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7 results for “Second Advent”
Clear searchE. W. Bullinger · Sermons · 1892
I recommend these sermons because Bullinger treats the Second Advent as a great biblical theme rather than an isolated prophetic curiosity. He ranges across the Law, Prophets, Psalms, Gospels, Epistles, and Revelation, drawing attention to the s…
View recommendation →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…preparation, marriage, and public descent into one undifferentiated instant. Is this two second comings? The objection is sometimes restated rhetorically: if Christ gathers the Church and later descends in judgement, pretribulationism has invented two second comings. That misdes…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…atural synthesis distinguishes accomplishment from completed application. Messiah's first advent accomplished reconciliation and secured righteousness. The final phase brings the addressed people and city through judgement and repentance into the public enjoyment of what His fini…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…tural 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 Himself. Later revelation adds detail and may distinguish p…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…ns “the rest of the dead” who face final judgement. It is not a delayed resurrection of a second company of believers. John 5 guarantees that Christ will summon every grave and assign every person to the proper resurrection destiny. It does not say that every company rises on the…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…al sequence. Vern Poythress, for example, understands the sixth seal as reaching Christ’s second coming, with subsequent cycles returning to overlapping periods and presenting them from different perspectives. On that reading, later earthly scenes need not occur after the event d…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…also requires surviving believers in mortal bodies. If every believer alive at the public advent is transformed and caught up at that same instant, while unbelievers are removed in judgement, who remains in natural bodies to enter and populate the kingdom? An interval between the…
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