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Clear searchThe man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…attention: Second Thessalonians 2 appears to place Antichrist before our gathering. First Corinthians 15 places the resurrection at the "last trump". Revelation 20 calls a post-Tribulation event "the first resurrection". John 6 promises to raise believers "at the last day". None…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…n. Paul desired to depart and be with Christ, which he said was "far better" (Philippians 1:23). To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). Death cannot separate the believer from Christ. But even being with Christ in heaven is not the final ch…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…d, and twelve stones were taken from Jordan as a memorial when Israel entered it (Numbers 13:1-16; Joshua 4:1-9). The tribes were not merely an administrative convenience. Together they represented the covenant nation. Even after the kingdom divided and the northern tribes were s…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…h which Scripture says God dealt with sin. The Qur'an appears to deny that event. Surah 4:157 says of Jesus' opponents: "But they neither killed nor crucified him - it was only made to appear so" (Surah 4:157, The Clear Quran, trans. Mustafa Khattab). The next verse says that All…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
…re the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8); “we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2); and “they shall see his face” (Revelation 22:4). The difficulty begins when this truth is made to carry the whole weight of Christian hope. Eternity can then be imagined as a di…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…rd descending “with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God” (1 Thessalonians 4:16). Nothing secret there. The real question is whether Scripture distinguishes Christ coming for His Church from His later return with His saints. That question cannot be…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…se; living believers are changed; and together they are caught up to meet Him in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:50-54). The question is not whether Christians should believe in that gathering. The question is where it belongs within the wider prophetic program…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…ving believers will be caught up with the resurrected dead "to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thessalonians 4:17). The word translated "to meet" is apantēsis. It is often argued that apantēsis carried a recognised civic meaning. When a ruler or honoured visitor approached a city, a…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…her his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." —Matthew 24:29, 31 If Christ gathers His elect after the Tribulation, why should anyone place the rapture before it? The objection deserves an answer from the context, not the slogan that Matthew concerns Je…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." —1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 The dead in Christ rise. Believers who remain alive are caught up with them. Both companies meet the Lord together and are thereafter always with Him. Whatever positi…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…here it challenges mankind and the jinn together to produce the like of the Qur'an (Surah 17:88). Surah 10:38 calls for one comparable sūrah; Surah 11:13 calls for ten. This challenge became the foundation for the classical doctrine of iʿjāz al-Qurʾān: the Qur'an's miraculous ini…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…s, concealing truth and moving words from their proper places (Surahs 2:79; 3:78; 4:46; 5:13). On this account, the Qur'an confirms the original divine revelations, not every word in the Jewish and Christian books now bearing their names. Surah 5:48 calls the Qur'an muhaymin over…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…est, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens” (Hebrews 8:1). The evidence has been heard. We have examined what Christians mean when they say that God is one. We have followed Jesus through the Gospels and asked whether He can be contained within…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…her his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." —Matthew 24:29, 31 Few passages in prophetic Scripture generate more debate than Matthew 24. At the centre of that debate stands an apparently simple question: who are "the elect" whom Christ gathers after t…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…s what Christ prepared for His people as "this ascension into heaven" (Against Marcion, V.15). In On the Resurrection of the Flesh (41-42), he distinguishes the dead who rise from believers found alive in the flesh. The latter are transformed, put on immortality, and escape death…
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