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21 results for “Daniel”
Clear searchWhy the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
Daniel's Seventieth Week and the New Testament Tribulation Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem The seven-year Tribulation is sometimes dismissed…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
The Daniel Dilemma The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell Islam calls Jesus the Messiah. It also denies that He was crucified. Centuries before Muhammad, however, the book of Daniel describe…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…Together they form a coherent movement: Christ completes and gathers His Church, resumes Daniel's unfinished programme concerning Israel and Jerusalem, judges the beast's world while saving a multitude within it, and later returns with His redeemed people to deliver, judge, and…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…ribulation 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 that the pretribulation rapture has no biblical basis. He present…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…land and crisis: "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place... Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains." —Matthew 24:15-16 The holy place, Judea, the mountains, and the danger of returning…
Read article →Hippolytus · Exposition, prophecy, and polemic · early third century
…st draws repeatedly from the biblical text and preserves 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…
View recommendation →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…other. The complete case is developed in our Israel and the Church series. Criticism 3: “Daniel and Revelation were fulfilled in AD 70” The destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 matters enormously. Jesus foretold the temple's fall, and that judgement stands as a historical vindicati…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…emonstrated, and the similarities must not be denied. The Olivet Discourse is anchored in Daniel and Jerusalem Jesus' teaching begins with the temple. The disciples ask when its destruction will occur and seek the sign of His coming and the end of the age (Matthew 24:1-3). The di…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…s to condemnation. Revelation 20 later distinguishes those destinies by a thousand years. Daniel 12:2 places everlasting life and everlasting contempt within one prophetic horizon without identifying the interval. Later revelation differentiates what an earlier horizon presents t…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…d and concentrated in his hands. Early Christian writers recognised this possibility, and Daniel and Revelation supply a political setting worth examining alongside it. The temple raises a related question of preparation. Antichrist desecrates a sanctuary already in use. Since th…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…The churches dominate the opening chapters. The earthly judgement visions then return to Danielic periods, Israel's tribes, Jerusalem, the temple, the nations, a beastly ruler, and saints persecuted under him. At the same time, redeemed companies worship in heaven, and the book…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…(Acts 5:29). Scripture also tells us where history is going. The kingdoms represented in Daniel are succeeded by a kingdom which God will establish and which "shall never be destroyed" (Daniel 2:44). The Son of man receives an everlasting dominion over all peoples and nations (D…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…ion from Isaiah’s throne-vision chapter should contribute nothing to the glory reference. Daniel Brendsel’s detailed study argues for reading both Isaianic contexts together: the Servant’s glory through rejection receives particular emphasis, while the temple vision remains part…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…It does not mention Israel, Moses or Midian, and yhw may designate a people or territory. Daniel Fleming accepts that the name is probably related to the later Yahweh but argues that it may not originally have been divine at all. His treatment specifically challenges the simple m…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…tionist believes in a rapture after the Tribulation. A midtribulationist places it within Daniel's final week. A pre-wrath interpreter places it after Antichrist's persecution but before the concentrated outpouring of divine wrath. A pretribulationist places it before the final s…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…ted next Suppose Scripture clearly taught that the Church must identify Antichrist, enter Daniel's final week, and see the midpoint abomination before Christ can gather it. Until those events occurred, the rapture could not happen. The Church's immediate expectation would properl…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…at the decisive moment of His trial, Jesus identifies the title's controlling background. Daniel saw: "One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days ... And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations,…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…false. Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up and became painfully conscious of his sin. Daniel lost his strength before the visions he received. John fell at Christ’s feet as dead. At Pentecost, the disciples spoke in languages they had not learned as the Holy Spirit was poured…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…around Him. He claimed authority over the sabbath, forgave sins, identified Himself with Daniel's Son of man, accepted messianic titles, and placed allegiance to Himself at the centre of faithfulness to Israel's God. His Jewish setting makes those claims sharper, not smaller. Hi…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…Qur’an’s miracle claim, alleged prophecies of Muhammad, the covenant line through Isaac, Daniel’s cut-off Messiah and the Qur’an’s relationship to the religious stories of late antiquity. The individual questions matter. But now we must ask what they mean together. A case is not…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…those claims. The passage does not establish that the Church remains on earth throughout Daniel’s final week. It does not say that Antichrist persecutes the Church until the instant of Christ’s revelation. It does not describe resurrection, transformation or catching up. It does…
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