https://swbts.edu/sites/default/files/images/content/docs/journal/59_1/SWJT%2059.1_Sibley.pdf “So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and priceless in God’s sight, you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it says in […]
Rebuttals
Does Acts 17:31 Support Imminence of Jesus’s Return? – Ep. 91
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Does_Acts_1731_Support_Imminence_of_Jesus_s_Return__-_Ep._91.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI responded to the pretrib proof text Acts 17:31 that purports to support an any-moment rapture. “Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent, (31) because he has set a day on which he is going to judge […]
Is Every Promise Fulfilled in Christ? A Reply to Thomas Schreiner’s Supersessionism
[W]hat about the promise of land? This is a very controversial subject, but I would argue that the promise of land is fundamentally fulfilled, first, in the resurrection of Jesus himself. Every promise is fulfilled in Jesus; so the resurrection, the physical resurrection of Jesus, it’s the inauguration of that promise made, originally, to Adam […]
A Quick Response to Pretrib Teacher and Pastor Geoffrey Kirkland
Geoffrey Kirkland makes the mistake of indicating that his pretribulationism is the only interpretation of futuristic premillennialism. He does not even use the term “pretribulationism.” He just (wrongly) assumes futuristic premillennialism is the same thing as his eschatological pretrib framework, which misleads his readers. They are not the same thing. Pretribultionism is one interpretation of […]
Why One’s View on Imminence Theology Matters – Ep. 90
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Why_One_s_View_on_Imminence_Theology_Matters_-_Ep._90.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedYour view of agreeing or disagreeing with a pretrib imminent rapture matters. I explained that there are implications to holding to imminence theology. We should, instead, take a biblical expectancy position toward Jesus’s return, which I explained what I mean by this. There are three features to […]
What Is the Best Argument for Premillennialism?
I am finishing my PhD this coming year, finally. My dissertation is on a linguistic analysis of the cohesion between Revelation 19–20. Without exception, amillennialists break the unified discourse at Revelation 20:1, being influenced by the chapter break. They retroject the binding of Satan by lifting this event from its immediate context back to the […]
How Would It Prove Pretrib If APOSTASIA Refers to the Rapture? – Ep. 89
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God has worked with Israel and the church at the same time in the past…
God has worked with Israel and the church at the same time in the past, he does in the present, and he will in the future. Here is a bit on the past. In the Past God worked with Israel during the church age in AD 70. Before the death of Jesus during the Old […]
THE Apostasy Within the Church Will Come Through the Antichrist’s Mark of the Beast – Ep. 88
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(VIDEO) An Easy Refutation of Pretrib Pastor Joey Wampler on the 24 Elders
I have replied to this common pretrib argument before here and here. Incidentally, pastor Wampler, first, you have to understand that Steven Anderson holds to a warped view of the prewrath rapture. He is not representative of the prewrath position. Second, you said that Steven Anderson has a skewed interpretation of this passage. That is […]
X Marks the Spot? A Critique of the Use of Chiasmus in Macro-Structural Analyses of Revelation
chiasmus |kīˈazməs| noun; a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form. I do not believe that the ancient writers were intending to structure their texts through a chiasmus. It is not a valid hermeneutical category for New Testament studies. […]