Joe Bell replied to me writing an egregious ignorant email about the prewrath position. I will respond to it point by point here. He writes: With all due respect brother, you mean the church needs to be taught a death theology that you propagate because very few believers will make it through the first three […]
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Chuck Smith Tells 8,000 Calvary Chapel Goers They Will Not Have to Suffer Because the “Imminent Rapture” is Soon
Chuck Smith, the founder of Calvary Chapel, this past week spoke at a Calvary Chapel Bible prophecy conference attended by 8,000 persons. His message to them was basically, “Look at the precarious world, you will escape the coming tribulation by being raptured soon…is it not a comfort!” You can read the article here. He makes […]
What Does “The Apostasy” Refer to in 2 Thessalonians 2:3?
Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy [ho apostasia] comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction (2 Thess 2:3 NASB) Paul wrote his second letter to the Thessalonians because he learned that they were deceptively being taught by some that […]
An Open Debate Challenge to Jimmy DeYoung on the Timing of the Rapture
“The first to state his case seems right, until his opponent begins to cross-examine him.” —Proverbs 18:17 Mr. Jimmy DeYoung I would like to challenge you to a public moderated debate on the timing of the rapture: Prewrath vs. Pretribulationism. Will you accept? We can schedule for summer at a location of your choosing. A […]
Response to Renald Showers on Ezekiel 14:21 — First Four Seals and “Four terrible judgments–sword, famine, wild animals, and plague”
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 […]
A Response to “Prophecy Today” and Jimmy DeYoung and Renald Showers
I was informed that pretribulationist Jimmy DeYoung would be talking about Prewrath on his prophecy show Prophecy Today and that he would have Renald Showers as a guest. I wrote DeYoung before the show to tell him that I would be available to go on his show to interact with Showers and himself on prewrath, […]
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 […]
Class on Doctrine of the Second Coming Starts This Week in New Jersey
A reminder that I am teaching a course on the Second Coming in North Jersey starting this Thursday. Here is the info: http://www.jesusbibleinstitute.org/
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 […]
A Critique of Eric Douma’s Eschatology
Over at the Prewrath Resource Institute’s blog, I am responding to Eric Douma’s pretribulational claims. I am doing a series challenging his teaching on the day of the Lord because it is seriously flawed. I am also responding to him because his arguments represent other pretribulational teachers. I will update the links here until my […]
A Few Responses to Mike Stallard
I want to briefly respond to a few objections that pretribulationist Mike Stallard had made against the prewrath position. I have heard similar objections by others, so I hope my response here will be instructive. On the Celestial Disturbances In 2002 at the Pre-Trib Study Group, Mike Stallard wrote, “An Analysis of the Use […]