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Olivet Discourse

The Problem with Interpreting Matt 24:30 as ‘Armageddon’ – Ep. 128

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/The_Problem_with_Interpreting_Matt_2430_as_Armageddon_-_Ep._128.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedDoes Matthew 24:30 refer to the battle of Armageddon in Revelation 19? I responded to this standard pretrib interpretation and explained the most problematic point with this view, which violates the narrative logic of both the Olivet Discourse and the book of Revelation. In particular the Noahic […]

James on the DELAY of Jesus’s Second Coming (Parousia) – Ep. 127

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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/James_on_the_DELAY_of_Jesuss_Second_Coming_Parousia_-_Ep._127.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedJames contains a key passage on the delay of Jesus’s second coming and how to live in light of it. He received his teaching from the oral tradition of Jesus’s instruction of the Olivet Discourse, since there are several direct links with it. James’s teaching on the […]

God will protect our soul IN the world, not FROM the world, during the Antichrist’s great tribulation

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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 […]

If the Olivet Discourse Is Not a Church Teaching, Then Why Did Paul Link 30 Ties from It for His Own Thessalonian Church Instruction?

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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

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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 […]

Revelation 6:16–17 Is NOT a ‘Summary Statement’ of God’s Wrath

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“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 ‘Thousand Years’ Reference in Revelation 20 Indicates a Period of Time

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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 […]

A brief reply to those who claim the ‘one thousand years’ millennium in the book of Revelation is ‘figurative’ rather than literal

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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 […]

Pretribulational teachers add ANOTHER dispensation to human history in order to protect imminence theology against prewrath eschatology

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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 […]

Council on Dispensational Hermeneutics

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The Council on Dispensational Hermeneutics is a group of traditional dispensationalists made up of mostly pretribulationists, some I have interacted with on the blog. Even though I think they are wrong-headed on pretribulational theology, there are other points that I believe we can learn from them on, for example, the question of Israel’s future, premillennialism, […]

A public debate challenge for Andy Woods to defend his new book: The Falling Away: Spiritual Departure or Physical Rapture?: A Second Look at 2 Thessalonians 2:3

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Andy Woods has recently written a booklet (54 pages): The Falling Away: Spiritual Departure or Physical Rapture?: A Second Look at 2 Thessalonians 2:3. He interprets the Greek word apostasia (the apostasy/falling away) as referring to the rapture. “Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes […]

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