I’d like to humbly offer five reasons the 144,000 witnesses comprised of 12,000 celibate men from each of the twelve tribes of ethnic Israel are actually 144,000 witnesses comprised of 12,000 celibate men from the twelve tribes of ethnic Israel… 1. What John wrote makes perfect sense as it stands written, and there is no […]
A Quick Question for Bob Ulrich of Prophecy Watchers
In this episode of Prophecy Watchers, Gary Stearman and his sidekick Bob Ulrich are promoting the upcoming “Blessed Hope” Bible prophecy conference, where attendees will learn about pretribulational and UFO theology. In the video below Bob Ulrich makes the claim that there is an eschatological viewpoint that believes the Church will enter the Tribulation period […]
Now we can throw ‘Christian UFOism’ into the mix
We are truly living in the dark ages of biblical prophecy—anything to avoid sober exegesis of the Word of God. We have pretribulationism that thinks they are going to escape the hands of the Antichrist by being raptured before the Antichrist’s arrival. We have preterism that thinks the Antichrist has already come and gone. We […]
The Greek Noun Apostasia Never Means a ‘Physical-Spatial Departure,’ e.g. the Rapture in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (Part 2) – Ep. 85
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/The_Greek_Noun_Apostasia_Never_Means_a__Physical-Spatial_Departure_Part_2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedWe talked about lexical specifics showing that there is no evidence in Koine Greek literature where the Greek noun apostasia means a “physical or spatial departure.” There are some pretrib teachers who think apostasia in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 refers to “the rapture.” They assume that apostasia can […]
Mid-Tribulationism Is Slightly Modified Pre-Tribulationism
Often you will hear the misinformed statement that “pre-wrath is mid-trib” or the like. Without exception it is couched in an assertion and never actually substantiated. Prewrath does not share anything with mid-tribulationism, except of course that the Church will not face God’s wrath—but that can be said of any rapture view. Mid-tribulationism is actually […]
A Paper Accepted for This Year’s Annual ETS Meeting
A quick announcement. I was informed today that I had a paper proposal on Greek linguistics accepted for this year’s Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, RI this November. “Satan Is Not Bound By A Bungee Cord: Cohesion in Revelation 19:11–20:3″ If you are a member of ETS and will be attending […]
A Teachable Moment Why Pretrib Logic Fails Miserably on the Daniel’s Seventy-Weeks Prophecy
Billy Crone in the video below (starting at 8:00) commits this common logical and biblical error on this issue. Here is the pretrib logic: Pretribs reason that since the Seventy-Weeks prophecy in Daniel 9:24–27 was given to Israel, the Church cannot “exist” on earth during any of its fulfillment. Here is why this common pretrib argument fails: […]
Pretrib teacher Billy Crone continues to produce more prewrathers!
Gary Stearman, please continue to have Billy Crone on your show, because he is producing more ex-pretribbers and thus more prewrathers! Crone’s colossal ignorance in his pretrib safe space is on display in the Prophecy Watchers below. It is truly amazing to watch his really bad argumentation. I am not kidding when I say this […]
The Greek Noun Apostasia Never Means a ‘Physical-Spatial Departure,’ e.g. the Rapture in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (Part 1) – Ep. 84
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Amillennialism Cannot Have It Both Ways…
In my estimation, this is one of the most acute inconsistencies of amillennial theology in the book of Revelation. “[The amillennial] approach does not fit the literary movement of Revelation. John pictures the period between Christ’s exaltation and return as the time of Satan’s banishment from heaven to earth, where he deceives the nations and […]
The Gospel of the Second Coming
Many Christians rightly extol the gospel of what Christ did on the cross at his first coming. But many of these same Christians are ashamed to proclaim the gospel of the second coming of Christ, giving merely lip service. I place a large blame on many pastors, since they are leaders in the Church. I […]