Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 Israel. It is the darkest stretch of history still to come, and Jesus Himself said there has never been anything like it and never…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 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 sacrilege that marks the turning point of the Tribulation. When I speak of the abomination of desolation I mean the moment the Antichrist desecrates the…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1160. Aramaic passages appear in the Old Testament at a handful of specific points, and the first time someone notices this in Daniel or Ezra, they usually assume it is a copying error rather than a deliberate feature of the text. It is not an error. Understanding why these Aramaic sections are there tells…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3054. Is Jesus Michael the archangel? If you have ever spent an hour on the doorstep with Jehovah’s Witnesses, you will have met this claim, for it is a load-bearing wall of Watchtower theology: the Son, they teach, is really Michael, the first and greatest created being. The idea also had a home in…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1013. The phrase apocalyptic literature turns up constantly in biblical studies, and if you do not understand what it means you will struggle to read whole stretches of the Bible well. It is not a scary word, though the imagery it covers can certainly be vivid. It simply names a particular way of writing…