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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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