Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 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 the Old Testament, most of the Gospels’ final discourses, and the entire book of Revelation are prophetic material, and yet many believers approach these pages…
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: 9 minutesQuestion 1021. How you interpret the book of Revelation shapes an enormous amount of what you go on to believe about the last days, and it is worth being honest from the very outset that faithful, Bible-believing Christians have read this book in several quite different ways across church history. I hold a futurist, literal-grammatical-historical…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4057. The Spirit and resurrection are linked in Scripture far more tightly than most Christians realise, and once you see the connection you will not read Romans 8 the same way again. It is easy to speak of the resurrection purely in terms of God’s raw power, and leave the Holy Spirit as a…
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: 3 minutesQuestion 11026 A pastor who stops reading is a pastor who stops growing, and a pastor who stops growing will eventually stop feeding his congregation well. The ministry demands constant study, reflection, and the sharpening that comes from engaging with minds greater than your own. What follows is not an exhaustive list but a carefully…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10005 The covenant God made with Abraham in Genesis 12, 15, and 17 is one of the most consequential moments in the entire biblical narrative. Everything that follows in the story of redemption, from the formation of Israel to the coming of Christ to the shape of the prophetic future, is connected to what…