For this is what the sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments–sword, famine, wild animals, and plague–to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals! (Ezek 14:21 NET) Yesterday, on Jimmy DeYoung’s radio show, Prophecy Today, he had pretribulationist Renald Showers on his show for about five […]
Book of Revelation
What’s So Important About Pre-Millennialism?
“WHAT’S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT PRE-MILLENNIALISM?” Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. President-Emeritus Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary One of the most common misconceptions in Biblical interpretation today is that “the thousand years” (hence: the “millennium”), of which John speaks in Revelation 20:1-7, are mentioned nowhere else in the Scripture. And since it is generally agreed that no major […]
Do the Twenty Four Elders in Revelation 4:4 “Represent” the Church?
In a circle around the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on those thrones were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white clothing and had golden crowns on their heads. (Rev 4:4 NET) In the fourth chapter of Revelation, we are introduced to a magnificent scene in the throne room of heaven. John witnesses […]
Mystery Babylon – Jerusalem
Chris White produced a helpful eight-part series on Mystery Babylon (Revelation 17–18). Click Here to watch them.
The Word “Church” in the Book of Revelation
Pretribulationism maintains that since the actual word “church” (ekklēsia) does not appear in chapters 4–21, but is mentioned many times before chapter 4, it is assumed then that the church will be raptured before the events of chapter 4. This is very bad argumentation that is made in popular books, but rejected even by scholarly […]
The Day of the Lord is Not a Literal 24 Hour Day
There are some who maintain that the Day of the Lord will be a literal twenty-four hour day, mostly those holding to a variant of posttribulationism, as well as amillennialism. They require that all the events associated with God’s eschatological wrath must occur within a single day when Christ comes back. This forced “accordion” interpretation […]
Premillennialism on Revelation 20:1–6
[See also www.alankurschner.com/3 ] Inevitably, when the discussion of premill versus amill is broached, the text “Revelation 20:1-6” is invoked. This is unfortunate because that is not where the passage begins, so the amill proponent (and sadly the premill can do this as well) dives right in the middle of the context. The immediate passage […]
The Fourth Seal of Revelation
“(7) Then when the Lamb opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come!” (8) So I looked and here came a pale green horse! The name of the one who rode it was Death, and Hades followed right behind. They were given authority over a fourth of the […]