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: 4 minutesQuestion 10094 Both historic premillennialism and dispensational premillennialism affirm that Christ will return before the Millennium and reign on earth for a thousand years. On this they agree, and the agreement is significant. But the differences between the two positions are substantial enough that conflating them produces real confusion. Understanding where they converge and where…
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 10093 Jerusalem is not simply another city in the biblical narrative. It is the city God chose, the city where His name dwells, and the city around which the climactic events of human history will revolve. From David’s conquest of the Jebusite stronghold to the descent of the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21, this…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10089 The wrath of God during the Tribulation is one of the most sobering subjects in all of Scripture. It is not a tangential theme or an incidental feature of the end times; it is the defining characteristic of the entire seven-year period. Understanding what that wrath looks like, why it falls, and on…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10090 The question of whether the Church is promised deliverance from God’s wrath is not a secondary curiosity within eschatology. It goes to the heart of the pretribulational position and has direct bearing on how believers understand their relationship to the coming Tribulation period. If the Church is destined to endure the Tribulation, the…
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: 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: 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: 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…