Present tense

Here we go.

Present simple.

The present simple isn't just about your morning routine.

I brush my teeth every day.

Generally, time phrases go at the end of the sentence.

Single adverbs go before the main verb except after the verb to be.

Present continuous.

The present continuous is more than just what is happening now.

Okay, here is where the theological panic sets in for a pastor.

Omen is present tense.

Yeah.

Does not that just mean continuous linear action? The classic dot and line idea that we all learned in first year Greek?

The dot and line theory is a relic of forcing time onto a spatial-spectral system, and it utterly destroys the exegesis of this passage.

Okay, walk me through it.

The present tense form does not mean continuous time.

It means spatial proximity.