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9 results for “Revelation 19”
Clear searchEarth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
Where Is the Church during Revelation's Judgements? Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse The argument that the word church disappears after Revelation 3 is often stated as thou…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…ays that when Christ appears, believers will "appear with him in glory" (Colossians 3:4). Revelation presents the Bride prepared in heaven before heaven opens and Christ rides forth in judgement (Revelation 19:7-14). These are materially different movements. Christ receives His p…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…s that the passages themselves describe. The Bride is in heaven before Christ rides forth Revelation 19 strengthens the distinction. Before heaven opens and Christ rides forth in judgement, the marriage of the Lamb has taken place. His wife has made herself ready and is clothed i…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…f the Tribulation should be defended merely because it came from a pretribulation writer. Revelation does not explicitly call the 144,000 evangelists. Pretribulationism does not require Christians to help build a third temple. Nor should Israel’s final trouble be presented as div…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…ovement takes them, or how this meeting relates chronologically to the warrior 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 d…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…e of Paul's announced mystery is diminished. The more natural relationship is progressive revelation. Jesus reveals Israel's final crisis, public advent, and gathering. Paul later discloses what happens to the body of Christ, including living saints, when Christ gathers it to Him…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…rearrangement of the sentence, or a refusal to accept that Paul is describing the public revelation of Christ. The passage should be allowed to say exactly what it says. It does not, however, say that the Church is gathered at that revelation. Paul is promising the final resolut…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…judgment, from assurance, which rests upon divine renewal. The difficult imagery of verse 19 brings judgment back into view: hail strikes the forest and a city is brought low. The precise identification of forest and city is disputed. The verse should not be made to carry an elab…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…His deity is treated as a corruption of true monotheism (Surahs 3:45-49; 4:171; 5:72-75; 19:30-36). That is the strongest recognisable form of the Islamic claim. It does not deny that Jesus is remarkable. It denies that anything He says or does removes Him from the category of a…
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