What is the rapture?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy we should believe in the ‘Rapture’ (from the Latin for ‘caught up’)
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When we say ‘all Israel will be saved’ what do we mean?
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10108 Romans 11:26 contains one of the most discussed phrases in eschatological theology: “And in this way all Israel will be saved.” The question of who exactly is included in this “all Israel,” and the mechanism by which their salvation occurs, requires careful attention to the surrounding context, the consistent biblical pattern of how…
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What happens to unbelievers who die during the Millennium?
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10197 The Millennium is a period of unprecedented blessing, but it is not a period in which death is absent or sin is impossible. Isaiah 65:20 indicates that death will still occur, though under radically different conditions. The natural question follows: when an unbeliever dies during the Millennium, what happens to them? Scripture does…
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Is modern Israel prophetically significant?
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10065 The re-establishment of the nation of Israel in 1948 is one of the most significant prophetic events in modern history. After nearly 2,000 years of dispersion, the Jewish people have returned to their ancient homeland exactly as the Old Testament prophets predicted. This restoration points towards the fulfilment of God’s remaining promises to…
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What is the Abrahamic covenant and why is it significant for eschatology?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10005 The covenant God made with Abraham in Genesis 12, 15, and 17 is one of the most consequential moments in the entire biblical narrative. Everything that follows in the story of redemption, from the formation of Israel to the coming of Christ to the shape of the prophetic future, is connected to what…
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What is the Land (Palestinian) covenant?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10008 The covenant described in Deuteronomy 29–30 is sometimes called the Palestinian covenant, though this name is increasingly recognised as problematic, since the term “Palestine” was not applied to the land until the Roman emperor Hadrian renamed the province in the second century AD as a deliberate insult to the Jewish people. A more…
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How many dispensations are there in the Bible?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10002 Once the basic principle of dispensationalism is understood, the next question follows naturally: how many dispensations does the Bible actually describe? The answer requires some care, because the number of dispensations is not the point of dispensational theology. The point is the underlying principle that God has governed His relationship with humanity through…
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Who are the two witnesses in Revelation 11?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10030 Revelation 11 introduces two unnamed figures who prophesy for 1,260 days during the Tribulation, are killed by the Beast, lie unburied in the streets of Jerusalem, and are then raised and taken to heaven in the sight of their enemies. Their identity has been debated since the earliest centuries of the church, and…
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What is the abomination of desolation?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10031 The abomination of desolation is one of the most significant prophetic markers in all of Scripture. Jesus Himself identified it as the critical warning sign for those living during the Tribulation, and He expected His hearers to understand it by reference to the prophet Daniel. The phrase links Old Testament prophecy, intertestamental history,…
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What is the pre-wrath rapture view?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10027 The pre-wrath rapture view is a relatively recent entry into the eschatological debate, developed most fully by Marvin Rosenthal in his 1990 book The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church and further defended by Robert Van Kampen. It attempts to chart a middle course between pretribulationism and posttribulationism, arguing that the Rapture occurs during…