Alan Kurschner, Ph.D. is the founder of Eschatos Ministries, teaching Bible prophecy from a futurist, premillennial, prewrath perspective.
Chuck Smith, the founder of Calvary Chapel, this past week spoke at a Calvary Chapel Bible prophecy conference attended by 8,000 persons. His message to them was basically, "Look at the precarious world, you will escape the coming tribulation by … [Continue reading] about Chuck Smith Tells 8,000 Calvary Chapel Goers They Will Not Have to Suffer Because the “Imminent Rapture” is Soon
This is the latest publication in the Prewrath Pamphlet Series™. You can order it here. This pamphlet complements the previous one that was on the Didache, by expanding the early church testimony up to A.D. 250, which taught that the … [Continue reading] about New Pamphlet Available – The Early Church Teaching on the Relationship Between the Church and Antichrist
(See also www.alankurschner.com/3) The debate between premillennialism and amillennialism is not about whether the 1,000 years mentioned in Revelation 20 refers to a literal 1,000 years. Both positions agree with each other that it denotes at … [Continue reading] about Against Amillennialism — On the Freedom and Binding of Satan in Revelation 20:2–3 Compared with Revelation 12:9
This is the latest publication in the Prewrath Pamphlet Series. You can order it here. I have heard the objection to the prewrath position that it is a new interpretation. I gladly accept this charge that the prewrath position is new, … [Continue reading] about Didache Pamphlet Available! The Dida-What? The Earliest Church’s Teaching on the Antichrist
This is a five page glossy pamphlet (3 3/4 x 8 1/2) that gives a summary explanation of what prewrath teaches. It is ideal for the church foyer, giving them out to friends, and even airdropping them over the next annual pretrib … [Continue reading] about Now Available! A Prewrath Pamphlet — Prewrath: What Is It?
A Most Excellent Teacher by Marc S. Handelsman Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA Blog: http://mhandels.blogspot.com When I was a student at the Friends of Israel: Institute of Biblical Studies (now Institute of Jewish Studies), … [Continue reading] about A Prewrath Story — A Most Excellent Teacher
Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy [ho apostasia] comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction (2 Thess 2:3 NASB) Paul wrote his second letter to the Thessalonians because he … [Continue reading] about What Does “The Apostasy” Refer to in 2 Thessalonians 2:3?
I have argued previously that the day of the Lord will not be a simple, literal 24-hour day, as many postribulationists claim. The day of the Lord will be a complex-whole when God works out his purposes of deliverance of his people and judgment upon … [Continue reading] about “But in the days when the seventh angel is about to blow his trumpet…” —Revelation 10:7
The Prewrath charts are now available in electronic format, as well as laminated. E-Charts are helpful for PowerPoint presentations and other teaching media. They come as a set of four charts: 1. Prewrath Overview of Final Seven Years 2. … [Continue reading] about Prewrath Charts Available in E-Chart Format
This parable is often cited as a prooftext from posttribulationists to support the notion that the church will be here on earth protected in the day of the Lord's wrath, then afterwards be raptured. Does the parable of the Wheat and Weeds (Tares) … [Continue reading] about Does the Parable of the Wheat and Weeds in Matthew 13 Teach a Sequence?
(9) Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given. (10) They cried out with a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign … [Continue reading] about The Fifth Seal — And “Those Who Die in the Lord From This Moment On!”