Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10026 Posttribulationism is the view that the Church will remain on earth throughout the entire seven-year Tribulation period and be raptured at its conclusion, immediately before or simultaneously with the Second Coming of Christ to establish His kingdom. It is historically the most widely held view in the broader church and is advocated by…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10050 Premillennialism is the view that Jesus will return physically to earth before (pre-) establishing a literal thousand-year (millennium) reign on earth. This position holds that the present age will end with Jesus’ second coming, at which point He will bind Satan, resurrect believers, and establish His kingdom centred in Jerusalem. This belief has…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10096 The names Gog and Magog appear in two very different contexts in Scripture: the prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39 and the brief but dramatic reference in Revelation 20:8. Whether these refer to the same event, the same entities, or something else entirely has been debated by careful interpreters for centuries. The question deserves a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10095 The Millennium is not the final chapter in God’s redemptive story. A thousand years of Christ’s righteous rule on earth, remarkable as that period will be, gives way to a concluding series of events that brings the present created order to its end and ushers in the eternal state. What happens at the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10138 Historicism is one of the four major approaches to interpreting the book of Revelation, and for many centuries it was the dominant Protestant reading. It holds that the visions of Revelation describe the broad sweep of church history from the apostolic age to the Second Coming, with the various symbols corresponding to specific…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10164 Few sayings of Jesus have generated more interpretive debate than His statement in Matthew 24:34: “Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.” Critics have used it to argue that Jesus was mistaken about the timing of His return. Others have used it as…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10158 Typology is one of the most important interpretive tools for understanding how the Old and New Testaments relate to one another. It is the recognition that God embedded patterns, persons, events, and institutions within the earlier stages of redemptive history that foreshadow and anticipate what He would later accomplish in Christ and in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10157 One of the most important principles for understanding biblical prophecy is the law of double reference, sometimes called prophetic double fulfilment. This is the observation that a single prophetic passage may address both a near-historical situation and a far-future eschatological reality, with the nearer event serving as a partial fulfilment or preview of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10044 The Tribulation is a specific seven-year period of God’s judgement upon the earth that will occur after the rapture of the Church and before the Second Coming of Jesus. It’s a time unlike any other in human history, marked by unprecedented suffering, supernatural judgements, and the rise of the Antichrist. Understanding the Tribulation…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10054 The Great White Throne judgement is the final judgement of all unbelievers at the end of history. Unlike the judgement seat of Christ, which evaluates believers for rewards, the Great White Throne determines the degree of punishment for those who rejected Jesus. This judgement occurs after the millennium, just before the eternal state…