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Clear searchThe positive argument of the whole series, brought together
Why the Cumulative Case Points to a Pretribulation Rapture The positive argument of the whole series, brought together The case for a pretribulation rapture should not rest upon one disputed word, o…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…to make a prophetic chart work. That criticism begins at the wrong end of the Bible. The case does not start by counting backwards from Revelation. It starts with a measured programme in Daniel concerning Israel and Jerusalem. Jesus takes Daniel's abomination of desolation and p…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…ibulationism The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day A cumulative case should be exposed to the passages which appear least friendly to it. Four objections deserve particular attention: Second Thessalonians 2 appears to place Antichrist before o…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…way" (apostasia) as a physical departure, the rapture. That proposal should not carry the case. The word normally denotes defection or rebellion. Pretribulationism does not need to force a spatial meaning into it. The chapter's restrainer is more relevant. A present restraining p…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…t are removed beforehand. Therefore no single type can settle the rapture's timing. Their cumulative force is moral rather than mechanical. God knows how to distinguish His own. He may secure them within danger or take them out of it. Prior removal is not foreign to His character…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…ted as interchangeable names for the Church. Fulfilment does not require cancellation The case against supersessionism is sometimes framed badly: "Israel received earthly promises, whereas the Church receives spiritual promises." Scripture is richer than that division. Israel's c…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…heavenly vision. Treating it as a direct fulfilment of 1 Thessalonians 4 would weaken the case. Its literary placement still matters: after promises and warnings to the churches, the viewpoint moves to heaven before the global hour is opened. Saints are present—but are they calle…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…s article treats the passage as a textual investigation. No single clue carries the whole case. The question is whether the clues converge. The minimum claim defended here is this: within Matthew 24, "the elect" most naturally identifies the faithful people of the Tribulation wit…
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