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 […]
Rebuttals
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 […]
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 […]
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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1 and 2 Thessalonians – Zondervan Critical Introductions to the New Testament Series (Book Notice)
1 and 2 Thessalonians (Zondervan Critical Introductions to the New Testament Series) by Nijay K. Gupta Get it at Amazon The study of Paul’s Thessalonian letters is enjoying fresh interest today. These texts are considered by many to be amongst the earliest extant Christian documents. They are […]
My 3 Year Old Refuted Psychological Pretrib Imminency!
I told my 3 year old son that he had to wait until Christmas day to open up his presents. In other words, it was not an imminent event but rather a delayed intervening period. Was his response “diminished hope” as pretibbers would have you believe if there was an intervening period before the rapture? […]
A Reply to David James Who Thinks It Is Possible that a TRUE Believer Can Take the Mark of the Beast and REMAIN Saved
It is worse than I thought. David James’s pretribulationism is incredibly incoherent and the man cannot be reasoned with in just normal discourse. That is unfortunate because as Christians we are called to have Christ-like discussions, which also includes representing the other side accurately and fairly. David James also holds to a false Gospel, thinking […]
Why the Bowls Follow AFTER the Trumpet Judgements: A Response to Recapitulation on the Reclamation of the Kingdom (Part 1) – Ep. 153
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Why_the_Bowls_Follow_AFTER_the_Trumpet_Judgements_A_Response_to_Recapitulation_on_the_Reclamation_of_the_Kingdom_Part_1_-_Ep._153.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedDr. Kurschner started a mini-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. His first reason in this first part focused on the pronouncement of the reclamation of the kingdom of […]