According to pretrib logic, Israel is raptured at Rev 7:4. Of course I am being facetious with the title of this post, using absurdity to illustrate absurdity. The mere word Israel (Ἰσραήλ) is not found between Rev 7:4 and 21:12, so according to pretrib logic, if you apply the same standard to the word church, then you need […]
Book of Revelation
God Will Work With Israel and the Church Simultaneously in the FUTURE – Ep. 137
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Virtue Signaling Pretribbers
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, […]
Cohesive Chain of the Celestial Disturbances That Signal the Coming Day of the Lord’s Wrath
Joel 2:30–31 “I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth– blood, fire, and columns of smoke. The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the LORD comes– that great and terrible day!” Isa 13:6–13 “Wail, for the LORD’s day […]
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 […]
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 […]
There are 20 Conflicting Posttrib Interpretations on the Seals, Trumpets, and Bowls!
There are at least 20 different posttrib interpretations on the seals, trumpets, and bowls in Revelation. In the article below, I give only one representative posttrib interpretation in order to explain that they do not view the seals, trumpets, and bowls occurring consecutively. In my exposure to posttrib over the decades I have found that […]
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 […]
Paper Notice: ETS Annual Meeting – San Diego, CA, November 20–22
I was pleased to find out recently that my paper was accepted for the 2019 Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, November 20–22. Here is the title and abstract of the paper. Semantic Boundary Markers in Rev 12:1—15:4 and Structural Implications This paper analyzes Rev 12:1—15:4, which is a neglected section in […]