Eschatology (End Times)

Question 10000. Biblical eschatology is the study of last things, and it is far more than a hobby for prophecy enthusiasts with wall charts. The word comes from two Greek ...

Question 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 ...

Question 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 ...

Question 1164. Interpreting biblical prophecy rightly is, I think, one of the more neglected disciplines in the church today, and one of the most abused outside it. Whole sections of ...

Question 10108. When Paul writes that all Israel will be saved at Romans 11:26, I understand him to mean the ethnic descendants of Jacob who are physically alive at the ...

Question 10065. Is modern Israel prophetically significant? My answer is a carefully qualified yes. I believe the return of Jewish people to the land, and the existence of a Jewish ...

Question 10008. The Land covenant of Deuteronomy 29-30 is the least known of Israel's great covenants, and the old label "Palestinian covenant" has not helped it, since the covenant concerns ...

Question 10197. There will be unbelievers who die during the thousand year reign of Jesus, and Scripture is not silent about them. That surprises people, because we tend to imagine ...

Question 10002. The seven dispensations of the classic dispensational scheme raise an immediate question for anyone new to this subject: does the Bible actually number them, or is seven a ...

Question 10005. The Abrahamic covenant is the backbone of biblical eschatology, and I choose the word backbone deliberately: remove it and the entire prophetic skeleton collapses into a heap of ...

Question 10030. The two witnesses of Revelation 11 are among the most vivid figures in all of prophecy, two men clothed in sackcloth who prophesy in Jerusalem during the Tribulation, ...

Question 10031. The abomination of desolation is a phrase that comes straight from the prophet Daniel and is picked up by Jesus Himself, and it describes a supreme act of ...

Question 10027. The pre-wrath rapture view is a more recent proposal that places the catching away of the Church late in the Tribulation, after most of it has run but ...

Question 10028. The partial rapture theory teaches that only those believers who are watchful, spiritual and ready will be caught up when Jesus comes, while carnal or careless Christians are ...

Question 10024. The pretribulational rapture is the view I hold, and it is simply this: Jesus will catch His Church up to Himself before the seven-year Tribulation begins, not partway ...

Question 10025. The midtribulation rapture is the view that Jesus will catch the Church up to Himself not before the Tribulation and not at its end, but at its midpoint, ...

Question 10022. Critics love to say that the rapture is a nineteenth-century invention, cooked up in a British parlour and unknown to the church before then. It is a confident ...

Question 10023. The second coming of Jesus and the rapture of the Church are often folded into a single event, and that folding causes more confusion in prophecy than almost ...

Question 10084. The man of lawlessness is Paul's name for the final world ruler who will dominate the Tribulation period, oppose God openly, and be destroyed by the appearing of ...

Question 10085. A falling away must come before the day of the Lord, according to Paul, and Christians have argued about what he meant ever since. Some read it as ...

Question 10083. A restraining force is at work in the world right now, holding back the emergence of the most evil man who will ever live. That is the claim ...

Question 10080. Date setting has a long and embarrassing history in the church, and it keeps coming back because the longing underneath it is real. We want the Lord to ...

Question 10081. The doctrine of imminence is one of those phrases that sounds like seminary furniture until you notice how much of your life it touches. Put simply, it means ...

Question 10079. Can we know when Jesus will return? The short answer is no, and it comes from His own lips rather than from any caution of mine. "But concerning ...

Question 10032. The seal judgements in Revelation are the first of three great series of judgements that fall upon the earth during the Tribulation, and they open the whole terrible ...

Question 10034. The bowl judgements in Revelation, sometimes called the vial judgements in older translations, are the last and most severe of the three great series of judgements in the ...

Question 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 ...

Question 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 ...

Question 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 ...

Question 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 ...

Question 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 ...

Question 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 ...

Question 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 ...

Question 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 ...

Question 10136. The preterist view holds that most or all of biblical prophecy was fulfilled in the first century, chiefly in the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the ...

Question 10137. The futurist view holds that the visions of Revelation from chapter 4 onwards describe events still to come, and that the great bulk of unfulfilled biblical prophecy will ...

Question 10153. The blessed hope is one of those expressions that has been said so often in Christian circles that it can slide past the ear without registering. Paul used ...

Question 10132. The eternal state follows the Millennium, and confusing the two accounts for a remarkable number of muddles in popular teaching about the future. They are consecutive periods with ...

Question 10148. The seven churches of Revelation 2 and 3 are among the most searching pages in the New Testament, and also among the most misused. Some readers treat them ...

Question 10144. Inaugurated eschatology is the most widely held framework in evangelical scholarship today, and if you have read almost any modern commentary on the Gospels you have met it ...

Question 10145. There is an eschatological tension running through the New Testament that trips up almost every new reader of the Bible sooner or later. You are told you have ...

Question 10142. Is God's kingdom something I am living in now, or something I am waiting for? I get asked that more often than you might think, usually by someone ...

Question 10143. Realised eschatology is a phrase you will almost never hear from a pulpit and almost always hear in a lecture theatre, yet its influence has quietly reached a ...

Question 10198. Millennial worship is described in more detail than most Christians realise, and the details are the reason the subject causes trouble. Ezekiel spends nine chapters on a temple, ...

Question 10199. Elam in prophecy is one of those subjects where careful reading and confident speculation part company very quickly. The territory sits in what is now south western Iran, ...

Question 10196. The new covenant is the promise God made through Jeremiah that He would write His law on the heart, forgive iniquity and remember sin no more, and that ...

Question 10162. Modern Israel is the one nation on earth whose reappearance on the map sends people back to their Bibles, and 14 May 1948 is the date that did ...

Question 10195. The judgement of fallen angels does not happen all at once, and that is what makes the question worth asking carefully. Scripture describes some spirits already confined, others ...

Question 10192. The millennial rebellion is one of the strangest paragraphs in the Bible, and one of the most searching. Jesus has reigned in person from Jerusalem for a thousand ...

Question 10193. Scripture does appear to teach that millennial authority will not be identical for every believer, and that what we do with what we have been given now has ...

Question 10009. Replacement theology, the teaching that the Church has permanently superseded Israel in God's purposes and inherited her promises in spiritualised form, is one of the oldest and, I ...

Question 10187. Every few months somebody writes to me convinced that the preterist view has settled the whole question, and that the book of Revelation describes events which came and ...

Question 10140. The kingdom of God is one of those phrases I hear used constantly and defined almost never. It turns up in prayers, in hymns, on conference banners and ...

Question 10170. A continuous Jewish presence in the land of Israel is one of those historical facts that almost everybody in the modern debate assumes away. The popular story says ...

Question 10007. The New Covenant is announced in Jeremiah with a named addressee, "the house of Israel and the house of Judah," and yet the Lord Jesus lifted the cup ...

Question 10004. Progressive dispensationalism is the name of a revision movement that arose among dispensational scholars in the late twentieth century, and if you have heard the term and wondered ...

Question 10006. The Davidic covenant is God's sworn commitment that a descendant of David will sit on David's throne for ever, and I want to show you why this promise, ...

Question 10001. Dispensational theology is one of the most misrepresented frameworks in the modern church, dismissed by critics who have rarely read its careful exponents and caricatured as a novelty ...

Question 10003. Covenant theology and dispensational theology are the two great rival frameworks by which evangelical Christians organise the storyline of Scripture, and the difference between them is not a ...

Question 10026. The posttribulation rapture is the view that the Church will pass through the entire seven-year Tribulation and be caught up only at its very end, meeting the returning ...

Question 10033. The trumpet judgements in Revelation are the second great series of judgements that fall on the earth during the Tribulation, following the seal judgements and exceeding them in ...

Question 10021. The phrase the last days stirs up more confusion than almost any other in Christian conversation, because people reach for it every time an earthquake or a war ...

Why we should believe in the 'Rapture' (from the Latin for 'caught up') ...

Question 10050.Premillennialism is the view that Jesus will return before the thousand-year reign described in Revelation 20, coming in glory to establish His kingdom on the earth in person. The ...

Question 10068. The covenants with Israel are the backbone of biblical prophecy, and if you get them right a great deal else falls into place. There are five of them, ...

Question 10067. Does God still have a plan for Israel? Yes, and I hold that with more confidence than almost anything else I teach about prophecy, because Paul devotes three ...

Question 10096. Gog and Magog appear in two very different places in Scripture, and a great deal of confusion comes from assuming they must be the same event. Ezekiel devotes ...

Question 10127. Questions about memory in heaven usually arrive from one of two directions. Either somebody desperately hopes they will remember the people they have loved, or somebody desperately hopes ...

Question 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 ...

Question 10125. When Revelation announces that God will dwell with His people, it is not introducing a new idea at the end of the Bible. It is closing a circle ...

Question 10126. Will we eat and drink in heaven? On the evidence of Scripture I think the answer is yes, and I say that with more confidence than you might ...

Question 10123. John writes that there will be no more sea on the new earth, and for anyone who loves the coast that sounds less like a promise and more ...

Question 10124. There is no temple in the New Jerusalem because the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple, and once you grasp what a temple was ...

Question 10122. The prison of Tartarus is named exactly once in the whole Bible, in a single verb tucked into 2 Peter 2:4, and it refers to the place where ...

Question 10119. Sheol and Hades are the Old and New Testament words for the realm of the dead, and they cover the same ground. Sheol is the Hebrew term, used ...

Question 10120. The realm of Hades is the New Testament word for the place where the dead are held between dying and rising, and it is not the same thing ...

Question 10138. The historicist view reads Revelation as a continuous panorama of church history, unrolling from the apostle's own day through to the return of Jesus, with each seal, trumpet ...

Question 10118. Abraham's bosom is the expression used in Luke 16 for the place of comfort where the righteous dead waited before the resurrection of Jesus. The ESV renders it ...

Question 10131. The promise that we will reign with Christ is one of the most repeated and least discussed statements in the New Testament. Paul says it, Revelation says it ...

Question 10133. Whether the new earth is this present planet purged and transformed, or a fresh creation raised in its place, is one of the questions I refuse to settle ...

Question 10129. The river of life is the stream John sees flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the ...

Question 10130. The tree of life in Revelation 22 stands on both banks of the river that flows from the throne, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every ...

Question 10128. How there can be joy in heaven while someone we loved is not there is, to my mind, the hardest question in the whole field of last things, ...

Question 10151. Every human being who has ever lived will be raised from the dead, the just and unjust alike, and that is one of the least disputed teachings in ...

Question 10152. Maranatha appears once in the New Testament, tucked into the closing lines of a long and often difficult letter, and it is one of the oldest Christian prayers ...

Question 10149. The book of life appears from the Pentateuch to the final chapters of Revelation, and it stands for something of enormous comfort and enormous seriousness at the same ...

Question 10150. The final judgement in Revelation 20 is described with a terrible economy of words. A great white throne, earth and sky fleeing away, the dead standing before it, ...

Question 10147. Who wrote the book of Revelation is not a question for specialists only, because the authority of the last book in our Bible is bound up with the ...

Question 10163. The fig tree in Matthew 24 has carried more prophetic weight over the last seventy years than almost any other image in the Gospels, and I think it ...

Question 10164. This generation will not pass away until all these things take place. That sentence, spoken by Jesus on the Mount of Olives, has been called the most difficult ...

Question 10158. Biblical typology is the recognition that God built patterns into the earlier stages of redemptive history which anticipate what He would later do in Jesus and in the ...

Question 10139. The idealist view treats Revelation not as a description of particular events, past or future, but as a symbolic portrayal of the ongoing conflict between good and evil ...

Question 10154. Practical eschatology is not a phrase you will find in Scripture, but it describes something the New Testament does constantly: it tells us about the future and then ...

Question 10157. Double fulfilment, often called the law of double reference, is the observation that a single prophetic passage can speak to a near situation in the prophet's own day ...

Question 10121. The fire of Gehenna is the image Jesus reached for whenever He spoke about final judgement, and it comes from a real valley on the southern edge of ...

Question 10045.The great tribulation is the second half of the seven-year tribulation, the final three and a half years of unequalled distress that fall upon the earth just before Jesus ...

Question 10062. What will we do in heaven? I suspect the reason so many Christians secretly dread the question is that the picture they inherited involves an endless church service ...

Question 10043.When people ask me about rapture timing, they usually mean one of two very different questions, and I try to separate them straight away so we do not talk ...

Question 10044.The tribulation period is a future span of seven years in which God pours out judgement on a rebellious world and resumes His unfinished dealings with the nation of ...

Question 10060. The new earth is where the Bible actually ends, and I think that surprises a great many Christians. We have been handed a picture of eternity that involves ...

Question 10058.Annihilationism is the view that the lost are not punished for ever but are finally destroyed and cease to exist altogether, so that hell ends in extinction rather than ...

Question 10059.Universalism is the belief that in the end every human being will be saved, so that hell is either empty, temporary, or non-existent, and all people are finally reconciled ...

Question 10056.Hell is the final place of conscious, righteous punishment for those who die apart from Christ, the lake of fire into which the unsaved are cast after the last ...

Question 10057.Is hell eternal? I believe the Bible teaches that eternal punishment is real and truly unending, and I hold that conviction with sorrow rather than satisfaction, because it is ...

Question 10054.The Great White Throne is the final judgment of the unsaved dead, described in Revelation 20, when they stand before God at the end of the millennium to be ...

Question 10051.Amillennialism is the view that there will be no literal thousand-year reign of Christ upon the earth, and that the millennium of Revelation 20 is a symbolic description of ...

Question 10052.Postmillennialism is the view that the gospel will gradually triumph across the world, ushering in a long golden age of righteousness and peace, after which Jesus finally returns at ...

Question 10102. When believers die they go immediately into the conscious presence of the Lord Jesus. There is no interval of unconsciousness, no holding area, no process of purification and ...

Question 10101. The intermediate state is the condition of a person between the moment of death and the resurrection of the body, and Scripture presents it as conscious, personal and, ...

Question 10100. The lake of fire is the final and permanent place of judgement for Satan, for the beast and the false prophet, and for every person whose name is ...

Question 10098. If the first resurrection is the raising of the blessed, the second resurrection is its opposite number. It is the raising of everyone who has died without saving ...

Question 10099. The second death is Revelation's name for the final state of everyone who dies without saving faith in Jesus. The phrase appears four times, all in that one ...

Question 10078. The Olivet Discourse is the sermon Jesus preached on the Mount of Olives during the last week of His earthly ministry, recorded in Matthew 24 and 25, Mark ...

Question 10097. The first resurrection is named only once in Scripture, in Revelation 20, and yet it carries an enormous weight of meaning. John sees those who had been beheaded ...

Question 10076. The role of Israel during the tribulation is central rather than incidental. That seven-year period is not primarily about the nations, the beast or even the judgements. Jeremiah ...

Question 10077. The birth pains Jesus mentions in Matthew 24 are the opening troubles of the end times: false messiahs, wars and rumours of wars, famines and earthquakes in various ...

Question 10074. What happens to those who take the mark of the beast? Revelation gives an answer of terrible clarity, and it is the most severe warning in the book ...

Question 10075. Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy is, to my mind, the single most remarkable predictive passage in the Old Testament. In four verses Gabriel gives Daniel a measured period of ...

Question 10073. What signs precede Christ's return? The answer depends entirely on which return you mean, and that is not a piece of clever footwork. Scripture describes the Lord coming ...

Question 10071. The battle of Armageddon is the gathering of the armies of the world against Jerusalem at the end of the tribulation period, and its abrupt conclusion when Jesus ...

Question 10072. The Day of the Lord is the Bible's name for that extended period when God steps out of the shadows and deals directly with human sin, rescues His ...

Question 10048.The Second Coming is the visible, glorious and physical return of Jesus to the earth to defeat His enemies, rescue Israel, and reign as King. When I speak of ...

Question 10049.The millennial kingdom is the literal, thousand-year reign of Jesus on the earth that follows His Second Coming, when He rules the nations from the throne of David in ...

Question 10047.The mark of the beast is a coming token of allegiance to the Antichrist, imposed during the tribulation so that no one may buy or sell without it. I ...

Question 10070. Who are the 144,000 in Revelation? John tells us plainly enough: they are sealed servants of God drawn from the twelve tribes of Israel, twelve thousand from each, ...

Question 10046.The Antichrist is a coming world ruler who will oppose God, deceive the nations, persecute the saints, and set himself up as an object of worship during the tribulation ...

Question 10064. Are there degrees of punishment in hell? This is one of the heaviest questions I am ever asked, and I want to handle it with the seriousness it ...

Question 10069. Will a third temple be rebuilt in Jerusalem? I believe the answer is yes, and not because of anything in the newspapers. Several prophecies about the last days ...

Question 10175. Is America Mystery Babylon? The question has sold a remarkable number of books, and it surfaces in every prophecy conference I have ever heard about. The woman of ...

Question 10063. Are there degrees of reward in heaven? Scripture answers yes, and it does so often enough that I am always a little surprised how rarely the subject is ...

Question 10039. The time of Jacob's trouble is a phrase from the prophet Jeremiah that describes the coming Tribulation as it falls upon the nation of Israel, and it is ...

Question 10040.I am often asked whether tribulation salvation is possible, and the short answer I give is a glad and immediate yes. When the Church has been caught up and ...

Question 10037. The false prophet is the third figure in the unholy trinity of the Tribulation, alongside Satan and the Antichrist, and he is the great religious deceiver of the ...

Question 10038. The image of the beast is one of the strangest and most sinister objects in the whole book of Revelation, an idol set up in honour of the ...

Question 09038. Ask most Christians how the church relates to the kingdom of God and you will get a puzzled pause. The two terms are used almost interchangeably in ordinary ...

Question 60071. Christian Zionism has become a term of abuse in a good deal of Christian writing, used to describe a caricature that almost nobody actually holds. Before I defend ...

Question 10103. Soul sleep is the teaching that the dead, believers included, pass into a state of complete unconsciousness at death and know nothing at all until they are raised ...

Question 08080 Satan and Antichrist are not the same being, and confusing them is one of the commonest mistakes in popular prophecy teaching. One is a fallen angelic creature with ...

Question 08081 The False Prophet is the least discussed of the three figures who dominate Revelation 13, and that is a pity, because his role explains a great deal about ...

Question 08085 Demonic judgement is a subject Scripture treats with more restraint than most of us would like. We are told plainly that fallen angels face a reckoning, and we ...

Question 08082 The great chain of Revelation 20 is one of those details that decides far more than it appears to. How you read it determines whether you place the ...

Question 08083 Satan's release at the end of the thousand years is one of the strangest turns in the whole prophetic landscape, and I understand why people stumble over it ...

Question 08140. Paul tells the Corinthians that we are to judge angels, and from that single clause a whole industry has grown up teaching that believers hold authority over angels ...

Question 08124. The future of Satan is one of the few subjects on which Scripture is entirely unambiguous. There is no mystery about the outcome, no suspense, and no possibility ...

Question 10156. Satan's final defeat is described in Scripture with a clarity that leaves nothing to the imagination and no room for appeal. He is not an eternal rival to ...

Question 10155. The role of angels in the end times is far larger than most Christians realise, and Revelation is where it becomes impossible to miss. The role of angels ...

Question 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 ...

Question 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, ...

Question 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 ...

Question 10117. The biblical paradise is the place of God's presence, pictured as a garden, where the righteous dead are at rest and where the tree of life stands. The ...

Question 10114. The beatific vision is the theological term for the promise that the redeemed will see God face to face, and that this seeing will be the source of ...

Question 10116. Scripture says nothing directly about near-death experiences as a category, and that silence is itself instructive. What the Bible gives us instead is a settled account of what ...

Question 10111. Scripture names five heavenly crowns promised to believers: the imperishable crown, the crown of rejoicing, the crown of righteousness, the crown of life and the crown of glory ...

Question 10113. We will have free will in heaven, and we will have far more of it than we do now, but we will never sin. Those two statements only ...

Question 10112. The marriage supper of the Lamb is the wedding feast celebrating the union of Jesus and his church, announced in Revelation 19 immediately before he returns in glory ...

Question 10110. The Bema seat is the judgement seat of Christ, where believers will stand to have their service assessed and rewarded. It is not a trial to determine whether ...

Question 10105. The New Jerusalem is the city that God has prepared for his people, described at length in Revelation 21 and 22, coming down out of heaven from God ...

Question 10107. There will be no marriage in heaven in the sense of new marriages being contracted or existing ones continuing as legal and exclusive unions. Jesus said so plainly, ...

Question 10104. Will there be animals in heaven and on the new earth? I think the biblical answer is yes, and I say that not to be sentimental but because ...

Question 10016. Will ethnic Israel be saved? I mean the question exactly as it sounds: not whether individual Jewish people can come to faith today, which is happening continually, but ...

Question 10017. "All Israel will be saved" is one of the most argued-over clauses in the New Testament, and no wonder: five Greek words carry the weight of the whole ...

Question 10018. The partial hardening of Israel has a terminus, and Paul names it with a phrase that repays careful study: "until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in" ...

Question 10200. The intermediate state is the condition of a human being between the moment of death and the morning of resurrection, and it is one of the questions people ...

Question 8017. Abaddon and Apollyon are two names for a single figure, and Revelation 9:11 gives us both because John is writing for readers in two languages. He is called ...

Question 8018. The four angels bound at the great river Euphrates appear in Revelation 9:14 and 15, and the detail that stops most readers is not the binding but the ...

Question 10201. Almost every picture in Revelation is borrowed prophetic imagery, and once you see that, the book stops feeling like a code and starts behaving like a conclusion. Estimates ...

Question 10011. The return of Jesus is the most asked-about event in Christian teaching, and the question people actually put to me is nearly always the same one the disciples ...

Question 10012. What happens when Jesus returns is mapped in Scripture with far more detail than most Christians suspect, and the map matters, because vagueness about the programme produces confusion ...

Question 10202. The last trumpet of 1 Corinthians 15:52 is regularly identified with the seventh trumpet of Revelation 11, and that identification is the single strongest argument the posttribulational position ...

Question 10029. Are the Jewish people still God's chosen people, or did their election end when the nation rejected its Messiah? I answer without hesitation that Israel remains God's chosen ...

Question 10169. The location of heaven has been a live question ever since Yuri Gagarin came back from orbit and reported that he had not seen God up there. It ...

Question 10167. Can those in heaven see what is happening down here? It is one of the most frequently asked questions in any pastoral ministry, and it is almost never ...

Question 10168. The location of hell is one of those questions that sounds like idle curiosity and usually is not. People ask it because they want to know whether hell ...

Question 10146. Whenever a new invention arrives, some part of the Christian world immediately maps it onto prophecy, and modern technology has been identified as the fulfilment of end-times passages ...

Question 10166. A single world government has been the dream of tyrants and idealists for as long as there have been maps, and Scripture tells us that in the end ...

Question 10109. The fear of eternal boredom is one of the most common reasons people quietly decide they do not want heaven, and I have some sympathy with them, because ...

Question 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 ...

Question 10106. The Bible teaches that a one world religion will exist during the Tribulation, that it will centre on the worship of the beast and be enforced by the ...

Question 10053.The Holy Spirit is deeply and actively at work all through the end times, restraining evil, drawing sinners to Christ, and empowering bold witness right up to the return ...

Question 10082. The Holy Spirit will not be removed from the earth during the Tribulation, and I want to say that at the outset because few end times questions produce ...

Question 10036. The times of the Gentiles and the fullness of the Gentiles sound almost identical, and they are constantly confused, yet they describe two quite different things in Scripture ...

Question 10010. The number 666 has escaped the book of Revelation and taken up residence in horror films, heavy metal albums, and internet conspiracy theories, which makes it one of ...

Question 10014. The biblical covenants are the load-bearing walls of eschatology, and once you see how they connect, end-times doctrine stops being a heap of curiosities, beasts here, trumpets there, ...

Question 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 ...

Question 10066. Replacement theology is the view that the Church has taken Israel's place in the purposes of God, so that the promises made to the nation now belong to ...

Question 10115. The doctrine of purgatory teaches that those who die in a state of grace but with unforgiven venial sins, or with temporal punishment still owing, undergo a purifying ...

Question 2076. Is God in hell? The question of God in hell sounds like a strange question, almost a trick, but I get asked it seriously and often, usually by ...

Question 5026. Resurrection bodies are the great forgotten hope of the Christian faith. Ask the average believer what happens after death and you will hear about souls going to heaven, ...

Question 10013. The Church and Israel are the two peoples at the centre of God's dealings with humanity, and whether you distinguish them or merge them will quietly determine your ...

Question 10061. Will we recognise each other in heaven? I am asked this at gravesides more than anywhere else, usually by someone who has just watched a coffin lowered and ...

Question 10174. The tribe of Dan is missing from the list of sealed tribes in Revelation 7, and once you notice it you cannot unnotice it. Twelve tribes are named, ...

Question 10055.Heaven is the dwelling place of God, the present home of believers who have died, and the sure hope of every soul who trusts in Jesus. When people ask ...

Question 3062. The other resurrections of the Bible are far less famous than the empty tomb, but they are worth knowing well: nine raisings by my count, spread from the ...

Question 10041.Sceptics love to wave 1 Kings 9 in my face and claim the temple promise God made to Solomon collapsed in ruins, so the Bible cannot be trusted after ...

Question 2060. Why hell exists is one of the hardest questions people bring to me, and it deserves a careful, honest answer rather than either a dismissive dodge or a ...

Question 10035. Babylon in Revelation is one of the richest and most debated images in the whole book, a figure that appears as a gorgeously dressed prostitute in one chapter ...