My name is Rick Thomet, and I’m a believer in Jesus Christ living in Amarillo, Texas. I’m not a pastor, theologian, or official spokesperson for any denomination. I’m simply a face in the back of the crowd of believers—someone who has been touched by Jesus and the Holy Spirit and has spent the last several years wrestling with fundamental questions about what it means to actually follow Him in a world overflowing with competing interpretations of Scripture.

For most of my Christian life, I accepted what I was told about faith without digging deeper. I attended church, said the right prayers, and assumed I understood what it meant to be a Christian. But over time, I began to notice something troubling: the Christian world seemed fractured into a thousand different denominations and interpretations, each one claiming to be the authentic voice of God. Some emphasized grace; others emphasized works. Some predicted a rapture; others rejected that notion entirely. Some focused on social justice; others on personal holiness. Sincere believers—people I respected—held fundamentally different views about what Scripture actually teaches, yet each was convinced they had found the truth.

This diversity of interpretation led me into an extended season of searching. I studied different theological frameworks—premillennialism, postmillennialism, amillennialism, preterism, and various combinations thereof. I read biblical scholarship, church history, and contemporary theology. And gradually, through prayer, study, and honest wrestling with Scripture, I began to see a pattern emerge. It became clear to me that we are living in what the Bible describes as the final birth pangs and and the beginning of tribulation as the world approaches Jesus’ second coming and the end of the age; mans final rebellion before Christ’s return. The signs are everywhere: spiritual confusion, technological acceleration, geopolitical chaos, and an increasing pressure toward global systems that prioritize control and uniformity over human dignity and true freedom. I’ve come to believe that Jesus’s return is imminent, and that many of us—the saints, the believers—will be here to face this overwhelming tribulation, not as victims but as overcomers standing firm in Christ when He comes.

But my understanding of the end times led me to an even deeper conviction: that when Christ returns, the earth will not be destroyed but renewed. God didn’t create this world as a temporary experiment. He created it as an eternal home where He could dwell with those made in His image. The kingdom of God is not an ethereal escape from physicality; it’s the restoration of all things, the healing of creation itself, a New Eden where believers will reign with Christ, bearing responsibility for stewarding and restoring what was broken by sin. This vision of the future shaped everything I began to write.