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Clear searchSigns, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
If Antichrist Must Come First, Is Christ's Coming Imminent? Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await Imminency does not mean that Christ was required to return within the ap…
Read article →Hippolytus · Exposition, prophecy, and polemic · early third century
Hippolytus is especially valuable for readers interested in prophecy. On Christ and Antichrist draws repeatedly from the biblical text and preserves a compelling early discussion of Daniel, the Antichrist, Christ's return, and the future kingdom. His Refutation of All Heres…
View recommendation →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…naeus, writing in the second century, connected Daniel's half-week with a future personal Antichrist, a three-and-a-half-year reign, a temple setting, and Christ's subsequent coming (Against Heresies, V.25 and V.30). In the early third century, Hippolytus explicitly called Daniel…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…etting worth examining alongside it. The temple raises a related question of preparation. Antichrist desecrates a sanctuary already in use. Since the final rulers exercise authority for a limited period, I expect that the temple may already be built, or under construction, when t…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…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 resurrection". John 6 promises to r…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…etribulational evidence. Tertullian's surrounding comments associate those believers with Antichrist's oppression. It is evidence for the complete event: resurrection, living transformation, catching up, and ascent into heaven. Darby plainly did not invent that. Irenaeus and Vict…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…bulationist places it within Daniel's final week. A pre-wrath interpreter places it after Antichrist's persecution but before the concentrated outpouring of divine wrath. A pretribulationist places it before the final seven-year period begins. These positions disagree profoundly…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…ms Other writers preserve similar tensions. Cyril of Jerusalem expected a future personal Antichrist, connected him with a rebuilt Jewish temple, and treated the crisis as still future. Irenaeus defended a future earthly kingdom and used prophetic descriptions of Jerusalem and Is…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…e" (Revelation 6:16-17). The period is therefore more than Christians being persecuted by Antichrist. It is the Day-of-the-Lord judgement reaching a rebellious world through acts authorised and directed from heaven. "Not appointed us to wrath" Paul writes: "For God hath not appoi…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…Paul’s “temple of God” as “the Temple of the Jews which has been destroyed”. He expected Antichrist to deceive Jewish people by presenting himself as the promised son of David associated with rebuilding Solomon’s temple. Cyril also placed Antichrist’s three-and-a-half-year caree…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…ish that the Church remains on earth throughout Daniel’s final week. It does not say that Antichrist persecutes the Church until the instant of Christ’s revelation. It does not describe resurrection, transformation or catching up. It does not identify the rapture as escape from p…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…elf The New Testament repeatedly directs believers towards the Saviour, not first towards Antichrist, a covenant, a rebuilt temple, the abomination, or a numbered sequence of judgements. Believers look for "that blessed hope" (Titus 2:13). Their citizenship is in heaven, "from wh…
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