There are similarities between Ezekiel and John’s descriptions of the new city. However, many interpreters believe they conflict on the issue of the measurements of the size of the new city. Janet Willis has shown with clarity in her What On Earth Is Heaven Like? A Look at God’s City: New Jerusalem that interpreters have […]
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The Awestruck Appearing of Jesus and the Day of the Lord – Ep. 148
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/The_Awestruck_Appearing_of_Jesus_and_the_Day_of_the_Lord_-_Charles_Cooper_-_Ep._148.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedFellowship Bible Chapel in Sunbury, Ohio kicked off its 2019 Fall Prophecy Conference in Session 1 with Charles Cooper and his magnificent teaching (or shall I say preaching!) on the glorious appearing of Jesus and the Day of the Lord.
Video Sessions of the 2019 FBC Fall Bible Prophecy Conference
Fellowship Bible Chapel in Sunbury, Ohio kicked off its 2019 Fall Prophecy Conference in Session 1 with Charles Cooper and his introduction to the Day of the Lord in the Book of Revelation. In Session 2, Kurschner addresses the timing and placement of the rapture in relation to the Antichrist’s great tribulation. In Session 3, […]
Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement (Video)
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins tonight at sunset. Find out why it is considered the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, and how it points to the atoning sacrifice of Yeshua!
Are the 144,000 Israelites ‘Saved’ in Revelation 7?
I view the 144,000 Israelites in Rev 7:4–8 as sealed in the sense of God choosing them to be saved when the end of the seven-year period is completed, fulfilling Daniel’s 70 week prophecy of the nation of Israel when they recognize Jesus as Messiah. They are also sealed in the sense of protection from the impending […]
The Background to the Sealing of the 144,000: Ezekiel 9 and Exodus 12
The 144,000 faithful Israelites in Revelation 7:1–8 are protected on earth with a seal of God from the impending wrath that will be poured out on the world through the trumpet and bowl judgments when the seventh seal is opened. The likely thematic background for this sealing from impending divine wrath is found in Ezekiel […]
The Noahic, Lot, and Thief Illustrations CONTRADICT Pretribulationism
“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage—right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, just […]
A Reply to Jeff Durbin’s Mishandling the ‘Left Behind’ Passage
In this video at the time stamp 55:00, preterist Jeff Durbin mishandles the context of the “Left Behind” passage in Jesus’s Olivet Discourse. He claims that it is the righteous who are left behind and the wicked taken to judgment. He has it completely backwards as the context will clearly show. (Incidentally, I don’t suspect […]
A Proposed Itinerary of WHERE Jesus Will Be AFTER the Rapture
I have been asked many times concerning the location of Jesus’s activities after the rapture. It is a common question in prewrath discussions. Robert Van Kampen’s The Sign has a helpful explication of this period. To be sure, in the last 30 years since its publication prewrath has refined this topic. Let me comment on […]
Why Premillennial Theology Matters – Ep. 140
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Why_Premillennial_Theology_Matters_-_Ep._140.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedWhy premillennial theology matters is an issue that every student of biblical prophecy needs to be aware of. Premillennialism teaches that at Jesus’s second coming he will deliver the righteous and judge the ungodly. Then the righteous will enter into a period—the millennium—of peace and righteousness where […]
Does God Work With Israel and the Church During the ‘Gap’ but Not During the Seventy Weeks of Daniel? – Ep. 138
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Does_God_Work_With_Israel_and_the_Church_During_the_Gap__-_Ep_138.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI addressed a pretrib objection to my arguments describing how God will work with Israel and the church simultaneously in the future during part of the seventieth week. A few traditional dispensational pretribbers such as Renald Showers have recognized the weight of the counterexamples that demonstrate that […]