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Clear searchThe gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
Does Matthew 24 Place the Rapture after the Tribulation? The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery Matthew 24 contains the most direct Gospel objection to a pretribulation rapture. Jesus describes…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
Is the Pretribulation 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 Institut…
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 as an interval invented to make a prophetic cha…
Read article →The 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 objectio…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
Did Darby Invent the Pretribulation Rapture? What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not The historical objection is often stated in absolute terms: no Christian taught the rapture before John Nelson D…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
Is the Church Appointed to the Tribulation's Wrath? Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape The claim that the Church is not appointed to wrath is sometimes answered too quickly. Christians plain…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…ect of Matthew 24? A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light... And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
Why the Cumulative Case Points to a Pretribulation Rapture The positive argument of the whole series, brought together The case for a pretribulation rapture should not rest upon one disputed word, one prophetic chart, or one pass…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…fully When Abraham learns that judgement is approaching Sodom, he asks one of Scripture's great questions: "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" —Genesis 18:25 His appeal assumes something about God's character. The Lord will not treat the righteous and the wicked as m…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…onians 1, and the public vindication of the saints In his presentation Why I Reject a Pre-tribulation Rapture, Michael Brown identifies 2 Thessalonians 1:5–10 as a decisive passage. Paul is writing to Christians enduring persecution. He promises them rest when the Lord Jesus is r…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…didate because authority can obstruct a rival. An ungodly government can still restrain a greater evil. Romans 13 describes civil authority checking wrongdoing; that principle does not require every ruler to be righteous. Rome’s wickedness would therefore be no decisive objection…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…se testimony lacks a dramatic crisis, whose vocabulary differs, or whose tradition places greater stress on covenant nurture may be treated as obviously unreal. Assurance then rests partly on membership in the group that knows how salvation really works. The result resembles spir…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…towards Christ Himself: "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." —Titus 2:13 "For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ." —Philippians 3:20 The object of exp…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…rest. Peace with God Before peace can settle the heart, there must be peace with God. Our greatest problem is not that life is unpredictable. It is that sin has placed us in rebellion against the God who made us. We cannot obtain lasting peace merely by calming ourselves while re…
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