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Clear searchA 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 →E. W. Bullinger · Verse-by-verse commentary · 1902
…because Bullinger makes the journey through the text so absorbing and so deep. He notices structures, verbal connections, and details which many readers will never have considered. The work is very long, yet I found it difficult to put down because page after page opened another…
View recommendation →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 →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…Church during Revelation's Judgements? Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse The argument that the word church disappears after Revelation 3 is often stated as though silence alone proves a rapture between chapters 3 and 4. It does not. A…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…the same as confirmed, but the mind can easily confuse familiarity with evidence. Network structure can also create a "majority illusion" in which a relatively uncommon view appears common because highly connected or highly active people are disproportionately visible. Meanwhile,…
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 →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…t calls him a prophet and places him among the righteous. Nor need a Muslim deny that the biblical covenant passed through Isaac in some historical sense. The broader Islamic claim is that Abraham's legacy was never confined to Israel. Ishmael was also a prophet, helped Abraham r…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…rist’s revelation. The rapture exists to remove Christians from persecution. The first is biblical. The second is not the pretribulation claim. Would we find the rapture without first reading it in a book? Brown also tells an honest and rhetorically powerful personal story. He ha…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…uestion is whether these are disconnected crises or the developing parts of one prophetic structure. If the correlations hold, the New Testament Tribulation is the still-future completion of Daniel's seventieth week. Seventy sevens for Daniel's people and city Daniel 9 begins wit…
Read article →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 →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…self, establish what the experience means. The Bible contains overwhelming encounters The biblical answer is not that every unusual or overwhelming experience must be false. Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up and became painfully conscious of his sin. Daniel lost his strength…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…re them to the land, cleanse them, pour out His Spirit, and bring them under Messiah? The biblical pattern is not merely return. It is national restoration completed by spiritual regeneration. Scattering and regathering belong to the same promise Moses warned Israel that covenant…
Read article →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…e circumcised in the flesh while remaining uncircumcised in heart (Jeremiah 9:25-26). The biblical contrast therefore existed within Israel long before the Church. A person could bear Abraham's physical sign and remain inwardly rebellious. The answer was not to deny that he was e…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…cosmos. The material order did not simply suffer from sin within God's good creation. Its structure reflected ignorance, deficiency, or hostile rule. Some systems sharply opposed the unknown Father to the Creator portrayed in the Old Testament; others developed subtler accounts o…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…Qur'an is said to be linguistically inimitable, scientifically prescient, mathematically structured, perfectly preserved, prophetically accurate and beyond the natural ability of Muhammad. Its transformation of individuals and civilisations is offered as further confirmation. So…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…ratives The Qur’an did not emerge in a cultural vacuum. It appeared in a world alive with biblical names, Jewish interpretation, Christian preaching, sectarian disagreement, devotional legend and stories carried across languages by travellers, merchants, clergy and ordinary belie…
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 →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 →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved." —Romans 9:27 The structure matters. The many are still called "the children of Israel," while the saved remnant comes from among them. Paul does not need to rename the remainder Gentiles in order to distingu…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…e Lord’s Supper as commands of Christ. I could worship under recognised elders, submit to biblical discipline and stand beside ordinary Christians whose transformed lives display the grace of God more eloquently than many theological books. Yet that would not be enough. Full comm…
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