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Clear searchHippolytus · Exposition, prophecy, and polemic · early third century
Hippolytus is especially valuable for readers interested in prophecy. On Christ and Antichrist draws repeatedly from the biblical text and preserves a compelling early discussion of Daniel, the Antichrist, Christ's return, and the future kingdom. His…
View recommendation →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…its sanctuary. That creates a serious question. If Jesus is the Messiah, and if Daniel’s prophecy speaks of the Messiah being cut off before the Second Temple was destroyed, how can the Qur’an preserve His title while denying His death? The argument must be made carefully. Danie…
Read article →E. W. Bullinger · Sermons · 1892
…urn. The sermons combine expectation, careful textual observation, and practical urgency: prophecy is meant to shape hope, watchfulness, and faithful living. Bullinger writes within a distinctive dispensational framework and readers need not accept every sequence, distinction, or…
View recommendation →E. W. Bullinger · Verse-by-verse commentary · 1902
An extensive journey through Revelation which examines its language, literary structures, Old Testament connections, recurring themes, sequence of visions, and place within the wider prophetic testimony of Scripture.
View recommendation →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…lfilled, or is it still future?” That is often a necessary question when reading biblical prophecy. Sometimes, however, it becomes an inadequate question because it assumes that a prophecy must belong entirely to one historical moment. Isaiah does not always speak that way. He ad…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…fore cannot fairly be dismissed as a translation created after the event to manufacture a prophecy. The Greek evidence does not settle every interpretive question. Parthenos itself can occasionally be used more broadly, and a translator's choice is not inspired proof of the later…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…patterns are strongest when they agree with explicit promises and the structure of later prophecy. Abraham and Lot show that removal before wrath is consistent with God's character and His past action. They do not tell us by themselves how long the Tribulation lasts, when the ma…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
How Scripture connects human dominion, the suffering of creation, measure-for-measure judgement, and the earth's coming rest beneath the reign of Christ.
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
A working theory connecting Rome’s restraining authority with the final concentration of power, while considering when temple preparation might begin.
Read article →Eitan Bar · Biblical and historical polemic · 2019
…discussing Yeshua with Jewish people bring valuable context to questions about messianic prophecy, the New Testament, and rabbinic interpretation. The book is most useful when it sends the reader back to the Hebrew Scriptures to ask whether the traditional objection really accou…
View recommendation →The brothers of Jesus, the sons of Mary, and an argument of strong plausibility
Psalm 69 places rejection by ‘my mother’s children’ inside a unified portrait of messianic suffering. Does its fulfilment in Jesus identify His brothers as sons of Mary?
Read article →Tertullian · Apologetic, doctrinal, and practical treatises · c. 197–220
…l demands of Christian discipleship. Read across the range and you encounter apologetics, prophecy, doctrine, courage under persecution, and an uncompromising emphasis on holy living. Tertullian is an early witness, not a final authority. His later association with the New Prophe…
View recommendation →Four popular claims tested in context
…im. If Muhammad was genuinely foretold in the Bible, Christians must face the evidence. A prophecy does not cease to be true because its fulfilment is unwelcome. Muslim apologists commonly appeal to four passages: the prophet like Moses in Deuteronomy 18; the Servant and Kedar in…
Read article →Seth D. Postell, Eitan Bar & Erez Soref · Messianic biblical theology · 2017
A study of how the Torah reaches its goal in Yeshua, addressing how Moses points to Messiah, the purpose of the Law, the place of rabbinic tradition, and the relationship of Jewish and Gentile believers to the Torah's commandments.
View recommendation →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
Israel and the Church: Why This Series Matters The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God Has the Church replaced Israel in the purpose of God? Some Christians answer yes, although they may prefer words such as fulfilled, transformed, or expand…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…tate is not yet the cleansed, believing, peaceful Israel described at the consummation of prophecy. It does force an important question: how should we read the many passages in which God promises to preserve Israel as a nation, gather its scattered people, restore them to the lan…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, AD 70, and Paul’s revealed mystery examined in context.
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…terary challenge. The book also contains statements which Muslims understand as fulfilled prophecy, especially the prediction that the defeated Romans would reverse their fortunes. Its text was memorised, written, collected and transmitted with remarkable stability. Its language…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…ith God, and takes the statement about Isaiah speaking of Him as a reference to messianic prophecy.[^14] This deserves an exact response. The note does not deny the Christological pronouns, and it does not reduce the verse to merely future glory. Its explanation is a heavenly-com…
Read article →Dave Hunt · Devotional theology and biblical exhortation · 2000
…writes urgently and sometimes moves quickly across large and disputed subjects, including prophecy, the Church, self-love, and the Christian's heavenly hope. Read it with an open Bible, checking each passage in context and distinguishing its central call to serious discipleship f…
View recommendation →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…entieth week. Seventy sevens for Daniel's people and city Daniel 9 begins with Jeremiah's prophecy of Jerusalem's seventy years of desolation. Daniel confesses Israel's covenant rebellion and pleads for "thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain" (Daniel 9:16). Gabriel's answer retai…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…son Darby, turns the Church into God's failed contingency plan, ignores the fulfilment of prophecy in AD 70, baptises modern politics, and restores animal sacrifices in competition with the cross. Some dispensationalists have spoken carelessly on these subjects, and not every obj…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…t undertaking made centuries after Sinai. The "better promises" are displayed in the very prophecy Hebrews quotes. God writes His law upon the heart, brings His people into the knowledge of Himself, and remembers their sins no more (Hebrews 8:10-12). The improvement lies in the c…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…rior descent of Revelation 19. Those questions must be answered from the wider context of prophecy. This limitation cuts both ways. The passage alone does not prove a seven-year heavenly interval. It also does not narrate an immediate return to the earth. Any interpreter who supp…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…ess. They gave him the authority to call Israel to its Messiah. Gentile inclusion fulfils prophecy without excluding Israel Acts 15 is rightly central to this discussion. Gentiles were entering the people of God without circumcision or submission to the Mosaic law. James recognis…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…same Lord. The issue matters because it affects the Church's expectation, its reading of prophecy, and its understanding of the coming wrath. It does not determine whether Christ has saved a person. That distinction allows the argument to be both vigorous and charitable. We need…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…or a substitute for doctrinal argument. Imagine a Christian whose faith is assembled from prophecy videos, private impressions, conference speakers, and a succession of teachers who claim to have recovered what nearly everyone else has missed. He speaks often of leaving this worl…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…able mistake was to allow present historical appearance to determine the limits of future prophecy. The same prophets who foretold scattering had also foretold a restoration which depended upon God's power precisely because no ordinary historical process could achieve it. The Rom…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…expect Christ without naming a date; observe the age without forcing every headline into prophecy; test claims from the text rather than the confidence of the speaker; live ready to meet Christ while remaining busy in the work He has assigned. After repeated false predictions, C…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…she will receive a new name from the mouth of the LORD. The geographical character of the prophecy is difficult to miss. Isaiah speaks about Zion, Jerusalem, her land, her walls, her watchmen, her grain, her wine, her gates, and the highway by which the people return. The chapter…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…s two questionable seven-year fulfilments from ancient history, and makes AD 70 exhaust a prophecy whose narrated conclusion reaches the visible coming of Christ. The article’s governing problem is selective compression. Passages are collapsed into a single event when distinction…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…g verses say that peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord in Jerusalem. The prophecy retains recognisable categories: Jews remain Jews, the nations remain nations, and the nations receive blessing through the people with whom God has identified Himself. Christians f…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…h the Father: the Father speaks to the Son at His baptism (Mark 1:11). Yet he has taken a prophecy about preparing the way for the LORD and placed Jesus at its point of arrival. That is not yet a complete doctrine of the Trinity. It is something more basic and disruptive to the c…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…. Before Darby systematised dispensational theology, believers were already reconsidering prophecy and arguing that God retained a future purpose for national Israel. Lewis Way and Alexander McCaul belonged to that earlier prophetic conversation. Their work does not establish pre…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…l enter the kingdom of heaven. Some will appeal to remarkable works performed in His name—prophecy, exorcism and mighty deeds. His answer is terrifying: "And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." —Matthew 7:23 The correspondence…
Read article →Michael J. Vlach · Biblical theology · 2023
…ion. Vlach writes from a premillennial, dispensational framework, so readers who approach prophecy differently will meet conclusions they may wish to test carefully. Read it with the relevant biblical passages open and weigh each part of the case from Scripture. Bodily resurrecti…
View recommendation →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…nsonantal resemblance to the Arabic name Muhammad does not turn a Hebrew love poem into a prophecy. The related word describes precious objects elsewhere in Scripture; sound is not identity. Across all four claims, the same method recurs: remove the original audience; isolate a w…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…restoration. It should neither be ignored nor declared the completed fulfilment of every prophecy. The nation remains largely in unbelief; the promised cleansing, corporate turning to Messiah, outpouring of the Spirit, and righteous reign have not yet occurred. The biblical expe…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…ate rulers while remaining Israel's ultimate King. Israel's tribes remain identifiable in prophecy The tribal language in Matthew 19 is not isolated. Ezekiel's restoration vision joins two divided kingdoms into one nation and later allocates the renewed land by tribes (Ezekiel 37…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…people becoming His people (Romans 9:23-26). Gentile inclusion is a genuine fulfilment of prophecy and Abrahamic promise. But notice how Paul describes them: they are called of the Gentiles. He does not say, "Gentiles are now Israel." They become God's people, receive mercy, and…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…athered to Christ. The argument in its strongest form The Thessalonians were not debating prophecy from the safety of an academic seminar. They were suffering. Paul commends their “patience and faith” in all the persecutions and tribulations they endured (2 Thessalonians 1:4). He…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…he abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet..." —Matthew 24:15 Daniel's prophecy concerns "thy people and... thy holy city" (Daniel 9:24). Its final crisis involves sacrifice, abomination, and desolation (Daniel 9:27). Daniel 12 then describes an unequalled time…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…of twelve establishes The Twelve do not, by themselves, prove an entire system of future prophecy. Their appointment does establish several important facts: Jesus deliberately framed His messianic mission in relation to Israel's twelve-tribe identity. The apostles began as a fai…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…he people refused to heed the trumpet (Jeremiah 6:13–17). Ezekiel compares soothing false prophecy to whitewashing an unsound wall. Fresh paint did not make the structure secure (Ezekiel 13:8–16). A wall is not strengthened by whitewashing its cracks. Public responsibility includ…
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