Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10135. Where the Ezekiel 38-39 war belongs on the prophetic timeline is one of the genuinely open questions in dispensational study, and honest men who agree about everything else land in different places on it. I hold a view, and I hold it with less certainty than I hold most things. What follows sets…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10165. The king of the north and the king of the south dominate Daniel 11, a chapter so detailed that critics have long insisted it must have been written after the events it describes. I take the opposite view, and I think the chapter is one of the strongest pieces of evidence for predictive…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10173. Tribulation saints are the believers who come to faith after the Church has been taken, during the seven year period of judgement that Scripture calls Daniel’s seventieth week. They are among the bravest people the Bible describes, and a great many of them will die for their faith. So when are they raised?…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10184. Scripture indicates that temple sacrifices will resume during the Tribulation, because several prophecies require a functioning altar which the Antichrist can stop. That is not a comfortable conclusion for a Christian who knows the letter to the Hebrews, and it needs handling with care. Two things have to be said together. A revived…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10185. A prophetic timeline is only as good as the texts holding it up, so let me set out the sequence I believe Scripture teaches and show you where each stage comes from. What follows runs from the moment the church is caught up to the moment God dwells with His people on a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10189. The seven-year covenant of Daniel 9:27 is the agreement that begins the final week of Daniel’s seventy, and it is the event that starts the prophetic clock running again after a long pause. Everything in the Tribulation timetable is dated from it. So who makes it, with whom, and what does it do?…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08079 Satan’s role in the tribulation is described more fully than at any other point in Scripture, and Revelation gives us a sequence rather than a snapshot. He is thrown down, he pursues, he empowers, he deceives, and finally he is seized and bound. I write as a pretribulational premillennialist, so I take that…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 8018. The four angels bound at the great river Euphrates appear in Revelation 9:14 and 15, and the detail that stops most readers is not the binding but the timing. They are released for the hour, the day, the month, and the year. That is a strange way to describe a moment. It is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 8017. Abaddon and Apollyon are two names for a single figure, and Revelation 9:11 gives us both because John is writing for readers in two languages. He is called the angel of the bottomless pit, and both of his names mean the same thing: Destroyer. That is a rare piece of transparency in a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10175. Is America Mystery Babylon? The question has sold a remarkable number of books, and it surfaces in every prophecy conference I have ever heard about. The woman of Revelation 17 with the title written on her forehead has been identified with Rome, with the papacy, with apostate Protestantism, with the United Nations and,…