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Clear searchThe man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
Four Difficult Texts for Pretribulationism The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day A cumulative case should be exposed to the passages which appear least friendly to it. Four objections deserve particular attention: Second Thessalonians…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…event invented by dispensationalists. That framing confuses two different questions. The first is whether Scripture teaches that living believers will be caught up to Christ when the dead in Christ are raised. The second is when that event occurs in relation to the Tribulation a…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…ting righteousness. To seal up the vision and prophecy. To anoint the most Holy. Christ's first coming is indispensable to their fulfilment. The cross made the only sufficient atonement for iniquity. Nothing in a futurist reading suggests that His sacrifice was incomplete or that…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…led system identical to modern dispensational pretribulationism? No. Did Darby invent the resurrection of dead believers, the transformation and catching up of the living, heavenly ascent, every form of pre-Tribulation deliverance, and every interval between translation and publi…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." —1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 T…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…tthew's gathering from the four winds. Paul's rapture passage gives a different emphasis. First Thessalonians 4 identifies "the dead in Christ" and believers who "are alive and remain". The dead rise, the living are caught up, and both meet the Lord in the air. Matthew 24:31 does…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…class members of God's household. Every sinner is reconciled to God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The question is whether this unity in salvation removes the distinctions which Scripture continues to make between Israel, the Gentiles, and the Church. That qu…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…e the world and angels (1 Corinthians 6:2-3). Revelation describes those who share in the first resurrection as priests of God and of Christ who "shall reign with him a thousand years" (Revelation 20:6). Jesus' parables connect faithfulness in present stewardship with responsibil…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…national Israel. Paul asks the decisive question Romans 9-11 was written after the cross, resurrection, ascension, and formation of the Church. If those events meant that Israel had ceased to possess a distinct identity in God's purpose, Paul had the ideal opportunity to say so.…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…thered after the Tribulation, the passage appears to place the rapture there as well. The first premise is possible. It is not yet proven. "Elect" can describe the Church, but it is not an exclusive technical title for the Church. The meaning intended here must be established fro…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…s immediate mission with "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 15:24). When He first sent the Twelve, their commission had the same national focus: "Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep o…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…ct Christ Himself The New Testament repeatedly directs believers towards the Saviour, not first towards Antichrist, a covenant, a rebuilt temple, the abomination, or a numbered sequence of judgements. Believers look for "that blessed hope" (Titus 2:13). Their citizenship is in he…
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