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Clear searchSigns, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…The New Testament repeatedly directs believers towards Christ Himself: "Looking for that blessed 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 Je…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…hrist's return, resurrection, transformation, and catching up as parts of the same future hope. Nor is pretribulationism a condition of salvation. Christians who confess the bodily resurrection and return of Christ may disagree over the sequence while belonging to the same Lord.…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…hians 1:20). The Church also shares blessings once associated with Israel's covenants and hope. Gentile believers who were "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise" have been "made nigh by the blood of Christ" (Ephesians 2:12-13). In on…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…ngdom divided and the northern tribes were scattered, Scripture continued to preserve the hope of all Israel. The prophets anticipated Judah and Israel being gathered under one King: "And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…t temple, the abomination, or a numbered sequence of judgements. Believers look for "that blessed hope" (Titus 2:13). Their citizenship is in heaven, "from whence also we look for the Saviour" (Philippians 3:20). James says the coming of the Lord draws near and the Judge stands b…
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