Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
When Do Persecuted Christians Receive Rest? Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 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 Christi…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…s enormously. Jesus foretold the temple's fall, and that judgement stands as a historical vindication of His words. Dispensationalists should not minimise it. The question is whether AD 70 exhausts the prophetic language. Daniel's seventieth week is decreed upon Daniel's people a…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…personified as a woman whose condition is about to be reversed. Her righteousness will be publicly revealed. The Gentiles will see her vindication, kings will behold her glory, and she will receive a new name from the mouth of the LORD. The geographical character of the prophecy…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…ruler, when one of them entered the city carrying obsolete money. Their discovery became public evidence for the resurrection of the dead during a time of theological controversy. The legend circulated in several languages. Syriac forms were known before Islam, and the story was…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…ostles' present ministry or the inward renewal of individual believers. It belongs to the public reign of the Son of man and the wider restoration over which He presides. This agrees with the prophets. Isaiah anticipated the earth renewed under righteous judgement, creation at pe…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…ment setting, “this day have I begotten thee” is royal enthronement language. The king is publicly installed as God’s appointed Son and heir, to whom the nations will be given as a possession (Psalm 2:6–9). The decree does not describe the creation of the king’s person. It declar…
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