A friend sent me a quote from this week’s K-House Weekly eNews newsletter dated December 8, 2014, titled, “Rethinking the Blood Moon Coincidences.” It is written by William P. Welty under the auspices of Chuck Missler. FIRST, Welty refutes the Mark Biltz’s eclipse moon theory by a single grammatical point: As a Hebrew and Greek […]
Rebuttals
The “House” Metaphor as a Helpful Approach to Studying the Doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ – Ep. 16
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/016-House_Metaphor_Approach.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI described a helpful approach to studying the doctrine of the second coming. The books of the Bible have been progressively revealed to God’s people in history with the book of Revelation as the very last book that was written to complete the Bible. So instead of […]
Greg Laurie DENIES the Imminent Rapture of the Church
http://www.christianpost.com/news/greg-laurie-no-question-these-are-the-end-times-americas-role-as-superpower-will-diminish-as-new-world-order-forms-130582/ Pretrib teachers are notorious for committing a major contradiction in their system. On one side of their mouth they believe in the “any moment” (i.e. imminent) rapture of God’s people, which means, according to their own definition, there cannot be any prophesied events that must occur before the rapture. Then on the other side […]
Pre-Trib Bible Prophecy Questions for a Pre-Wrath Exponent – Ep. 15
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/015-Pretrib_Questions_for_a_Prewrather.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI played my interview from View From the Bunker hosted by Derek Gilbert. He asked me about fifteen questions, many of them that pretribulationists frequently ask of the prewrath position. The following are questions and topics we discussed: -How is prewrath different from the pre-trib, mid-trib, and […]
“I Came to the Prewrath Conclusion on My Own”
Over the years, I have had many people write me and tell me this. Whenever I hear this, it only confirms to me that the prewrath position is the natural reading of Scripture. They did not read any prewrath literature to reach this conclusion. They read the Bible first and came to that conclusion, only […]
Debating Eschatology PROMOTES Unity in the Church
One of the myths out there is that debating eschatology “divides the church.” This is not true. It is a cliché that we hear all the time from pseudo-pious individuals. In reality, it is just the opposite that divides the church. Pastors promote disunity on this issue by enforcing conformity in their church (“Our way or […]
Interviewed by Michael Brown on The Line of Fire – Prewrath and Posttrib
Dr. Michael Brown had me on The Line of Fire today to discuss prewrath and post-trib (It starts at 31 minutes into the program). I want to thank Dr. Brown, who is a post-tribber, for his willingness to seek to understand prewrath eschatology. I knew that I would have a very short time—about 20 minutes […]
Do the Seals on the Scroll in the Book of Revelation Express the Day of the Lord’s Wrath? – Ep. 13
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/013-Are_the_Seals_Gods_Wrath.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI responded to the very common pretribulational claim that the seals in the book of Revelation express the day of the Lord’s wrath. They argue this namely because it says that Jesus himself opens the seals. I refuted this notion by actually examining the biblical texts in […]
A Stark Contrast between a PreWrath and PreTrib 2015 Bible Prophecy Conference – Ep. 11
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/011-Prewrath_and_Pretrib_Conferences.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed I contrasted the stark features between an upcoming pretrib prophecy conference and a prewrath prophecy conference. The differences are telling. I talked about a material feature that the pretrib conference is promoting to get you to attend their conference! I also could not find anywhere on […]
A Refutation of Dr. Ben Witherington III – Long on Assertions, Short on Actual Argumentation
I have refuted both of Dr. Ben Witherington’s claims here: https://www.alankurschner.com/2014/10/08/as-it-was-in-the-days-of-noah-do-you-want-to-be-left-behind-or-taken-at-the-second-coming-of-jesus-matthew-2437-41-ep-9/ https://www.alankurschner.com/2014/09/03/does-the-bible-teach-the-rapture-an-explanation-of-1-thessalonians-417-ep-4/
James 5:7–9 – A Pretrib Imminent Rapture or An Expectant Second Coming of Christ? – Ep. 10
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/010-James_5.7-9.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI examined James 5:7–9 arguing that this very popular pretribulational prooftext does not teach that the rapture is “imminent.” Instead, James is teaching that the Lord’s return—his second coming (parousia)—is expectant. The pretribulational definition of imminence is that there cannot be any prophesied events that must occur […]