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 […]
Old Testament
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 […]
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 […]
Moving the Goalposts on Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy
Today I did an episode demonstrating that God has worked with Israel and the church simultaneously in the past. I described three prophecies that were given to Israel, and about Israel, that have been fulfilled in the past during the church age. The point of this was two-fold: (1) to demonstrate that God does indeed […]
Three Old Covenant Dispensation Prophecies Fulfilled DURING the Church Dispensation – Ep. 135
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A Response to THE MOST COMMON Argument for Pretribulation Dispensationalism (Daniel 9:24–27) – Ep. 134
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/A_Response_to_THE_MOST_COMMON_Argument_for_Pretribulation_Dispensationalism.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedWhere does pretribulationism get the belief that God does not work with Israel and the church at the same time? To answer this question, we must turn to one of the most important and fundamental prophecies recorded in the Bible, which is found in the book of […]
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 […]
Why Charles Ryrie’s Concern about Progressive Dispensationalism Was CORRECT! – Ep. 133
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Why_Charles_Ryries_Concern_about_Progressive_Dispensationalism_Was_CORRECT.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedThe topic today is on the theological system of revised (Ryrie) dispensationlism, which pretribulationists affirm and thus believe that God does not work with Israel and the church at the same time. It maintains a sharp separation between the church and Israel to the point that not […]
Should Israel Be Referred to as ‘Palestine’?
“What’s in a word? Today we welcome Dr. Randall Price to the program to break down an often confusing word that we hear throughout the media, in books, and even in our churches. It’s the word: Palestine. Dr. Price will explain the complexities of the word, its origins, and how we as believers in Jesus […]
A Response to Spiritualized Eschatology on the ‘Cosmic Temple’
This is a helpful, brief series by Paul Martin Henebury responding mostly to Greg Beale’s spiritualized eschatology. The Cosmic Temple and Spiritualized Eschatology (Pt.1) The Cosmic Temple and Spiritualized Eschatology (Pt.2) The Cosmic Temple and Spiritualized Eschatology (Pt. 3) The Cosmic Temple and Spiritualized Eschatology (Pt.4) h.t. Alf Cengia
5 Reasons Why ‘Armageddon’ (Har-magedon) Refers to the Mount of Megiddo
The sixth bowl states, Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and dried up its water to prepare the way for the kings from the east. Then I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of […]