(Truth in the Last Days — Post 8) Wrath vs. Tribulation Many believers have been taught that the moment the Lamb opens the seals in Revelation 6, the world immediately falls under the wrath of God. But that is not what the text says — and it’s certainly not what the rest of Scripture affirms….
(Truth in the Last Days — Post 7) “In a world longing for escape, Christ prayed that His people would be kept. Tribulation is not wrath, and the Church’s endurance is her testimony of victory.” Why Jesus Prayed We Would Stay “I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that…
(Truth in the Last Days — Post 5) “And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” — Revelation 20:4 (KJV) The Error of Literalism — Why the Millennium Is Not Literal One of the most persistent errors of modern prophecy teaching is the insistence that the “thousand years” of Revelation 20 describes a…
(Truth in the Last Days — Post 4) A Picture of the Redeemed, Not a Proof of the Rapture The Misinterpretation of the Elders Dispensational teachers often claim that the twenty-four elders in Revelation 4 and 5 represent a raptured Church — proof, they say, that believers are taken to heaven before tribulation begins. But…
Symbol, Judgment, and Christ’s Appearing — Not a Millennial Blueprint Many today are turning to Zechariah 14 as a proof text for a future millennial kingdom in which Christ will rule from a physical throne in literal Jerusalem. But a careful reading of the chapter within its prophetic context and fulfillment in Christ reveals something…
And Why Jesus Gave a Two-Horizon Prophecy There is a growing trend — especially among hyper-preterists and some partial-preterists — to force all of Matthew 24 into a single past fulfillment in AD 70. And while AD 70 is very real, very biblical, and absolutely necessary to understand, it is not the end of the…
How the Abrahamic Promises Are Fulfilled in Christ “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.”— Galatians 3:16 (KJV) Christian Zionism begins with a fundamental misreading of the covenant God made with Abraham….
Jim Fowler on Revelation 20 In Revelation 20, many Christians expect a future utopian kingdom on earth. But Jim Fowler’s Spirit-led interpretation exposes that idea as a distraction from the real battle—and the real reign—happening now. Fowler identifies what he calls “the enigma of the interim”—the perplexing gap between the finished work of Christ on…
Why Genesis 12:3 Isn’t a Foreign Policy Verse How the Promise to Abraham Was Fulfilled in Christ — Not in the Modern State of Israel “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”— Genesis 12:3 (KJV) Mike Pompeo…
Shadows or Substance: Why the Old Covenant Cannot Return — 1 of 10 Why the Apostles Declared David’s Throne Already Occupied “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder…” — Isaiah 9:6 Few questions shape our understanding of biblical prophecy more than…