Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 Jerusalem. When people ask me what the millennium actually is, this is the very heart of my answer to them. It is a real,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 the Second Coming I mean something quite specific and utterly certain, an event as real and bodily as the first coming in Bethlehem long…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 want to handle this subject carefully, because few themes in prophecy have attracted more wild speculation and more needless fear than the mark of…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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. When people ask me who he is, they usually want a name, and that is exactly the one thing I cannot and will not…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 returns in glory. Jesus Himself gave the period its name in the Olivet Discourse, and the term has stuck fast ever since. When I…
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: 6 minutesQuestion 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 past each other. The first is when in the prophetic calendar the rapture falls, whether before, during or after the tribulation. The second is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhy we should believe in the ‘Rapture’ (from the Latin for ‘caught up’)
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 the door of this present age of grace seems to slam shut, Scripture does not describe an empty earth abandoned to judgement and left…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10175 One popular interpretation in some prophetic circles identifies the United States of America as “Mystery Babylon” described in Revelation 17-18. This theory has gained considerable traction, especially among American Christians concerned about their nation’s moral decline and cultural influence. However, when we examine Scripture carefully, allowing the Bible to interpret itself, this identification…