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Clear searchThe near was real. The far is still coming.
The King, Zion and the Coming Kingdom: Reading Isaiah 32–35 Across the Prophetic Horizon The near was real. The far is still coming. The historical horizon and the question of fulfilment “Was this fulfilled, or is…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
Was the Kingdom Taken from Israel? The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards Few statements of Jesus appear to support supersessionism more directly than Matthe…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…rity. Each part should be allowed to retain its natural force. The promise belongs to the coming renewal Jesus places the apostolic thrones "in the regeneration". The word describes renewal or re-creation. Its only other New Testament occurrence refers to the believer's spiritual…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
The Earth's Great Sabbath Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ The Christian hope for creation rests neither in human effort nor in escape from the material world. The creation groans for the return of its rightful King, the revel…
Read article →Hippolytus · Exposition, prophecy, and polemic · early third century
…a compelling early discussion of Daniel, the Antichrist, Christ's return, and the future kingdom. His Refutation of All Heresies also records and challenges many competing teachings. Together the writings offer a high view of Scripture, vigorous rebuttal, a clear premillennial w…
View recommendation →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…se fellow believers have died. He assures them that the departed will not miss the Lord's coming: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are a…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…4:16). Nothing secret there. The real question is whether Scripture distinguishes Christ coming for His Church from His later return with His saints. That question cannot be answered by attaching a loaded label to one side. It must be answered by comparing the passages themselve…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…ouble His people will receive righteous recompense, while those who have suffered for His kingdom will be publicly vindicated. The rest in view belongs to that judicial reversal. It is not a technical description of the rapture, and it does not identify escape from persecution as…
Read article →E. W. Bullinger · Sermons · 1892
…ents. Second Advent Return of Christ Prophecy Day of the Lord Christian hope Watchfulness Kingdom
View recommendation →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…nalism existed before Darby: distinctions among biblical economies, an earthly millennial kingdom, Israel's future restoration, and forms of a translation of saints separated from final judgement. Earlier writers did not assemble those elements into Darby's complete scheme, and i…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…only the Church, and national restoration become only individual conversion? Or does the coming of Christ guarantee the promises in all the fullness God intended? The answer must come from the texts themselves. A literal reading does not mean woodenly ignoring symbols, poetry, t…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…sciples point to its buildings; Jesus foretells their destruction; and they ask about His coming and the end of the age (Matthew 24:1-3). His answer soon narrows to a particular land and crisis: "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the p…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…administrative convenience. Together they represented the covenant nation. Even after the kingdom 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…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…another. The point is different. A politician may be your best available option without becoming your moral authority. A party may deserve your vote on balance without deserving your silence when it does wrong. Support is not absolution, and a ballot is not a vow of undivided loy…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…cy The Old Testament repeatedly promises Israel preservation, regathering, cleansing, the kingdom of David's Son, and a restored relationship with God. A strong supersessionist response does not simply deny those passages. It argues that the New Testament teaches us how they were…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
What Restrains the Lawless One? Rome, Israel, and a Working Theory While researching The Kingdom Still to Come, my premillennial sequel to my rapture book, I have been revisiting Paul’s account of the restrainer in 2 Thessalonians 2. Something holds back the revelation of the fi…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…om for the Bride's preparation in heaven. Pretribulationism does not invent two unrelated comings. It distinguishes stages within the one future coming of Christ because the texts describe different directions, purposes, audiences, and results. Daniel's unfinished programme has a…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…the rock, rain upon the land, cleansing, fruitfulness and the prophetic streams of God's coming kingdom. The later Jewish record describes water being drawn and poured at the altar during the feast. Whether every detail of that later description was already fixed in precisely th…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…:3 announces a highway for YHWH through the wilderness. The picture is of the divine King coming to His people, with the landscape transformed for His arrival. Verse 5 promises the revelation of His glory; verses 9–11 announce His coming as ruler and shepherd. The consolation is…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…ighteousness. To seal up the vision and prophecy. To anoint the most Holy. Christ's first coming is indispensable to their fulfilment. The cross made the only sufficient atonement for iniquity. Nothing in a futurist reading suggests that His sacrifice was incomplete or that a lat…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…ting around the beginning of the third century, says that believers remaining at Christ's coming, together with the resurrected dead in Christ, will be "caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air". He describes what Christ prepared for His people as "this ascension into…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…the promises made to the fathers Romans gives us an inspired explanation of how Christ's coming relates to Israel's promises: "Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: And that the Gentile…
Read article →What Christ’s promise establishes—and what claims about infallible teaching still need to prove
…ate reading must also consider the next verse: “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” — Matthew 16:19 These are substantia…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…n to a pretribulation rapture. Jesus describes Great Tribulation, cosmic disturbance, His coming in the clouds, and a gathering of the elect. The sequence appears plain: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her li…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…an of sin appear before our gathering? Paul writes: "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him... Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…The same covenantal faithfulness which sent Israel into exile prevented that exile from becoming annihilation. God declared that even in the land of their enemies He would not cast them away "to destroy them utterly" or break His covenant (Leviticus 26:44-45). Jeremiah announced…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…h the nation He had redeemed from Egypt. Israel was called to obey His voice and become a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Exodus 19:3-8). The covenant set before them blessing for obedience and curses for rebellion. This covenant was plainly conditional in its administratio…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…ech moves directly from death to “going to heaven” and leaves resurrection, judgment, the kingdom, and the new creation in the background. The earth becomes a sinking ship whose only theological function is to be abandoned. Work, art, family, social responsibility, and care for t…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…khba revolt was crushed in AD 135. The Church was spreading through the Roman world and becoming overwhelmingly Gentile. Christians and Jewish communities increasingly defined themselves over against one another. From the perspective of an early Gentile Christian, the visible evi…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…history, and makes AD 70 exhaust a prophecy whose narrated conclusion reaches the visible coming of Christ. The article’s governing problem is selective compression. Passages are collapsed into a single event when distinction would support premillennialism, while their historical…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…ioned upon covenant obedience. Gentiles are incorporated into the people of God without becoming Jewish proselytes. The Mosaic covenant and its Levitical order have become obsolete. No nation, including modern Israel, is excused when it acts unjustly. Above all, salvation has alw…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…is series has examined covenants, prophecies, apostles, thrones, tribes, branches, seeds, kingdoms, and the difficult words upon which the debate turns. We have tried to hear the strongest opposing arguments, concede what they genuinely establish, and refuse conclusions which ext…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…hout requiring its natural features to be reduced one after another? Mark begins with the coming of the Lord The case does not begin only in John's Gospel. Mark opens by joining the promise of a messenger with Isaiah's announcement that the LORD Himself is coming: "Behold, I send…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…h sound doctrine and refute error (Titus 1:9). Elders are to shepherd the flock without becoming lords over it (1 Peter 5:2–3). Paul warned the Ephesian elders that men could arise from among their own number and speak perverse things (Acts 20:28–31). Even an apostle—or an angel…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…odied existence: the soul released from the body, leaving the physical world behind and becoming something more like a ghost than a human being. Christians do have a real hope beyond death before the resurrection. Paul desired to depart and be with Christ, which he said was "far…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…rehensive theories of textual corruption, with the eleventh-century polemicist Ibn Hazm becoming an especially forceful defender of corruption in the biblical text itself. Earlier Muslim views were not uniform. We should neither pretend that textual corruption was wholly invented…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…en He first sent the Twelve, He told them to go to those lost sheep and announce that the kingdom of heaven was at hand (Matthew 10:5-7). That priority was covenantal, not racial favouritism. Israel had received the covenants, promises, temple service, and messianic hope. The Kin…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…h of God's witnesses, worship the beast, receive deception, and become the objects of the coming test and judgement (Revelation 3:10; 6:10; 8:13; 11:10; 13:8, 12, 14; 17:2, 8). The phrase describes more than geographical location. Faithful saints also stand physically upon the ea…
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