Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10091 The temple occupies a unique place in Scripture’s prophetic landscape. From Solomon’s magnificent construction to the Roman destruction of Herod’s temple in AD 70, from Ezekiel’s extraordinary vision of a future temple to Jesus’ own references to the temple’s eschatological role, the subject runs like a thread through prophetic Scripture. For those who…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10088 The four horsemen of the Apocalypse are among the most vivid and widely recognised images in all of Scripture. They appear in Revelation 6:1-8 as the Lamb opens the first four seals of the scroll, and their appearance marks the beginning of the Tribulation judgements that will fall upon the earth. Understanding who…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10086 Few eschatological questions carry as much pastoral weight as this one. Parents and grandparents who hold to the pretribulational Rapture naturally want to know what will happen to the young children in their lives when the Lord returns for His Church. The question touches on some of the deepest instincts God has placed…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10087 The phrase “one will be taken and one left” in Matthew 24:40-41 is among the most frequently cited verses in popular Rapture teaching. It appears on bumper stickers, in film dramatisations, and in countless sermon illustrations. But does the passage actually describe the Rapture? A careful reading of the context reveals something rather…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10136 Preterism is an approach to biblical prophecy, particularly to the book of Revelation, that holds that most or all of the prophetic events described in the New Testament were fulfilled in the past, principally in the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by Rome in AD 70. It is a significant interpretive framework…
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: 3 minutesQuestion 10142 Few questions in biblical theology generate as much confusion as whether the kingdom of God is a present spiritual reality or a future physical one. The answer, as with so many things in Scripture, is that the question itself needs to be reframed. The kingdom of God is not simply present or simply…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10193 The New Testament consistently teaches that what believers do with their lives in the present age has consequences that extend into the age to come. The question is not whether faithfulness matters for eternity, because it plainly does, but what form the consequence takes. Scripture presents a picture in which believers who have…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10140 The phrase “the kingdom of God” appears dozens of times across the Gospels and the Epistles, yet Christians often use it without pausing to consider what it actually means. Is it a place? A spiritual condition? A future political reality? The answer is that it encompasses more than any single definition can capture,…
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…