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Clear searchThe Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…its sanctuary. That creates a serious question. If Jesus is the Messiah, and if Daniel’s prophecy speaks of the Messiah being cut off before the Second Temple was destroyed, how can the Qur’an preserve His title while denying His death? The argument must be made carefully. Danie…
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…
View recommendation →E. W. Bullinger · Sermons · 1892
I recommend these sermons because Bullinger treats the Second Advent as a great biblical theme rather than an isolated prophetic curiosity. He ranges across the Law, Prophets, Psalms, Gospels, Epistles, and Revelation, drawing attention to the sheer weight of Scripture…
View recommendation →E. W. Bullinger · Verse-by-verse commentary · 1902
…put down because page after page opened another line of enquiry and sent me back into the biblical text. Bullinger's interpretive framework is distinctive and some of his conclusions are highly disputed. That is precisely why this book should be read as an investigation rather th…
View recommendation →Four popular claims tested in context
…im. If Muhammad was genuinely foretold in the Bible, Christians must face the evidence. A prophecy does not cease to be true because its fulfilment is unwelcome. Muslim apologists commonly appeal to four passages: the prophet like Moses in Deuteronomy 18; the Servant and Kedar in…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…out. Does this establish a pretribulation rapture by itself? No. It supplies a meaningful biblical pattern, but patterns must support clear teaching rather than replace it. Abraham's question concerns God's justice Genesis 18 does not portray Abraham teaching God something He had…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…fore cannot fairly be dismissed as a translation created after the event to manufacture a prophecy. The Greek evidence does not settle every interpretive question. Parthenos itself can occasionally be used more broadly, and a translator's choice is not inspired proof of the later…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
Is the Pretribulation Rapture Without Biblical Basis? A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation In an article published by the Christian Research Institute, Hank Hanegraaff argues th…
Read article →The brothers of Jesus, the sons of Mary, and an argument of strong plausibility
…s imposed upon an unrelated poem. Taken together, they establish Psalm 69 as an important biblical pattern of the Messiah’s righteous suffering. The question considered here is whether Psalm 69:8 belongs to that same pattern: “I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien…
Read article →Seth D. Postell, Eitan Bar & Erez Soref · Messianic biblical theology · 2017
A study of how the Torah reaches its goal in Yeshua, addressing how Moses points to Messiah, the purpose of the Law, the place of rabbinic tradition, and the relationship of Jewish and Gentile believers to the Torah's commandments.
View recommendation →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
Secret Rapture—or Biblical Distinction? Why a loaded label does not settle the question “The secret rapture is unbiblical.” The phrase is repeated so often that it can sound like an argument. It is not. Pretr…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…s this fulfilled, or is it still future?” That is often a necessary question when reading biblical prophecy. Sometimes, however, it becomes an inadequate question because it assumes that a prophecy must belong entirely to one historical moment. Isaiah does not always speak that w…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…son Darby, turns the Church into God's failed contingency plan, ignores the fulfilment of prophecy in AD 70, baptises modern politics, and restores animal sacrifices in competition with the cross. Some dispensationalists have spoken carelessly on these subjects, and not every obj…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…u a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." —1 Corinthians 15:51 A biblical mystery is not necessarily something never hinted at in any form. It is a divine purpose previously hidden or not disclosed with its present clarity. The bodily resurrection was not…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…9, and the people of God Michael Horton's essay, “No Holy Land: Does Israel Still Have a Biblical Claim on the Middle East?”, presents a concise Reformed case against dispensational land theology. Horton argues that Israel's possession of Canaan was conditional, that the promise…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…tate is not yet the cleansed, believing, peaceful Israel described at the consummation of prophecy. It does force an important question: how should we read the many passages in which God promises to preserve Israel as a nation, gather its scattered people, restore them to the lan…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…permission to excuse every other kind of corruption, cruelty, dishonesty or incompetence. Biblical judgement is more serious than counting how many boxes each party ticks. We must ask what kind of issue is before us, how grave and direct the threatened wrong is, what authority th…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
Israel and the Church: Why This Series Matters The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God Has the Church replaced Israel in the purpose of God? Some Christians answer yes, although they may prefer words such as fulfilled, transformed, or expand…
Read article →Eitan Bar · Biblical and historical polemic · 2019
…discussing Yeshua with Jewish people bring valuable context to questions about messianic prophecy, the New Testament, and rabbinic interpretation. The book is most useful when it sends the reader back to the Hebrew Scriptures to ask whether the traditional objection really accou…
View recommendation →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…ative Christians, the question can feel politically loaded before it has even been opened biblically. Environmental concern has become so closely associated with the political left, liberal theology, nature mysticism, animism, and neo-paganism that some Christians instinctively r…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…rior descent of Revelation 19. Those questions must be answered from the wider context of prophecy. This limitation cuts both ways. The passage alone does not prove a seven-year heavenly interval. It also does not narrate an immediate return to the earth. Any interpreter who supp…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…hing. The word Trinity does not appear in the text either; the doctrine is named from the biblical facts it organises. Paul says that living believers "shall be caught up" (1 Thessalonians 4:17). The Greek verb is harpazō, meaning to seize, snatch, or carry away. The Latin Vulgat…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
A working theory connecting Rome’s restraining authority with the final concentration of power, while considering when temple preparation might begin.
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…athered to Christ. The argument in its strongest form The Thessalonians were not debating prophecy from the safety of an academic seminar. They were suffering. Paul commends their “patience and faith” in all the persecutions and tribulations they endured (2 Thessalonians 1:4). He…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…entieth week. Seventy sevens for Daniel's people and city Daniel 9 begins with Jeremiah's prophecy of Jerusalem's seventy years of desolation. Daniel confesses Israel's covenant rebellion and pleads for "thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain" (Daniel 9:16). Gabriel's answer retai…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…expect Christ without naming a date; observe the age without forcing every headline into prophecy; test claims from the text rather than the confidence of the speaker; live ready to meet Christ while remaining busy in the work He has assigned. After repeated false predictions, C…
Read article →Michael J. Vlach · Biblical theology · 2023
…ion. Vlach writes from a premillennial, dispensational framework, so readers who approach prophecy differently will meet conclusions they may wish to test carefully. Read it with the relevant biblical passages open and weigh each part of the case from Scripture. Bodily resurrecti…
View recommendation →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…erwise. Firstborn status also carries the associations of inheritance and precedence. The biblical use is not confined to birth order. God calls Israel His firstborn (Exodus 4:22), and in Psalm 89:27 says of the Davidic king: “Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the ki…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…t undertaking made centuries after Sinai. The "better promises" are displayed in the very prophecy Hebrews quotes. God writes His law upon the heart, brings His people into the knowledge of Himself, and remembers their sins no more (Hebrews 8:10-12). The improvement lies in the c…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…terary challenge. The book also contains statements which Muslims understand as fulfilled prophecy, especially the prediction that the defeated Romans would reverse their fortunes. Its text was memorised, written, collected and transmitted with remarkable stability. Its language…
Read article →Dave Hunt · Devotional theology and biblical exhortation · 2000
…wonder, and urgency of ordinary Christian faithfulness. This is a collection of forceful biblical exhortations rather than a systematic treatment of one doctrine. Hunt writes urgently and sometimes moves quickly across large and disputed subjects, including prophecy, the Church,…
View recommendation →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…ess. They gave him the authority to call Israel to its Messiah. Gentile inclusion fulfils prophecy without excluding Israel Acts 15 is rightly central to this discussion. Gentiles were entering the people of God without circumcision or submission to the Mosaic law. James recognis…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…or a substitute for doctrinal argument. Imagine a Christian whose faith is assembled from prophecy videos, private impressions, conference speakers, and a succession of teachers who claim to have recovered what nearly everyone else has missed. He speaks often of leaving this worl…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…able mistake was to allow present historical appearance to determine the limits of future prophecy. The same prophets who foretold scattering had also foretold a restoration which depended upon God's power precisely because no ordinary historical process could achieve it. The Rom…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…she will receive a new name from the mouth of the LORD. The geographical character of the prophecy is difficult to miss. Isaiah speaks about Zion, Jerusalem, her land, her walls, her watchmen, her grain, her wine, her gates, and the highway by which the people return. The chapter…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…why a settled claim to faith accompanied by a settled refusal of Christ's rule creates a biblical contradiction. Titus describes people who “profess that they know God; but in works they deny him” (Titus 1:16). Their profession and practice point in opposite directions. We shoul…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…al fiction, not the Jesus presented across the Gospels. If he leaves because thousands of biblical manuscripts have been presented as thousands of corruptions, while every form of Qur’anic textual plurality is classified as perfect preservation, he has been taught two standards r…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…restoration. It should neither be ignored nor declared the completed fulfilment of every prophecy. The nation remains largely in unbelief; the promised cleansing, corporate turning to Messiah, outpouring of the Spirit, and righteous reign have not yet occurred. The biblical expe…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…scourse is rooted in the land and institutions of Israel. Clue two: "elect" already has a biblical history The word "elect" does not arrive in Matthew without a history. In the Greek Old Testament and the KJV's rendering of Israel's Scriptures, election language can refer to the…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…rather than erasure. Twelve means Israel Israel's twelve-tribe identity runs through the biblical story. Jacob's twelve sons became the heads of the tribes. Moses built an altar with twelve pillars "according to the twelve tribes of Israel" (Exodus 24:4). Twelve men represented…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…h the Father: the Father speaks to the Son at His baptism (Mark 1:11). Yet he has taken a prophecy about preparing the way for the LORD and placed Jesus at its point of arrival. That is not yet a complete doctrine of the Trinity. It is something more basic and disruptive to the c…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…ate rulers while remaining Israel's ultimate King. Israel's tribes remain identifiable in prophecy The tribal language in Matthew 19 is not isolated. Ezekiel's restoration vision joins two divided kingdoms into one nation and later allocates the renewed land by tribes (Ezekiel 37…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…people becoming His people (Romans 9:23-26). Gentile inclusion is a genuine fulfilment of prophecy and Abrahamic promise. But notice how Paul describes them: they are called of the Gentiles. He does not say, "Gentiles are now Israel." They become God's people, receive mercy, and…
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