Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10144 Inaugurated eschatology is a term that attempts to hold together two truths that Scripture clearly teaches: the kingdom of God has genuinely arrived, and the kingdom of God has not yet been fully established. As a description of what the New Testament actually says, it captures something important. As a theological framework, however,…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10145 One of the most important patterns running through the New Testament is the way in which certain realities are described as both present and future at the same time. Salvation is something the believer possesses now and yet awaits in its fullness. The kingdom of God has arrived and yet is still coming….
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10143 The term “realised eschatology” is one that many Christians will never encounter in the pulpit but which has profoundly shaped how the New Testament is read in academic theology. It refers to the idea that the eschatological promises of Scripture have already been fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, with…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10162 On 14 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel, and within minutes the new nation was recognised by the United States. For the student of biblical prophecy, this was not simply a geopolitical event. It was the most significant prophetic development in nearly two thousand years, directly connected…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10004 Within the dispensational family, not everyone reads the details in quite the same way. Progressive dispensationalism is a more recent development within the tradition, associated particularly with scholars such as Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock, and it represents a conscious modification of certain features of classical dispensationalism while retaining others. Understanding what progressive…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10003 Dispensational theology and covenant theology represent two of the most influential frameworks for reading the Bible as a unified whole. Both are held by genuine, committed Christians who affirm the authority of Scripture, the deity of Christ, and the gospel of grace. The differences between them are real and consequential, particularly in how…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10033 The trumpet judgements of Revelation 8-9 and 11 represent the second and more intense wave of divine judgement during the Tribulation period. Proceeding from the seventh seal, they escalate the devastation significantly, moving from the partial destruction of the seal judgements to catastrophic ecological and supernatural interventions that leave no doubt about the…
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: 3 minutesQuestion 10163 The fig tree appears in one of the most discussed passages in the Olivet Discourse, and its meaning has been the subject of considerable debate. Jesus uses it in a short parable that is intended to teach His disciples something about the timing and recognisability of the events He has been describing. Whether…
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…