I want to make a brief note responding to the annihilationist claim that unbelievers will not suffer conscious torment after judgment day (i.e. they will cease to exist all-together). They will be “annihilated,” it is claimed. The problem with this view is that Rev 19:20 contradicts this notion: “And the beast was captured, and with […]
“I stopped believing in God after pastoring a megachurch”
The point below made by Steve Hays can also be said of believers in the church who do not have a solid biblical foundation in eschatology and thus will be unprepared when the Antichrist’s great tribulation arrives. https://triablogue.blogspot.com/2018/09/i-stopped-believing-in-god-after.html I don’t know if this is worth commenting on, but it’s getting lots of buzz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-nE-zrIhKc A […]
Falsely accused during the great tribulation . . . with no recourse
A great degree of the Church will be summarily executed during the great tribulation for not giving their allegiance to the Antichrist. Jesus and Paul however, teach that not all believers will die, but there will be a remnant who will survive up to the parousia. Christians will also be falsely accused, many, Jesus teaches, […]
Models of Premillennialism (Book Notice)
Models of Premillennialism by Sung Wook Chung and David Mathewson Purchase the book on kindle or paperback The meaning of “the millennium”–the thousand-year reign of Christ spoken of in Revelation 20–has been controversial for much of the church’s history, and even the main perspectives on the matter turn out to be more variegated than […]
Beware of the false prophets of social justice
“My 42 years of life can be divided roughly into two periods. The first began with my birth in West Africa to Christian missionary parents. Though my family was forced to leave Africa when my siblings and I became deathly ill with malaria, our missionary-style life continued in Missouri’s Ozark region. My father pastored small […]
Revelation 6:16–17 Is NOT a ‘Summary Statement’ of God’s Wrath
“They said to the mountains and to the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?’” (Rev 6:16–17) A host of […]
“The events depicted in the book of Revelation could never take place…they are merely symbolic” (Video)
A Surprise From the Supervolcano Under Yellowstone Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies a supervolcano, a behemoth far more powerful than your average volcano. It has the ability to expel more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of rock and ash at once — 250,000 times more material than erupted from Mount St. Helens in 1980, which killed […]
Quick Update on The Biblical Prophecy Program™
We will resume The Biblical Prophecy Program™ in October. I took a brief break in August to write up a spate of substantive blog articles that will continue to be posted in the month of September!
The ‘Thousand Years’ Reference in Revelation 20 Indicates a Period of Time
Last week I responded to an objection that the thousand years reference in the book of Revelation is not literal. I want to address a similar objection. But this time it is not an objection by amillennialists. Premillennialists and amillennialists agree with each other that the thousand years reference denotes a temporal period, that is, a […]
Answering a Common Amillennial Objection to Premillennialism on When Death Is Eliminated in Relation to the Millennium
Leaving aside the question of the timing of the millennium for this article, though it is related to this issue here, amillennialists, such as Sam Storms, adduce a common objection against premillennialism. He and other amillennialists cite 1 Cor 15:25–26 as evidence for amillennialism: “For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under […]
A brief reply to those who claim the ‘one thousand years’ millennium in the book of Revelation is ‘figurative’ rather than literal
Many interpreters claim that the references in the book of Revelation in Chapter 20 to the one thousand year millennium is figurative because (1) other references to numbers in the book of Revelation are figurative, and (2) the book of Revelation is full of figurative language. I would disagree with (1) because there are good […]