Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 all. When the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time He spoke of that house and His name being there for ever, and centuries…
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: 6 minutesQuestion 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 one of the clearest windows we have into the purpose of that terrible period. When I speak of Jacob’s trouble I mean the seven-year Tribulation…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 Antichrist that is given a kind of life and demands the worship of the entire world. When I speak of the image of the beast…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 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 end times. When I speak of the false prophet I mean the second beast of Revelation 13, who rises to promote the worship of the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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. When I speak of the times of the Gentiles I mean a period of Gentile political domination over Jerusalem and Israel, while the fullness of…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 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 and a doomed merchant city in the next. When I speak of Babylon in Revelation I mean the great world system of rebellion against God,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 Tribulation. Where the seal judgements and the trumpet judgements struck in part, the bowl judgements fall in full, for in them the wrath of God…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 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 severity. When seven angels sound seven trumpets, one after another, the natural world is struck with devastating blows, and I want to take the trumpet…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 sequence. When the Lamb breaks the seven seals of the scroll, wave after wave of judgement is released, and I want to walk through the…