Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10080 The impulse to calculate the date of Christ’s return is understandable. Believers long for the Lord’s coming, and prophecy gives enough detail to make the temptation to set a timetable feel almost reasonable. But date-setting is not a harmless exercise in prophetic enthusiasm. It is a practice that contradicts Scripture directly, damages the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10081 The doctrine of imminence is one of the most distinctive and practically significant features of pretribulational eschatology. It holds that the Rapture of the Church could occur at any moment, without prior warning, without the fulfilment of intervening prophetic events, and without any sign that must precede it. Understanding this doctrine requires careful…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10035 Babylon appears prominently in Revelation 17-18, depicted as a great harlot seated on many waters and as a magnificent city whose destruction comes in a single hour. The imagery is rich, layered, and deeply rooted in the Old Testament. Understanding what Babylon represents in Revelation requires tracing its biblical roots, weighing the interpretive…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10032 The book of Revelation describes a sequence of divine judgements poured out upon the earth during the seven-year Tribulation period. The seal judgements, opened by the Lamb in Revelation 6, form the opening wave of this programme of wrath and set the stage for the intensifying trumpet and bowl judgements that follow. Understanding…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10034 The bowl judgements of Revelation 16 are the final and most severe wave of divine wrath during the Tribulation. Sometimes called the vial judgements after the older English rendering of the Greek phiale (a broad, shallow bowl used for pouring), they are described as completing God’s wrath (Revelation 15:1). There is no further…
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 10137 Futurism is one of the four major approaches to interpreting the book of Revelation, and it is the framework that flows most naturally from the consistent application of the literal-grammatical-historical method to prophetic Scripture. In the context of eschatological interpretation, futurism holds that the events described in Revelation 4-22 are yet to be…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10153 The phrase “the blessed hope” has become so familiar in Christian vocabulary that it can lose its force through sheer repetition. But when Paul used it in his letter to Titus, he was describing something specific, something that was meant to shape the way believers live in the present. The blessed hope is…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10132 The relationship between the Millennium and the eternal state is one of the most important structural questions in biblical eschatology. These are not the same thing, and confusing them distorts the prophetic picture Scripture paints. The Millennium is a defined period with specific characteristics and a definite end. The eternal state is what…