Dr. Alan Kurschner Answers Your Bible Prophecy Questions
Pretribulationists are fond to cite Pseudo-Ephraem as support for a pretrib rapture. Charles Cooper has written the following article (Pseudo-Ephraem), which reveals that the author actually places the return of Jesus for the Church after the … [Continue reading] about Pseudo-Ephraem Is NOT a Pretribulation Document
On occasion I hear some pretrib teachers attempt to argue for a gap of time between the rapture and the beginning of the 70th week of Daniel, which they wrongly equate with the Day of the Lord's wrath. They do this to try to get around the … [Continue reading] about The SAME DAY Noah Entered the Ark, the Flood Began – NOT Seven Days Later!
All prewrath is teaching is that there will be an unprecedented persecution of Christians just before Jesus returns. And yet, this message is so offensive to many pretribs that they feel compelled to write books against prewrath, calling it … [Continue reading] about Pretrib J. D. Farag’s Feeble Faith CONTRASTED with the Bold Faith of Iranian Women
This past weekend I was in Lancaster, PA and delivered a teaching at the Zion's Hope Ministry National Bible Prophecy Conference. If you are an Eschatos Partner you receive full access to all of the E-store's digital products, including audio. … [Continue reading] about Lancaster Conference Audio Available! – Is There a ‘Gap’ between the Rapture and the Day of the Lord?
The 144,000 faithful Israelites in Revelation 7:1–8 are protected on earth with a seal of God from the impending wrath that will be poured out on the world through the trumpet and bowl judgments when the seventh seal is opened. The likely thematic … [Continue reading] about The Background to the Sealing of the 144,000: Ezekiel 9 and Exodus 12
This is a brief lexical note. Revelation 17:11 uses the cardinal number ἑπτά, hepta (“seven”) and not the ordinal number ἕβδομος, hebdomos (“seventh”). So the eighth king will come “from (or of) the seven” and not “from the seventh.” καὶ τὸ … [Continue reading] about Is the Eighth King ‘Of the SEVEN’ or ‘Of the SEVENTH’? (Revelation 17:11)
Pretribulational interpreters attempt to argue that Paul in 2 Thess 2:3 teaches that the "apostasy" and "the revelation of the man of lawlessness" will happen "during" the day of the Lord and not before it. But the Greek does not support such an … [Continue reading] about Why the Greek in John 7:51 and Mark 3:27 Supports Prewrath in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 that the Apostasy and the Antichrist Will FIRST [Proton] Happen BEFORE the Day of the Lord
Dr. Kurschner described a salient point that contradicts the traditional pretribulation view concerning Jesus's illustrations of Noah, Lot, and the thief, which refer to the second coming. “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in … [Continue reading] about Jesus’s Use of the Noah, Lot, and Thief Illustrations Contradicts the Pretribulation Rapture – Ep. 146
“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage—right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and … [Continue reading] about The Noahic, Lot, and Thief Illustrations CONTRADICT Pretribulationism
If you are looking for a helpful book for key bibliographical resources and research questions on Paul's Thessalonians epistles, see Nijay K. Gupta's new volume, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Zondervan Critical Introductions to the New Testament. Grand … [Continue reading] about Book Notice: 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Zondervan Critical Introductions to the New Testament
On September 20th in Lancaster, PA, I will be speaking at the Zions Hope Ministry Bible prophecy conference (only the land portion). See here for details. For any questions, please direct them to Zions Hope. I will be giving a presentation on … [Continue reading] about Speaking in Lancaster PA this Month!