“The biggest hindrance to understanding the message of the Revelation is not its strange imagery, but rather, human sin and the inability to comprehend the nature of God’s holiness.” —From Robert L. Muse’ review of H. Burkhardt’s interpretation of Revelation.
Book of Revelation
THE Apostasy Within the Church Will Come Through the Antichrist’s Mark of the Beast – Ep. 88
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(VIDEO) An Easy Refutation of Pretrib Pastor Joey Wampler on the 24 Elders
I have replied to this common pretrib argument before here and here. Incidentally, pastor Wampler, first, you have to understand that Steven Anderson holds to a warped view of the prewrath rapture. He is not representative of the prewrath position. Second, you said that Steven Anderson has a skewed interpretation of this passage. That is […]
X Marks the Spot? A Critique of the Use of Chiasmus in Macro-Structural Analyses of Revelation
chiasmus |kīˈazməs| noun; a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form. I do not believe that the ancient writers were intending to structure their texts through a chiasmus. It is not a valid hermeneutical category for New Testament studies. […]
Why ‘Heaven’ (Ouranō) in Revelation 12:1 Does NOT Refer to the Starry Sky | Great Sign, Constellation Virgo, September 23rd 2017, the Rapture
“Then a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars.” (Rev 12:1 NET) I do not believe ‘heaven’ (ouranō) in Revelation 12:1 refers to the starry sky; and thereby, I do not think that the […]
“The ‘Church’ IS Found After All in Revelation 4–21!” | The Great Sign of Revelation 12, September 23, 2017
(You can follow my ongoing series critiquing Scott Clarke’s “Great Sign of Revelation 12” theory at this link.) I find it interesting that pretribbers who once exclaimed that since the word ‘church’ was not found between Revelation 4–21 therefore the rapture is pretrib, now are changing their view and seeing the “male child” in Revelation […]
(VIDEO) The BACKSTORY to Scottie Clarke’s FIRST Failed Prediction of the Rapture
(For future reference, you can follow my ongoing series critiquing Scott Clarke’s “Great Sign of Revelation 12” theory at this link.) As a preface I want to say that I am not “attacking” Scottie Clarke personally. He seems like a nice and sincere person. My intention is to refute his theory which I believe is […]
(VIDEO) A Reply to Scott Clarke’s ‘The Great Sign of Revelation 12’ Theory
I want to respond to a few points in a video from Scott Clarke, who evidently introduced the recent “Great Sign Revelation 12” theory (the video is down below). I will be responding to him more in the future on various aspects of his pretribulational Revelation 12 rapture theory. So this is just the first […]
Revelation 12, the Great Sign, the Woman, the Rapture, and September 23rd 2017
I have been asked a number of times what I think about the prophecy of Revelation 12 and the astronomical event this coming September 23rd 2017. Is there prophetic significance to this event? This issue has taken the Bible prophecy world by storm, to say the least. There are a number of factors to examine […]
Greek Grammar Indicates the ‘Beast’ in the Book of Revelation Is a PERSON
There are many good reasons to think that the “beast” in the book of Revelation refers to a person and not a mere symbol (contra idealism and historicism). One of these reasons is found in how Greek grammar works. In Greek, a relative pronoun will agree with its antecedent in gender and number. But its […]
The Myth that Chiliasm (aka Premillennialism) was Condemned in Early Church Councils
Francis X Gumerlock (who is an expert in Patristic commentaries on the book of Revelation) refutes the perpetual myth that Chiliasm was condemned in early church councils; for example at the Council of Constantinople in 381 or the Council of Ephesus in 431. He begins his essay situating this question by talking about how premillennialism […]