The Thessalonian believers in Paul’s second epistle were suffering because of persecution. They made the mistake of thinking that they were experiencing the day of the Lord’s wrath because of this. Paul writes back and reassures them that the day of the Lord’s wrath has not come, because two events must happen first: the […]
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One Taken and One Left Behind, and the Meaning of ‘Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather’ in Luke 17:37 – Ep. 49
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My Post-Debate Commentary and Why Tommy Ice Failed to Support His Pretribulational Rapture – Ep 48
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A prewrath meet-up at this year’s annual Evangelical Theological Society meeting in Atlanta, GA
If you are a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and attending next month’s ETS annual meeting in Atlanta, GA, I am organizing a prewrath meet-up. If you are interested you can contact me. Alan Hultberg, myself, and other prewrath exponents will be there.
Replies to the Post-Tribulational Rapture View
I have a book in the works specifically responding to post-tribulationism. I think there are some entrenched presuppositions in the posttrib framework that need to be challenged (and some have been here). Prewrath shares some affinity with post-trib, but there are important aspects in post-trib interpretation that fail to find biblical support. To name a […]
My Eschatology Debate with Pretrib Thomas Ice on the Antichrist, Rapture, and Second Coming – Ep. 47
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/047-My_Eschatology_Debate_with_Pretrib_Thomas_Ice_on_the_Antichrist_Rapture_and_Second_Coming.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedIn this episode I posted the entire audio of the debate for The Biblical Prophecy Program™. The debate is also posted at the main debate page with audio and video found here: CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO AND VIDEO OF DEBATE In this episode I prefaced the debate with […]
Red-Eye Moon
I took a red-eye flight to Jersey on my way back from the rapture debate in Dallas. I was able to catch the tail end of the super blood moon and I talked about one of my strategies for debating Thomas Ice this past weekend. Tracing the celestial disturbance event from Joel, the Olivet Discourse, […]
RAPTURE DEBATE between Alan Kurschner (Prewrath) and Thomas Ice (Pretrib) | AUDIO and VIDEO
Watch the debate here. Listen to my post-debate commentary Click here for a PDF transcript of the debate THE CHURCH WILL FACE THE ANTICHRIST BEFORE THE RAPTURE Affirmative: Alan Kurschner | Prewrath Denial: Thomas Ice | Pretribulational Moderated by Kerby Anderson The Hope Center, Plano, Texas September 25, 2015 Debate Format: Part 1: […]
Update on My Debate with Dr. Thomas Ice
UPDATE: Here is the debate I appreciate Dr. Ice for accepting the invitation to debate. Not many pretrib teachers are willing to engage on this level—come to think of it, he is the only one! I am very pleased with how the debate went. The audio will be posted on this site in […]
Does Apostasia in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Refer to a ‘Physical Departure’ (i.e. the Rapture)?
Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion (apostasia) comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction – 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ESV (some versions render “rebellion” as “apostasy” or “falling away”) Second Thessalonians chapter two has been the nemesis for pretribulationism. […]
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