Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10095. The end of the millennium brings one of the strangest sequences in Scripture. After a thousand years of Christ reigning in person from Jerusalem, with the enemy bound and righteousness enforced, there is a rebellion. Not a small one either. Revelation says the number of the rebels is like the sand of the…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 10094. Historic premillennialism and dispensational premillennialism agree on the headline. Jesus returns bodily to the earth before a literal thousand year reign, and He reigns in person over a real kingdom. Against amillennialism and postmillennialism, both stand together, and I want to say clearly at the outset that historic premillennialists are brothers in Christ…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10093. Jerusalem in prophecy is not one topic among many. It is the stage on which the closing acts of the biblical drama are played out. The city God chose, where He set His name, where His Son was crucified and rose, is the place to which He returns and from which He will…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10092. Wars and rumours of wars have marked every generation since Jesus spoke the phrase, and every generation has been tempted to read its own headlines as the final act. I have lost count of the conversations that begin with a news alert and end with the question, is this it? The question is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10091. The temple in prophecy is one of those threads that, once you see it, runs through the whole Bible and refuses to be tidied away. It begins with a tent in a desert, becomes Solomon’s building, is destroyed and rebuilt, is destroyed again by Roman armies, and then reappears in passages describing events…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10090. Deliverance from wrath is not a secondary curiosity in eschatology. It goes to the heart of what the Church is promised and, in my view, to the heart of the pretribulational case. If God has told His people that they will not face the coming outpouring of judgement, then the timing of the…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10089. The wrath of God during the Tribulation is the most sobering subject in prophetic Scripture, and it is the one modern Christians are least comfortable discussing. We would rather speak of love, and rightly, until we notice that the Bible sees no contradiction between the two. Revelation describes a period in which the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10088. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse are among the most recognisable images in Scripture, borrowed by artists and novelists who have never opened Revelation. They appear as the Lamb opens the first four of seven seals, and each opening sends out a rider whose colour and equipment tell you what he brings. Conquest,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10087. The one taken one left saying in Matthew 24:40-41 must be among the most quoted prophetic verses in popular Christianity. It has been printed on bumper stickers, set to music and used as the backbone of novels and films. Almost everyone who quotes it assumes that being taken means being caught up to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10086. What happens to children at the rapture is one of the questions I am asked most often by parents, and it is almost never asked out of curiosity. It is asked with a catch in the voice, usually late in a conversation, by a mother or father who has just realised what the…