One of the most common reasons Christians are embracing the prewrath position is because of the distinction that is made between the Antichrist’s great tribulation and the day of the Lord’s wrath. Christians will be removed (raptured) from the latter but not the former. This point has caused the light bulb to go off in […]
Great Tribulation
The OTHER Unforgivable Sin Mentioned in the Bible . . .
Here is the unforgivable sin that is mentioned in the Bible: “I tell you the truth, people will be forgiven for all sins, even all the blasphemies they utter. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin” (because they said, ‘He has an unclean spirit’).” […]
Peter on the DELAY of Jesus’s Coming, and a Biblical Rebuke to Jan Markell’s Comments Against Prewrath Teaching – Ep. 126
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Peter_on_the_DELAY_of_Jesuss_Coming_Jan_Markell_Ep_126.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedPeter’s teaching on the delay of the parousia is consistent with Jesus’s teaching. This is not surprising since Peter was one of the main disciples that Jesus taught the Olivet Discourse to directly. In this episode, I covered what Peter taught on how we should order our […]
If the Olivet Discourse Is Not a Church Teaching, Then Why Did Paul Link 30 Ties from It for His Own Thessalonian Church Instruction?
If the Olivet Discourse Is Not a Church Teaching, Then Why Did Paul Link 30 Ties from It for His Own Thessalonian Church Instruction? For more charts, click here…
A Reply to John F. Hart on Why the Parousia in Matt 24:36–44 Refers Back to the Parousia in Matt 24:30–31
Six years ago, I did a six-part series responding to John F. Hart’s (and other pretrib teachers’) unfounded and strained interpretation that the parousia in Matt 24:36–44 is a completely different parousia than the one depicted in Matt 24:27, 30–31. I am re-posting my series below. Incidentally, during these six years I have never received […]
The Olivet Discourse Is about the DELAY of Jesus’s Coming, Not His Nearness – Ep. 125
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Hell is a real, conscious place of torment – a brief reply to annihilationism
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, […]
Pretrib Bill Salus Contradicts Pretrib Billy Crone on Prophecy Watchers (Video)
A few weeks back Gary Stearman host of Prophecy Watchers interviewed pretrib teacher Billy Crone about his book on the seals of Revelation where Crone takes the typical pretrib interpretation that the seals are part of the day of the Lord’s wrath. (I have written a refutation to Crone on his flawed interpretation of the […]
Pretribulational teachers add ANOTHER dispensation to human history in order to protect imminence theology against prewrath eschatology
All theologians believe the Bible teaches that human history is made up of a variety of dispensations where God works in a special redemptive mode and epoch. What is debated, however, is the number of dispensations and the nature of them. I believe Paul outlines at least four fundamental dispensations (oikonomia) in human history in […]