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 10198 The question of millennial worship strikes at the heart of what Ezekiel 40-48 actually describes and how it fits within the broader framework of redemptive history. These nine chapters contain the most detailed description of a future temple, its priesthood, its sacrificial system, and its worship practices anywhere in Scripture. The question they…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10199 Elam is not a name that features prominently in popular eschatological discussion, yet the prophet Jeremiah devotes an entire oracle to its future, and the broader biblical narrative connects Elam to both ancient history and end-times prophecy in ways that reward careful attention. The question of how Elam fits into the last days…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10192 It is one of the most puzzling questions in all of eschatology. After a thousand years of Christ reigning visibly on earth, with perfect justice, universal knowledge of God, and Satan bound in the abyss, Revelation 20:7-9 tells us that when Satan is released, he will go out to deceive the nations and…
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 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: 4 minutesQuestion 10006 The covenant God made with David in 2 Samuel 7 stands alongside the Abrahamic covenant as one of the most significant unconditional commitments in the entire biblical narrative. It establishes the royal line through which the Messiah would come, the throne on which He would reign, and the kingdom that would have no…
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…
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…