Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4006. The Spirit’s voice is something believers ask me about constantly, usually after someone has told them that God spoke to them in an audible voice and they are wondering why it has never happened to them. So does the Spirit speak audibly today? Very rarely, if at all, in the way people mean,…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12009 The concept of a “white lie” is so deeply embedded in everyday life that most people never stop to examine it. The assumption is simple: some lies are harmless, told with good intentions, and are therefore morally acceptable or even virtuous. “You look great in that dress.” “The dinner was wonderful.” “I’m fine,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10030 Revelation 11 introduces two unnamed figures who prophesy for 1,260 days during the Tribulation, are killed by the Beast, lie unburied in the streets of Jerusalem, and are then raised and taken to heaven in the sight of their enemies. Their identity has been debated since the earliest centuries of the church, and…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10031 The abomination of desolation is one of the most significant prophetic markers in all of Scripture. Jesus Himself identified it as the critical warning sign for those living during the Tribulation, and He expected His hearers to understand it by reference to the prophet Daniel. The phrase links Old Testament prophecy, intertestamental history,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10002 Once the basic principle of dispensationalism is understood, the next question follows naturally: how many dispensations does the Bible actually describe? The answer requires some care, because the number of dispensations is not the point of dispensational theology. The point is the underlying principle that God has governed His relationship with humanity through…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10027 The pre-wrath rapture view is a relatively recent entry into the eschatological debate, developed most fully by Marvin Rosenthal in his 1990 book The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church and further defended by Robert Van Kampen. It attempts to chart a middle course between pretribulationism and posttribulationism, arguing that the Rapture occurs during…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10025 Midtribulationism is one of several evangelical positions on the timing of the Rapture relative to the Tribulation period. It holds that the Church will be raptured at the midpoint of the seven-year Tribulation, after the relatively milder first half but before the intensified judgements of the second half, sometimes called the Great Tribulation….
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10024 Pretribulationism is the view that Christ will return to gather His Church to Himself before the seven-year Tribulation period begins. It is the position held here at Bible Proclaimer, and it is the view that Ian believes best accounts for the full range of biblical evidence when the text is read according to…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10023 One of the most common sources of confusion in eschatology is the assumption that the Rapture and the Second Coming are the same event described from different angles. If they are, the debate about timing is largely irrelevant. If they are not, then two distinct future events await, each with its own character,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10084 In 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Paul warns that the day of the Lord will not come “unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.” This figure, also called the man of sin in older translations, is one of the most significant individuals in biblical prophecy. He…