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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 →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 →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 →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 →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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