Alan Kurschner, Ph.D. is the founder of Eschatos Ministries, teaching Bible prophecy from a futurist, premillennial, prewrath perspective.
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 … [Continue reading] about My 3 Year Old Refuted Psychological Pretrib Imminency!
Reading Revelation in Context: John's Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism (Editor), John K. Goodrich (Editor), Jason Maston (Editor), Loren T. Stuckenbruck … [Continue reading] about Reading Revelation In Context: John’s Apocalypse and Second Temple Judaism (Book Notice)
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 … [Continue reading] about A Reply to David James Who Thinks It Is Possible that a TRUE Believer Can Take the Mark of the Beast and REMAIN Saved
Dr. 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 … [Continue reading] about Why the Bowls Follow AFTER the Trumpet Judgements: A Response to Recapitulation on the Reclamation of the Kingdom (Part 1) – Ep. 153
The Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy: Studies and Expositions of the Messiah in the Old Testament, eds. Michael Rydelnik and Edwin Blum Get it at … [Continue reading] about The Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy: Studies and Expositions of the Messiah in the Old Testament, editors Michael Rydelnik and Edwin Blum (Book Notice)
We have raised 47% of what we need to meet our campaign goal for the Prewrath Movie Project! Thank you for all those who have contributed. Now we need to complete this campaign with the latter half. If you have not given to the project please … [Continue reading] about Help With the Second Half of the Prewrath Movie Project Campaign!
A few weeks back I attended the annual ETS meeting in San Diego. The first unit I took in was on "The Future of Progressive Dispensationalism." The session I heard was by Bruce A. Ware entitled, "The Hermeneutics of Progressive Dispensationalism … [Continue reading] about My Positive Interaction with Progressive Dispensationalist Bruce Ware at the Annual ETS Meeting
This week I posted on the Modern Hebrew-Speaking Jew Fallacy, at least that is what I call it. A reader from Israel chimed in with the following. Hi Alan, Timely post this one. Living out here [Israel] I see this exact same thing quite a bit. While … [Continue reading] about A Follow Up to My Recent Post ‘The Modern Hebrew-Speaking Jew Fallacy”
This is a real fallacy that is pervasive in some evangelical circles, especially pretrib circles. There is also the Modern Greek-Speaking Greek counterpart fallacy. But the former is more common. Many evangelicals think that modern Jews who speak … [Continue reading] about ‘The Modern Hebrew-Speaking Jew’ Fallacy
Arnold Fruchtenbaum states: Genesis 7:10 states that the waters of the flood began seven days after Noah entered the ark. . . . The flood did not come the same day that Noah entered the ark . . . Just as there was a period of time between Noah … [Continue reading] about A Reply to Arnold Fruchtenbaum’s Glaring Omission of a Key Part of the Noahic Flood Narrative
Arnold Fruchtenbaum states: [I]mminency does not mean that "no prophesied events must occur before the rapture." Imminence means that no prophecied event must be fulfilled before the rapture, although the possibility does exist." In attempt to … [Continue reading] about A Reply to Arnold Fruchtenbaum on Misrepresenting Marvin Rosenthal’s Definition of Pretrib Imminence