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Article · RaptureApologetics · Historical study

Did Darby Invent the Pretribulation Rapture?

What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not

…ed to the Lord before a coming tribulation. The right claim is not "Ephraem taught modern dispensationalism." It is that Pseudo-Ephraem supplies genuine early evidence for a concept substantially similar to pre-Tribulation removal. Dismissing the passage solely because the name o…

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Article · Christian DoctrineHistorical investigation · Theological analysis · Biblical theology · Primary-source study

Have Evangelicals Become Neo-Gnostics?

History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity

…ying doctrine differs from Valentinian anthropology. Prophecy becomes a secret-key system Dispensationalism requires special care here. Formally, it is among the least Gnostic eschatologies imaginable. It insists upon a good Creator who acts in history, the bodily resurrection of…

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Article · RaptureBiblical exposition

Daniel's Seventieth Week and the New Testament Tribulation

Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem

…utively. A gap between the sixty-ninth and seventieth is supposedly inserted only because dispensationalism requires one. The text itself creates the chronological problem: "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the pr…

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Article · RaptureBiblical exposition · Apologetics · Historical study

Is the Pretribulation Rapture Without Biblical Basis?

A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation

…of Tim LaHaye and popular Left Behind presentations. Not every claim made within popular dispensationalism is essential to pretribulationism, and not every rhetorical description of the Tribulation should be defended merely because it came from a pretribulation writer. Revelatio…

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Article · Israel and the ChurchBiblical exposition · Theological response · Textual study

No Holy Land? Covenant Discipline, Gentile Blessing, and Israel's Future

A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God

…uld affirm Christ's supremacy. The disagreement concerns what follows from it. Mainstream dispensationalism does not teach multiple ways of salvation. It teaches that salvation in every age rests upon grace, is received through faith, and is objectively grounded in Christ's atoni…

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