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Clear searchThe 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…
Read article →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…
Read article →Ezekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over
Did God Give Laws That Were Not Good? Ezekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over “I gave them also statutes that were not good.” Those words in Ezekiel 20:25 can sound startling when read alone. The following ver…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…le are abandoned to an unparalleled holocaust. He then appeals to John 5, Daniel, Matthew 24, Romans 8 and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 to reject the system. Some of his criticism is directed particularly towards the language of Tim LaHaye and popular Left Behind present…
Read article →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…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…therefore include both what a person understood and how he responded to the light he had. 2 Thessalonians 2:10. The gospel can be stated in propositions. Those propositions are indispensable. Yet conversion involves more than agreeing that a collection of Christian sentences is c…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…ial sequel to my rapture book, I have been revisiting Paul’s account of the restrainer in 2 Thessalonians 2. Something holds back the revelation of the final lawless ruler. The Thessalonians knew what Paul meant. We have his letter, but not the earlier conversation to which he re…
Read article →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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