AlanKurschner.com/3 Coming up on Wednesday’s The Biblical Prophecy Program™, I will be making two points. What the millennial debate is not about and what it is about. Many interpreters frame the wrong question when they engage the millennial debate. This will introduce us to the most fundamental principle of interpreting the Bible. The answer may […]
Book of Revelation
What Is the Visionary Mode of the Book of Revelation? Movie Theater and/or Virtual Reality?
There are no published commentaries on the book of Revelation that I can recommend. Commentators either begin with flawed presuppositions about the framework of the book (e.g. amillennial, historical premillennial, pretribulational) or they are not asking the right questions (e.g. atomizing the text). One of these questions that is rarely investigated—and impinges on interpretive conclusions—is […]
Four Reasons the Biblical Celestial Disturbance Event Supports the Pre-Wrath Rapture – Ep. 2
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/002-celestial_disturbances.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedIn episode 2, I traced four key biblical accounts of the celestial disturbance events in Joel 2:30-31, Matthew 24:29, Luke 21:25–28, and the sixth seal in Rev 6:12–17. I explained the consistency between Joel, Jesus, and the book of Revelation. The celestial disturbance event demonstrates the biblical […]
Answering the Post-trib Interpretation of Revelation 16:15
“(Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)” (Rev 16:15 NET) Posttribulationists frequently use Revelation 16:15 to support their position. They argue that Rev 16:14–16 indicates that […]
Debate on the Date of the Book of Revelation – Mark Hitchcock vs Hank Hanegraaff
Dr. Mark Hitchcock and Mr. Hank Hanegraaff debate the date of the Book of Revelation. The debate took place on December 10, 2007 at the annual Pre-Trib Study Group meeting in Dallas, TX. Dr. Hichcock will argue for the AD 95 date. Mr. Hanegraaff will argue for the AD 65 date. While the AD 95 […]
The Natural Progression to the Onset of the Day of the Lord’s Wrath
The prewrath position makes the most sense out of the seals in the book of Revelation. Prewrath places the resurrection and the rapture between the opening of the sixth and seventh seal (Rev 7:9–17). This happens just before the day of the Lord’s wrath begins at the opening of the seventh seal containing the judgment […]
Beheaded Martyrs Participating in the “First” Resurrection – Sequential or Thematic?
http://theorangemailmanmyblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/the-first-resurrection-timing-often-misunderstood/ I also made a couple of additional comments in the combox of this post.
A Refutation of Preterism’s Kenneth Gentry’s Early Neronic Dating of the Book of Revelation
Notwithstanding Mark Hitchcock’s pretribulationism, his Ph.D dissertation is a refutation of the early dating of the Book of Revelation argued by preterists. You can download it here for free: http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/hitchcock-dissertation.pdf
Preterism’s Literalistic Interpretation of Jesus is Coming “Soon” (En Tachei)
“The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon [en tachei] take place.” (Rev 1:1) Gary DeMar and other preterist interpreters inveigh against futurists for being “literalistic” in their interpretations. Yet, I actually find many of their interpretations literalistic, as in this case, interpreting “soon” […]
Practical Premillennial Points…
The first article, I explain what the millennial debate is about—and what it is not about! I also talk about the binding of Satan issue and how it contradicts amillennialism. https://www.alankurschner.com/2012/03/04/against-amillennialism-on-the-freedom-and-binding-of-satan-in-revelation-202-3-compared-with-revelation-129/ The next article I urge that you never allow an amillennialist to begin the debate at Revelation 20:1. Never! https://www.alankurschner.com/2011/12/04/premillennial-nuggets-a-plea-to-amillennialists-to-read-revelation-201-6-in-context/ In this third article, […]
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 […]