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Clear searchSigns, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…Testament repeatedly directs believers 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 Chri…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…hrist's return, resurrection, transformation, and catching up as parts of the same future hope. Nor is pretribulationism a condition of salvation. Christians who confess the bodily resurrection and return of Christ may disagree over the sequence while belonging to the same Lord.…
Read article →John Bunyan · Christian allegory · 1678
…tions. Bunyan makes conviction, temptation, discouragement, fellowship, perseverance, and hope into places and people that stay in the mind. It rewards rereading because different stages of Christian's journey become more recognisable as our own pilgrimage continues. Read it as a…
View recommendation →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…nction that the Church appears detached from Israel's Scriptures, Messiah, covenants, and hope. The biblical answer requires both unity and distinction, each defined by the texts which teach it. The Church is one new man in Christ Gentiles were once "aliens from the commonwealth…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…pears in glory. "Meet the Lord in the air" is entirely compatible with the pretribulation hope. The noun apantēsis does not carry enough chronological freight to overturn it. References for further review Matthew 25:1-13 John 14:1-3 Acts 28:15-16 1 Corinthians 15:50-54 1 Thessalo…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…he public arrival of the Son of man. Its gathering naturally fulfils Israel's regathering hope. It never describes the dead in Christ rising or living believers being changed and caught up. Nor do "one taken and one left" provide an alternative rapture account. Luke locates those…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…rs for desiring it; He commanded watchfulness and prayer in relation to it. The Christian hope is not a desire to avoid faithfulness. Believers should be prepared to suffer, serve, lose possessions, and die rather than deny Christ. The pretribulation claim is not that the Church…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…hem to bear witness to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:7-8). Worldwide mission and Israel's hope are not enemies. Acts begins with both held together: the nations must hear the risen Messiah, while the times of Israel's restoration remain in the Father's authority. The question thi…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…hians 1:20). The Church also shares blessings once associated with Israel's covenants and hope. Gentile believers who were "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise" have been "made nigh by the blood of Christ" (Ephesians 2:12-13). In on…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…th-dweller" is a moral and eschatological identity: those whose allegiance, security, and hope belong to the rebellious world-order. The book deliberately sets another company over against them. Worship rises in heaven. The souls of martyrs appeal from heaven. An innumerable rede…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…ngdom divided and the northern tribes were scattered, Scripture continued to preserve the hope of all Israel. The prophets anticipated Judah and Israel being gathered under one King: "And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…, the abomination, or a numbered sequence of judgements. Believers look for "that blessed hope" (Titus 2:13). Their citizenship is in heaven, "from whence also we look for the Saviour" (Philippians 3:20). James says the coming of the Lord draws near and the Judge stands before th…
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