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 […]
Book of Revelation
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 […]
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.
Still waiting for a Posttribber to Respond to Prewrath Eschatology . . . Crickets
Every so often I post my list of responses to posttribulation theology. So below is the link to my compendium of responses. While prewrath shares some affinity with posttrib there are significant differences. For example: 1. Prewrath does not believe that the second coming will be an instantaneous or single-day (simple) event. Rather, it will […]
The Greek Word Apantēsis (Meeting) Does Not Mean ‘an Immediate Escort’ Back to Earth: A Response to Posttribulationism
“Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet [apantēsis] the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.” (1 Thess 4:17) Recently, Michael Brown interacted with Mark Hitchcock on posttrib vs. pretrib. I thought Brown did well […]