Biblical prophecy and the last days—the rapture, tribulation, second coming, millennium, and final judgment.
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1122. The amillennial hermeneutic is the method of reading Scripture, particularly Revelation 20, that leads a great many sincere and careful Christians to conclude there is no future, earthly, thousand year reign of Jesus. I want to walk through how that method actually works, because it is not laziness or unbelief that produces amillennialism….
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1121. The pretribulational rapture is not, as some of its critics sometimes suggest, a doctrine simply invented out of thin air by nineteenth-century prophecy teachers with no genuine textual foundation behind it. It rests on a specific reading of specific texts, held together by a consistent, literal-grammatical-historical hermeneutic applied to prophecy the same way…
Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 1042. Dispensational interpretation is the framework I use to make sense of some genuinely puzzling features of the Bible that I meet almost every week in pastoral ministry. Why did God command animal sacrifices under the Old Testament and then stop requiring them? Why are some commands given specifically to Israel that plainly do…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 4058. The Spirit in the Millennium is a subject Scripture addresses more directly, and more beautifully, than most believers realise, and I want to trace what the Old and New Testaments actually promise about this coming era rather than leaving the question in vague, general terms. Understanding the Spirit’s role in the eternal state…
Reading Time: 17 minutesQuestion 7199. If Jesus fulfilled the law, why did Paul still offer temple sacrifices in Acts 21, why will sacrifices return in the millennial temple, and why do certain things carry on from one age to the next? The question of temple sacrifices after the cross is one of the genuinely hard knots in Scripture,…
Reading Time: 16 minutesQuestion 10203. Let me tell you plainly why dispensationalism matters so much to me, because it is not a dry label that I wear but a way of reading the whole Bible that has shaped how I see God, how I read history, and where I rest my hope. Dispensationalism is, at its simplest, the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy we should believe in the ‘Rapture’ (from the Latin for ‘caught up’)
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…
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…
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…