The short answer is because Christ is portrayed as the (1) omniscient witness to all deeds and to humanity’s guilt, and (2) the agent of God’s judgment (Rev 1:14–16; 2:12, 16, 18, 23–27; 5:1–8). The long answer is that the seals function as bringing to open humanity’s guilt before God, so that Jesus’s judgment against […]
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Why the Bowls Follow AFTER the Trumpet Judgements: The Bowls ‘Complete’ God’s Wrath (Part 5) – Ep. 157
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/The_Bowls_Complete_Gods_Wrath_Part_5_-_Ep._157.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedDr. Kurschner gave another reason why the bowls judgments in the book of Revelation occur after the trumpet judgments. “Then I saw another great and astounding sign in heaven: seven angels who have seven final [eschatas] plagues (they are final because in them God’s anger is completed […]
Closing the Gap on the Pretrib Rapture ‘Gap’ Theory
Traditional pretribulationists have consistently believed that the rapture and the inception of the day of the Lord’s wrath will occur back-to-back on the same day. Prewrath came along and pointed out the “Before the day of the Lord” passages (e.g. Joel 2:29–31; Mal 4:5; 2 Thess 2:3) and demonstrated that since the Bible teaches that […]
Why the Bowls Follow AFTER the Trumpet Judgements: The ‘One Third’ Statements of the Trumpet Judgments (Part 4) – Ep. 156
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/The_One_Third_of_the_Trumpet_Judgments_Part_4_Ep._156.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedDr. Kurschner continued to give reasons why the bowl judgments will follow after the trumpet judgments, against the recapitulation view. He focused on the limited scope description of the ‘one third’ statements in contrast to a much wider scope described in the bowl judgments. For example: Rev […]
Why the Bowls Follow AFTER the Trumpet Judgements: the Swift Imagery of the ‘Bowl’ (Part 3) – Ep. 155
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/The_Swift_Imagery_of_the_Bowl_Part_3_-_Ep_155.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedDr. Kurschner explained a point on the qualified language of the trumpet judgments in contrast to the unqualified or unabated language of the bowl judgments. The Greek word for “bowl” in the Book of Revelation is φιάλη, which refers to “a broad, shallow bowl,” where the contents […]
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 […]
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 […]
NOW IN AUDIOBOOK! Prewrath: A Very Short Introduction to the Great Tribulation, Rapture, and Day of the Lord
If you are not a member of audible you can sign up for it and get your first audiobook for free, which can be this prewrath audiobook. Click on the image below. Publisher’s Summary Many of us have been told that we will be “raptured out of here before the Antichrist arrives”. But what […]
A response to some effective, but terrible, pretrib arguments . . .
While prewrath prefers to spend time responding to more rigorous pretrib arguments, it is often the case that the really bad pretrib arguments sway the pretrib masses. So they must be responded to as well. Recently, on his Bible Prophecy Talk podcast, Chris White responded to pretrib teacher Dr. Mark Hitchcock and demonstrated how weak […]
Why the Bowls Follow AFTER the Trumpet Judgements: The Bowls Identified as the Third Woe (Part 2) – Ep. 154
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Why_the_Bowls_Follow_AFTER_the_Trumpet_Judgements_The_Bowls_Identified_as_the_Third_Woe_Part_2_-_Ep._154.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedDr. Kurschner continues a series giving reasons why the bowl judgments follow after the sounding of the seventh trumpet, and not before as the recapitulation framework would have it. In Part 2, he argues that the identity of the “third woe” is the series of bowl judgments, […]