[Recent Debate on the Rapture Here] The following rapture debate was held on October 9, 1999 at Irving Bible Church, Irving, Texas. About 600 were in attendance. The moderator was Kerby Anderson. My commentary on the debate is below. The following are the four parts of the debate with a rebuttal period after each […]
Posttribulationism
Seals, Trumpets, Bowls – At the Same Time or One After the Other? i.e. Concurrent-Recapitulation or Consecutive-Progressive?
I am writing a book responding to posttribulationism. It will be the first prewrath book that substantively engages the posttribulational view. Even though my book Antichrist Before the Day of the Lord responds to relevant points on posttribulationism, this forthcoming book will be completely devoted to the posttrib interpretation. My hope is that it will […]
NOW POSTED: All Three Interviews on Three Rapture Views
The final interview is posted, which is the pretribulational position. I have linked all three interviews below. Next week, there will be a final post where each of the participants were able to ask each other a question. In the near future, I will be responding to Svigel’s answers. His argument depends much on his […]
A Rapture Dialogue Invitation
Recently, I was invited to participate in a dialogue of Q&A on the rapture and the second coming. The participants were myself representing the prewrath perspective, and Craig Blomberg (Denver Seminary) representing the posttrib perspective, and Michael J. Svigel (Dallas Theological Seminary) representing the pretrib perspective. I will post on this blog each participant’s Q&A when […]
Another Reason to Reject Steven Anderson’s Material: He is a Date-Setter
What part of Matthew 24:36 do date-setters not understand? “But as for that day and hour no one knows it—not even the angels in heaven–except the Father alone.” Recently, I posted why everyone should stay far away from Steven Anderson’s material. Here is another good reason. Anderson justifies a date-setting schema saying: “Have I not […]
Avoiding Steven Anderson’s Material – A Plea For Discernment
I am not going to mince words in this post. Promoting Anderson’s material exposes your Christian friends to his cultish thinking and behavior—which brings disrepute to the name of Christ (see below for documentation). On prophecy, Steven Anderson in the past has wrongly appropriated the label “prewrath.” He is so far off base to be […]
Does Jesus Intend a Chronology in His Parable of the Wheat and Weeds?
There are at least three common questions that arise when people study the parable of the Wheat and the Weeds in Matthew 13. The first question is whether we are able to identify the wheat and weeds. I argue in a forthcoming book that responds to posttribulationism that the parable is not a picture of […]
Tenets of Prewrath
There is a future seven-year period, and at the midpoint the Antichrist will be revealed and commit the abomination of desolation, initiating his great tribulation against the Church and Israel. There is a biblical distinction between the Antichrist’s great tribulation against the Church and Israel and the day of the Lord’s wrath against the ungodly. […]
An Immediate Descent to Earth? 1 Thessalonians 4:17
Postribulationists argue that after God’s people are caught up to the clouds to meet Christ in the rapture, they will immediately “escort” Christ back to earth, i.e., they are not taken to heaven before the throne of God. Their main argument they use is the term apantēsis (meeting) in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 requires this “immediate […]
Answering a Few Posttribulational Questions…
Someone who is struggling between posttrib and prewrath from a facebook group asked a few honest questions. I don’t intend my answers to be exhaustive, but I do want to make a few brief comments. She asks: The prewrath and post trib views are similar in many important ways. One of the issues why I […]
Will the Church Be Persecuted by Antichrist for Three and One-Half Years Before the Rapture?
John Accomando writes, [D]oes Scripture teach that we’ll be here for the full 3.5 years? Yes: Daniel 7:25- “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a […]