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The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…s which appear least friendly to it. Four objections deserve particular 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 re…
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Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…d hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." —Titus 2:13 "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ." —Philippians 3:20 The object of expectation is not first the Antichrist, a covenant…
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Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…Revelation returns to Daniel's imagery and repeatedly uses periods of forty-two months, 1,260 days, and "a time, and times, and half a time". The question is whether these are disconnected crises or the developing parts of one prophetic structure. If the correlations hold, the Ne…
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The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…; 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 programme…
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