Year end wrap up!

By Elizabeth Prata

The End Time blog history

By God’s grace, I’ve been blogging every day since January 2009. That’s 15 years (next month). That’s more than 6000 blog essays. I started on Blogspot, then moved to WordPress in 2016. Not all the Blogspot blogs exported, since there was a size limit for the exportation. It’s just as well, not all of my earliest blogs are that good.

Here on WordPress I’ve got 6,360 blogs. A few are repeats, but not many. My topics have been discernment, encouragement and theology. I also enjoy writing natural history essays because I like to extol the imagination and power of God in His creation.

It gives me great joy when women say they have been helped in discernment, comforted and encouraged, or enjoyed a theological point from one of my essays.

Uncomfortable with Celebrity & Influence

I don’t seek a huge ministry. I don’t seek to be a celebrity or famous. I don’t want to speak at conferences or retreats or churches. I liked what John MacArthur said years ago about his Grace To You ministry, he concentrates on the depth of the ministry and lets the Holy Spirit take care of the breadth. I truly don’t desire to ‘see my name in lights’ or anything. I believe it’s good advice. I believe it’s important to just do what I do based on my interpretation of His leading, and leave the rest to the Holy Spirit.

Where you can find my work

I put up a scripture-picture every day that uses one of my photographs, a devotional, and a new blog. I also record a podcast almost every day. I use 4 social media platforms. My social media pages are Twitter under elizabethprata, Facebook page The End Time Blog, Instagram under eprata7777, and Spotify under the name The End Time Blog Podcast. For the first time since 2009, I may or may not blog every single day this year. I want to release some pressure on myself. We’ll see. I might just be so ingrained by now that I can’t let up, lol.

Ministry Goals

My goal with this ministry comprised of my blog and other social media, are three fold. To 1) encourage, to 2) discern, and 3) to offer links and material from credible ministries from today and the past. There is so much false and fluff out there, I try to do my part in warning women about the bad and passing along the good.

2023 End-of-Year roundup

Which blog essays were most popular? Discernment essays have been the most popular since earliest days of this blog. And that is a good thing. I like to think it is because people care about their walk with Christ and want to be more pure rather than less pure in their doctrine.

When I write that this teacher or that teacher is false, it often causes a stir, but again that is good. Satan defends his territory. Of those who come here with negative comments, though, I can try and win them. And even if I don’t win those folks, lots of others lurk and read, absorbing the concepts put forth in the pitched discussion.

For the last three years, the same essay always comes out as most viewed:

Bullet points on why Joyce Meyer is a false teacher

Mrs. Meyer has an enormous following, and interest in her constantly runs high.

Second in popularity for 2023 is a new discernment essay: Discerning Lori Alexander, “The Transformed Wife” of @Godlywomanhood. This surprised me since I posted it only a few months ago. Lori Alexander is another false teacher with a huge following, and I mean huge. She also relentlessly posts her superficially-seemingly good but deeply false concepts across an astounding variety of social media platforms. For a (hyper-patriarchal) woman whose main claim is that women should strictly tend to her husband and her home, her children and her grandchildren solely, she does an awful lot of work on TikTok, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blog, MeWe, Parler, Gab…ugh. Satan is a roaming lion seeking who he may devour and he uses every means at his disposal to do so. Lori is one of satan’s. Avoid Lori Alexander, she’s toxic.

Third: most popular blog essay for 2023 is an essay I’d posted 7 years ago! This one regularly lands in the top three every year as well: Two divorce cases: Summer White and Melissa Moore. In that essay I’d posted two prominent ministry women who happened to get divorced the same year, Summer White Pinch (now Jaeger) and Beth Moore’s daughter Melissa Moore Fitzpatrick. There is a right way to get divorced (if you have to) and a wrong way. Maybe you can guess which woman exemplified the right way and which was the wrong one…

Fourth: This one also lands in the top five every year. It is an 8-year-old essay which still garners lots of views: Dr David Jeremiah’s shocking apostasy, Updated.

In discernment, it’s a continuum. You don’t want to declare someone false too soon, that is a blot against Jesus and uncharitable to fellow man. But then again you don’t want to endlessly gather every bit of everlasting evidence, waiting too long before warning people of the teacher’s danger. It’s a delicate balance. I don’t need lots to tell me someone is false. There were three items which told me David Platt was false, (essay coming this week on him), and three that for me put Jeremiah into the false column. I have some no-go boundaries. For Dr. Jeremiah, his merchandising at the pulpit was a shock and it tipped the balance for me when combined with other evidence. You can read the other items that indicate he’s false at the link.

Here are the top 14 essays for 2023:

Discernment

I am eternally grateful the Holy Spirit has apparently given me the gift of “distinguishing of spirits” 1 Corinthians 12:10. Sometimes it’s stressful, but it’s always interesting and edifying in the end. I am grateful for this gift, and do my best to hone it, cherish it, and curate it through the training up in the word (Hebrews 5:14). I am also glad when I can encourage women through the Word of God, pointing to Jesus always.

I use the blog also to sort of ‘process out loud’. I process deep concepts through writing, and initially I just wrote because I was trying to figure out stuff. That anyone would enjoy what I write always surprises me. But I’m so glad!

Other Social Media

My Facebook page The End Time has a good amount of reach where my content seems to fulfill the goals I have to encourage or help ladies discern. And Instagram too.

I will do a separate blog essay containing a roundup for my podcast. I’m very happy to serve the Lord in this way.

Thank you, my readers and listeners! Here’s to 2024. Amazing that we’ve gone almost a quarter of the way into the new century!