Chris White gives an exciting update on the Prewrath Movie, laid out the case for Michael being the Restrainer of 2 Thessalonians 2, and finished up his series on Mark Hitchcock. BTP 2.0 – Michael The Restrainer of 2 Thess 2 – and Hitchcock Part 2 Prewrath Film Project
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ANNOUNCEMENT on a Debate AND a Conference!
At this point, all I can say is that we have a definitive “yes” from a noted preterist for a debate with futurist Dr. Brock Hollett (no, it is not Gary DeMar, since he has proven repeatedly that he has zero interest in meaningful interaction with scholarly futurists). The debate, which will likely be in […]
The Meaning of ‘Secret’ in the Pretribulational Rapture Expression ‘the Secret Coming of Christ’
An older expression in pretribulational literature—and can still be used occasionally today—is secret coming or secret rapture. From my exposure to older pretrib and non-pretrib literature, it seemed to be used synonymous with the expressions signless coming or signless rapture, in contrast to an announced coming or announced rapture. Darby attempted to answer objections to his secret […]
A Note on the Upcoming Rapture Debate between Gary DeMar and Kent Hovind
Gary DeMar and Kent Hovind will be debating on the rapture. I have a few comments. First, Kent Hovind is not prewrath. So contrary to DeMar, he is not debating a prewrath exponent. Not sure who fed him that. Hovind is an idiosyncratic posttribber, who is appropriating the popular term “prewrath.” Hovind’s eschatology, with all […]
Was Charles Spurgeon a Supersessionist When It Came to Israel?
Spurgeon was a historical premillennialist, not a futurist premillennialist. I came across the following statement of his which would indicate he was supersessionistic: “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of […]
Did Charles Spurgeon Believe in Imminence?
The short answer is ‘no.’ Recently, Alf Cengia, a pretrib blogger wrote concerning Charles Spurgeon, who is claimed to have purportedly believed in imminence, “what’s good for Charles Spurgeon should be good for me and just about everyone else.” The fallacy of “the appeal to authority” is not a biblical principle of interpretation. As you […]
Intervening events before Jesus’ Return play a POSITIVE role in our looking for Jesus Himself
Robert H. Gundry rightly notes that the purifying influence of Jesus’s return is not some supposed “unexpected moment” of Jesus’s return but rather: [O]ur whole life will pass in review before the Lord. . . . The character and consequences of an event determine its motivating force much more than the time of its occurrence. […]
Gundry on ‘A-Tribulationism’
Postribulationist Robert H. Gundry, who held to the futurity of Daniel’s seventieth week, states: “Those who hold to the historical view of the seventieth week [e.g. amillennialists, historical premillennialists] should be designated a-tribulationists; for although they may allow for a few events necessarily prior to the second coming, they squeeze them into such a short […]
Future National Israel
Blaising and Bock write, For [Bruce] Waltke, the issue centers on the land. But is his criterion for “proof” too narrow, demanding as he does an explicit New Testament affirmation of Israel’s inheritance in the land in order for Old Testament promises to be taken in their historical sense? Is land the central issue Waltke […]
Back Issues of the PAROUSIA Newsletter Published by Sign Ministries 1996-2001
Not sure how long these back issues of the Parousia newsletter will be online, so be sure to download them to your computer for future reference for your prewrath studies. They were published by Robert Van Kampen’s Sign Ministries during 1996-2001. http://www.solagroup.org/products/newsletters.html
On Misrepresenting Dispensationalism
Craig A. Blaising tells the following story, Recently, one of my students wrote a paper on current issues in dispensationalism. At the beginning he quoted a prominent pastor who identified dispensationalism as that dangerous heresy of date-setting. The student, of course, dismissed this charge as simply uninformed. Dispensationalism is a futurist premillennialism. Its very reception […]