaim the coming of a great 'Global Spiritual Awakening' and a 'Second Pentecost'. However, the Bible warns of global deception, the coming of Antichrist, and a planetary holoc***."
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