Part 2 of 3: “The Second Coming (Parousia) Begins with the Rapture” Part 3 of 3: “The Day of the Lord Begins with the Rapture” Addendum to the three-part series: “Does the ‘Day of Christ’ and the ‘Day of the Lord’ Refer to the Same Event?” This is Part 1 of 3 The Co-reference […]
Biblical Studies
Does the ‘Day of Christ’ and the ‘Day of the Lord’ Refer to the Same Event?
Pretrib interpreters maintain there is a difference in meaning between the terms the day of the Lord and the day of Christ. The term the day of Christ (Phil 1:6, 10; 2:16) has been thought to refer to the rapture and not God’s wrath, while the day of the Lord is believed to refer to […]
Did the Flood Begin THE DAY Noah Entered the Ark or SEVEN DAYS Later?
Traditional pretribulationism, along with prewrath, have consistently believed that the rapture and the beginning of the day of the Lord’s wrath will occur back-to-back. The day the rapture happens is the same day that the day of the Lord begins. (To be sure, pretribulationalism locates the rapture before the seven year period begins, while prewrath […]
Advances in Textual Criticism in the Book of Revelation (Video)
Last month I attended the lecture of Dr. Juan Hernández Jr. at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a professor of biblical studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He delivered a lecture titled “Recovering Revelation’s Forgotten Textual History: Josef Schmid’s Magnum Opus for the Twenty-First Century.” In the last few years there have been […]
Sequence of Second Coming Events and the Passover (Video)
The Passover King: Exploring the Prophetic Connection Between Passover, the End Times, and the Return of Jesus Travis M. Snow is the President and Founder of Voice of Messiah. Get it at Amazon Few people are aware that the original Passover story is the key to understanding the end times and the […]
The Second Coming Does Not Begin with Armageddon
It is a deep-seated assumption among many pretrib and posttrib interpreters that the Second Coming begins with the battle of Armageddon. For example, they identify Matt 24:30–31 as the same setting as Rev 19:11–21. But this is not correct. Three events associated with the Second Coming will occur before the battle of Armageddon: (1) the […]
God’s Kingdom Occurs BEFORE Armageddon
Here are previous installments in the four-part article series, The Second Coming Does Not Begin with Armageddon: Part 1: “Matthew 24:30–31 Is Not Describing the Battle of Armageddon in Revelation 19:11–21″ Part 2: “The Day of the Lord’s Wrath Begins Before Armageddon” Part 3: “The Resurrection Occurs Before Armageddon” Today, I am posting Part 4 […]
The Resurrection Occurs BEFORE Armageddon
Here are previous installments in the four-part article series, The Second Coming Does Not Begin with Armageddon: Part 1: “Matthew 24:30–31 Is Not Describing the Battle of Armageddon in Revelation 19:11–21.” Part 2: “The Day of the Lord’s Wrath Begins Before Armageddon” Today, I am posting Part 3 below: The Resurrection Occurs Before Armageddon […]
The Day of the Lord’s Wrath Begins BEFORE Armageddon
Here is the previous installment in the article series, The Second Coming Does Not Begin with Armageddon: Part 1: “Matthew 24:30–31 Is Not Describing the Battle of Armageddon in Revelation 19:11–21.” Today, I am posting Part 2 below: The Day of the Lord’s Wrath Begins Before Armageddon Recently, I wrote an article entitled, “Matthew […]
‘Come FOR His Saints . . . Come WITH His Saints’
‘Come for His Saints . . . Come with His Saints’ While posttribulationism wrongly believes that the rapture and the second coming denote the same event, pretribulationism commits the opposite error by separating the events. Pretribulationism claims that the rapture occurs before Daniel’s seventieth week begins, i.e. the seven-year period, while the second coming occurs […]
Matthew 24:30–31 Is NOT Describing the Battle of Armageddon in Revelation 19:11–21
[Today, I am starting a four-part article series, The Second Coming Does Not Begin with Armageddon. This is Part 1.] The battle of Armageddon is not the event that begins the second coming (the parousia). It is a deep-seated assumption among many pretrib and posttrib interpreters that Matt 24:30–31 is a parallel passage to […]