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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: Se…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…ns 2:3-8). Revelation resumes Daniel's measured half-week through forty-two months, 1,260 days, and "a time, and times, and half a time". It returns to Israel's tribes, Jerusalem, the temple, the nations, a beastly ruler, and persecuted saints. The Church is not removed from this…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…s of Zion must reckon with the holiness of the God who has arisen. Who can dwell with everlasting burnings? “The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burn…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…1:28-29). The phrase does not excuse unbelief. It explains why unbelief will not have the last word. God acts for His own name's sake The prophets make the ground of restoration unmistakable. Israel is not gathered because it has accumulated merit during exile. God restores the n…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…nduced states, delusions and false memories can carry a profound sense of certainty. Long-lasting moral change may show how powerfully an event affected someone, but it cannot by itself authenticate the event's theology. The careful conclusion lies between dismissal and surrender…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…lation returns to Daniel's imagery and repeatedly uses periods of forty-two months, 1,260 days, and "a time, and times, and half a time". The question is whether these are disconnected crises or the developing parts of one prophetic structure. If the correlations hold, the New Te…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…tau, Commentary on the Apocalypse The Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4 Pseudo-Ephraem, On the Last Times, the Antichrist, and the End of the World Morgan Edwards, Two Academical Exercises on Subjects Bearing the Following Titles; Millennium, Last-Novelties (1744; published 1788) Fran…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
Did Israel Invent Yahweh? El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai Yesterday I found myself discussing claims about the origins of Israel’s God with my son. He seemed to regard the essential theory as accepted among scholars. He had also discussed it with his pri…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…he saving purpose of God. Jesus learned obedience through suffering Hebrews describes the days of His flesh: “Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard i…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…ins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures" (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). The language of receiving and delivering indicates transmitted tradition. Paul did not invent this proclamation while composing the l…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…national purpose into a reward for uninterrupted perfection. God called the covenant everlasting, identified the line through Isaac, and pledged Himself to accomplish what He had spoken (Genesis 17:7-8, 19; 22:15-18). Paul later insists that the Mosaic law, given centuries after…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…hallenges to the deity of Christ from television shows and documentaries, Muslims, Latter-day Saints, Jehovah’s Witnesses—and, if you have children, they may encounter them too, perhaps even through teachers or classmates. Understanding why Scripture identifies Jesus as the etern…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…was “vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked” and “vexed his righteous soul from day to day” (2 Peter 2:7–8). His choices brought danger and grievous loss. He had to flee his home, and the aftermath of the story is deeply sobering. This prevents a shallow prosperity read…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…ssible gloss is not the whole meaning of a sentence, and the immediate crisis in Isaiah's day does not exhaust the pattern of the surrounding chapters. We need to consider the Hebrew term, the pre-Christian Greek translation, the historical sign to Ahaz, and Matthew's understandi…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…l say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." —Matthew 23:39 Judgement would last until a future welcome. The same Jerusalem which rejected its King is addressed as the Jerusalem which will one day acknowledge Him. The resurrection did not erase the kingdom hope It i…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…o the great river, the river Euphrates." —Genesis 15:18 Genesis 17 calls the covenant everlasting and again joins Abraham's descendants to the land: "And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…eology and organisation developed. Claims that Waldensians generally observed the seventh-day Sabbath often rest on disputed interpretations of names such as Sabbatati and Insabbatati, which may refer to their footwear or rejection of ecclesiastical feast days. Some associated gr…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…ating of Christ’s Body? “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life.” —John 6:47–48 An evangelical watches a confident Roman Catholic presentation of John 6. The argument appears straightforward. Jesus said that unless w…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…, separated socially from Jewish communities, interpreted the destruction of Jerusalem as lasting displacement, and read Israel's Scriptures principally through their fulfilment in Christ and the Church. The resulting history is neither simple nor flattering. Some early Christian…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…briefly numb it. Religion can cover it with activity. None of these can give life. On the last and greatest day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus did not whisper to such people. He stood and cried: "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.” —Isaiah 54:7–8 Isaiah 62 develops the same promise. Zion will no longer bear a name defined by estrangement. God’s s…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…ed objectives culminate in the removal of transgression, reconciliation for iniquity, everlasting righteousness and the fulfilment of prophetic promise (Daniel 9:24). Jeremiah calls the crisis “the time of Jacob’s trouble” but immediately declares that Jacob “shall be saved out o…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him" (Genesis 17:19). After affirming Ishmael's blessing, God repeats the distinction: "But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah sha…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…ncing judgement upon Israel's blind leaders in Matthew 21, He repeated the promise at the Last Supper. After the resurrection He taught the apostles about the kingdom for forty days. When they asked whether He would now restore the kingdom to Israel, He withheld the times and sea…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…he World Giveth The peace Christ gives in a troubled world There are kinds of peace which last only while nothing disturbs them. We feel peaceful because the bills are paid, the medical result was reassuring, the family is well or tomorrow appears predictable. These are real merc…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…The Sabbath does not belong to a school of rabbis. God blessed and sanctified the seventh day (Genesis 2:3), commanded Israel to keep it and grounded it in His own work of creation (Exodus 20:8-11). Yet Jesus does not say merely that He understands the Sabbath better than His opp…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…animates birds made from clay. Young believers flee into a cave and awaken after a sleep lasting centuries. A two-horned ruler travels to the limits of the earth and constructs a metal barrier against Gog and Magog. Mary receives dates and water beside a palm tree. These are not…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…g, and He will execute righteous judgment. By His grace He will grant immortality and everlasting glory to the righteous who persevere in His love. I can confess that faith without reservation. More than that: Irenaeus says that this was the faith of the Church dispersed througho…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…rist, the redemption of the body, the revelation of the sons of God, and the reign of the last Adam over the earth. That reign will be the earth's great Sabbath. The creature and the Creator Romans 1 provides the necessary starting point. The created world reveals the eternal pow…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…nother. More servants were treated in the same way. Finally, the owner sent his son: "But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son." —Matthew 21:37 Instead, the husbandmen recognised the heir and conspired to seize his inheritance. They cast him o…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…al branches. Verse 25 then resumes the main disclosure: Israel's blindness is partial and lasts until the fulness of the Gentiles comes in. That internal address is not a distraction. It prepares the reader morally to receive Paul's conclusion. Gentiles must hear Israel's future…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…would be done: "Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life ... In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." —Genesis 3:17, 19 God cursed the ground. Labour would now meet resistance. Thorns would grow. Provision would involve wea…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…n and ask whether we would accept the same evidence if it harmed our preferred side. That last question is revealing. Would I defend this conduct if the opposing party did it? Would I dismiss this evidence if it incriminated someone I dislike? If the standard changes with the par…
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