Pop pretribbers are often heard invoking the virtuous platitude, “I’m not looking for the Antichrist, I’m looking for Jesus Christ.” It is intended to convey that pretribs are “truly” watchful for Jesus’s return because they think they will not have to first encounter the Antichrist before the rapture. This cutesy slogan sounds pious and virtuous, […]
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When Did the Church Begin? (Video)
Tony Garland in his helpful video below explains with clarity when the church was established, giving evidence that it was at the pouring out of the Spirit at Pentecost portrayed in Acts 2. He gives sound biblical criteria in determining when this great new event of the church age of God’s redemptive program began. At […]
A Response to the Pretribulationism and Dispensationalism of James C. Morris in Light of His Abuse of the Early Church Fathers
First, I must say, when you write me through the contact page, it is best to give a salutation and signature to your email, otherwise I typically do not even read emails that do not contain these basic and respectful elements to a letter. I receive scores of emails (many that are “drive-byes” with an […]
Irenaeus Taught that the Church Would Face the Antichrist
Source I want to respond to pretribber John Hart’s misrepresentation of Irenaeus, taking a snippet of Irenaeus out of context and making it sound like he is teaching a pretrib rapture. Nothing could be further from the truth for three contextual reasons. First In Hart’s proof text, I noticed that he conveniently omits the very […]
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A Response to Ken Johnson’s Abuse of Reading His Pretribulation Rapture Back into the Early Church Writers (Video)
Gary Stearman of Prophecy Watchers interviewed Ken Johnson on his show this week. The program is an exercise of wishful thinking claiming that the early church writers were “pretribulationists” (see the video below). Anyone with a modicum of knowledge of what the early church writers taught on this issue understands that they taught that the […]
In season and out of season
I went for a stroll this morning in a state park in North Jersey (literally on the NJ/NY border, not too far from where I live). There was nobody there, complete silence, only the birds. I soaked in the invigorating solitude. After the stroll before I drove home, I figured I would go for a country jaunt […]
Why you can’t believe rape is wrong if you don’t believe abortion is wrong (Video) . . .
. . . and you can’t believe abortion is wrong if you don’t have an objective, universal, moral standard (i.e. God’s law).
Why Dispensationalists Are Embracing Prewrath Eschatology . . .
If you are a dispensationalist, then you may be aware of the natural connection that contemporary dispensational theology has with prewrath eschatology. The following two articles by Charles Cooper explains this clearly. If you are not a dispensationalist, it may be because you associate it with traditional dispensationalism and are not familiar of contemporary (or […]
A Message in the Book of Revelation
Many avoid reading the Book of Revelation, not because they do not know what it means, but for the reason they know what it means—the cost of allegiance to Christ even to death.
Pretrib pastor says he ‘would go literally insane’ if it were not for the imminent, pretrib rapture . . . (Video)
Pretrib Pastor J. D. Farag talking with Jan Markell and Amir Tsarfati said, “This is not hyperbole. If it were not for the blessed hope of the soon return of Jesus Christ in the [imminent, pretrib] rapture…I would go literally insane. I would lose my mind. [Amir Tsarfati interjects and says, “I wouldn’t live.”] I […]