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Clear searchThe 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 →Why 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 →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
…ogether his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." —Matthew 24:29, 31 Few passages in prophetic Scripture generate more debate than Matthew 24. At the centre of that debate stands an apparently simple question: who are "the elect" whom Christ gathers aft…
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 →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 →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…al and temporary. The gifts and calling of God remain “without repentance” (Romans 11:25–29). The Church is God's eternally purposed people in Christ. Israel's future mercy is also part of God's purpose. Affirming one does not require cancelling the other. The complete case is de…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…ogether his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." —Matthew 24:29, 31 If Christ gathers His elect after the Tribulation, why should anyone place the rapture before it? The objection deserves an answer from the context, not the slogan that Matthew concern…
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 →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…
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