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Clear searchDivine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…ich delivered us from the wrath to come" (1 Thessalonians 1:10). Romans 5:9 grounds final deliverance from wrath in Christ's blood. Together the passages establish a consistent truth: wrath is not the Church's appointment because Christ has borne its judgement. This does not yet…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…g Daniel's people, Jerusalem, the nations, and the coming kingdom. The Church is promised deliverance from the appointed hour Paul says that believers wait for God's Son from heaven, who "delivered us from the wrath to come" (1 Thessalonians 1:10). He later writes, "God hath not…
Read article →C. I. Scofield · Pastoral sermons · 1915
Nine connected studies of the Christian life, moving through the inner and imparted life, deliverance, the Spirit-controlled and joyous life, true consecration, and the believer's continuing need for cleansing.
View recommendation →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…rance. The surrounding argument corroborates His declarations by creation, prediction and deliverance. Isaiah 44:8’s denial of another Rock is confirmed by the chapter’s exposure of idols; it is not introduced as the delusion of a limited ruler. A later writer may reject Isaiah’s…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…nsformation and catching up of the living, heavenly ascent, every form of pre-Tribulation deliverance, and every interval between translation and public descent? The evidence also says no. History should be stated proportionately. It cannot prove pretribulationism, but it can dis…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…se it repeatedly? Abraham invokes Yahweh, speaks to Yahweh and calls the place of Isaac’s deliverance YHWH-jireh. Is this evidence that one source knew the name while another believed it was first revealed to Moses? The answer is found within Exodus’s own use of the verb “to know…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…does the word coming require resurrection, judgement, reward, marriage, warfare, national deliverance, and kingdom enthronement to occur in one instant. The distinction is not fundamentally between a secret coming and a visible one. First Thessalonians includes a shout, an archan…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…he aftermath of the story is deeply sobering. This prevents a shallow prosperity reading. Deliverance from divine wrath does not mean freedom from hardship, moral conflict, or painful consequences. The distinction becomes explicit when the angels urge Lot to escape. As he delays,…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…ilment in which the language reaches its fullest significance. The first horizon concerns deliverance in Ahaz's generation; the final horizon concerns the arrival of Immanuel in a unique sense. How Matthew uses fulfilment Matthew often presents Jesus as bringing Israel's Scriptur…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…re not expressions of a merely political nationalism. They include forgiveness, holiness, deliverance, and faithful service before God. Israel's true hope was always spiritual as well as national. Jesus later promised the Twelve that in "the regeneration" they would sit upon twel…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…ulness optional. It does make Christ's work, rather than our ranking, the ground of final deliverance. The event did not begin with Darby The distinction between the rapture and its timing also corrects a frequent historical overstatement. Around the beginning of the third centur…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…l novelty, and superiority. Escape language also requires correction. The blessed hope is deliverance by the returning Christ, not salvation from creaturehood. Even those who expect the church to be caught up before the tribulation confess bodily resurrection and everlasting embo…
Read article →Faith, assurance, and the unseen reality of God
…chapter makes this especially clear through the people who suffer. Alongside accounts of deliverance, we find people who endure persecution, deprivation, and death. They too are commended for faith. Some die still awaiting fulfilment. Their suffering does not mean their faith ha…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…’s people and holy city, while the prophets repeatedly join Israel’s distress to national deliverance, cleansing and restoration. Once those non-essential claims have been removed, however, Hanegraaff has not answered the central case. He requires pretribulationism to appear comp…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…hich every object carries a secret meaning. Scripture itself, however, interprets Isaac's deliverance through death and resurrection, identifies Christ as the promised Seed and presents Jesus as God's unique beloved Son and sacrificial Lamb. The cumulative pattern is extraordinar…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…id not remain a feeling; it resulted in action. The word salvation can describe rescue or deliverance. Here godly sorrow brought a saving result: the Corinthians did not remain hardened, defensive, and trapped in sin. They turned, acted, and were brought back into healthy fellows…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…is between hidden revelation and a supposedly silent event. They are not the same thing. Deliverance before judgement is a biblical pattern Pretribulationism does not depend upon typology, but Scripture repeatedly shows that God knows how to distinguish His people when judgement…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…n God’s redemptive purpose. The historic Christian hope is not escape from matter but its deliverance from corruption under the reign of Christ. I cannot accept the claim that my hope in that concrete consummation makes me less catholic than those who spiritualised it. Not a Chur…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…ical interpretation of Jubilee. Written before Christianity, it looks towards a climactic deliverance involving liberty, atonement, judgement upon evil and an exalted Melchizedek. It refers to an anointed herald associated with Daniel’s words. 11QMelchizedek does not say that Dan…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…forcing every aspect of Romans 8's promised liberty into the Millennium alone. Creation's deliverance is displayed in the reign of Christ and reaches its complete consummation in the new heaven and new earth, where the curse is gone (Revelation 22:3). The Millennium is the earth'…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…be fully free to love God and one another without distortion. Creation will share in the deliverance Paul places bodily redemption within a larger renewal: "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the childr…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…lways speak that way. He addresses actual kings, actual invasions, actual sins and actual deliverances. Yet, within those same prophetic settings, his language can open onto a horizon that the immediate circumstances do not exhaust. A faithful reading must therefore ask a further…
Read article →The brothers of Jesus, the sons of Mary, and an argument of strong plausibility
…proceeds in parallel: Waters, mire and sinking in verses 1–3 correspond to the prayer for deliverance from waters, mire and sinking in verses 14–15. Enemies who hate without cause in verse 4 correspond to the plea for deliverance from those who hate him in verse 14. “Thou knowest…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…s established. Moses delivered God's people from bondage; Christ accomplishes the greater deliverance from sin. Moses mediated the old covenant; Christ mediates the new. Moses gave the Passover pattern; Christ is "our passover" sacrificed for us (1 Corinthians 5:7). Moses was fai…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…multaneously. The gathering before the tribulation and Israel’s repentance at the closing deliverance leave a process between them. Gentiles are also saved during that period, as Revelation’s multitude from the nations demonstrates. Revelation 7:9–14. Allowing temple preparation…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…taking vengeance upon the disobedient. Brown therefore concludes that the Church receives deliverance at Christ’s public return, not in a prior rapture. This is a serious argument. It deserves something better than an appeal to a disputed Greek meaning, an ingenious rearrangement…
Read article →Trusting God when voices seek to weaken our confidence
…ing be turned into guarantees that Christians will escape every earthly loss. Jerusalem’s deliverance in this account does not mean that every believer will be spared suffering. Our confidence rests in God’s faithfulness to what he has actually promised. Such confidence can coexi…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…The churches are the explicit earthly audience of chapters 1-3. Philadelphia is promised deliverance from the global earth-dweller hour. The judgement visions return to Danielic and Israelite subjects. Saints remain on earth, but the text does not call them the Church. Earth-dwe…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…e prophetic complex: Daniel's abomination, a unique Tribulation, divine intervention, and deliverance. In Daniel, "thy people" means Daniel's people, Israel. Matthew gives no notice that the controlling prophetic subject has changed when he later speaks of the elect. This does no…
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