“For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. (Matthew 24:21 NASB) I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed […]
Category: Examining Scriptures
Overview The proposal under review is that the 144,000 in Revelation 7:4 are symbolic of Jewish Christians preserved from Jerusalem’s destruction in A.D. 70, that the great multitude in Revelation 7:9–17 are Gentiles added to them, and that together they become the one flock of John 10:16. This reading belongs broadly to a preterist framework, […]
When it comes to the great white throne judgment scene in Revelation 20:11-15 a moral question arises: Will God resurrect wicked persons merely to condemn them to death based on deeds done prior to their death? Does Scripture teach a universal resurrection and condemnation of all the unrighteous dead, or a more qualified resurrection that […]
Few passages in the Bible have raised more theological and philosophical questions than the Great White Throne judgment in the Book of Revelation chapter 20, verses 11 through 15. The scene is dramatic. The dead stand before God. Books are opened. Every person is judged according to their works. Death and Hades give up the […]
For nearly two thousand years, Christians have debated the meaning of one of the most mysterious chapters in the Bible: Revelation chapter 20. What is the “thousand years”? When is Satan bound? What is the “first resurrection”? And what exactly is the great white throne judgment? Long before denominational traditions, the earliest Christians were already […]
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.(2 Corinthians 5:20 NASB) We are Christ’s ambassadors. God is using us to speak to you: we beg you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, receive the […]
Partial preterists differ from full preterists in that they do not say everything in the Bible has already been fulfilled. They typically hold that Armageddon was fulfilled in AD 70, but also maintain that the final resurrection and final judgment are still future. This video is the first in a series explaining the partial preterist […]
The New Testament’s treatment of food sacrificed to idols appears, at first glance, to be inconsistent. In 1 Corinthians chapter 8, the apostle Paul permits eating such food under certain conditions, while in chapter 2 of the Book of Revelation it is sharply condemned. The tension deepens when one considers the decree of the Jerusalem […]
Part 1: The Responsibility of the Teacher Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more severely than others. (James 3:1 International Standard Version) James 3:1 sets a sobering tone that is easy to underestimate if read too quickly. “Not many of you should […]
When Jesus speaks in the Gospels about “the end of the age,” he does not define the phrase in abstract terms. Instead, he anchors it in a sequence of events—gospel proclamation, tribulation, and the coming of the Son of Man. In Matthew chapter 24, he says: And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached […]