This blog seeks to encourage Christians to embrace the kingdom of God and its King, Jesus Christ, as the central elements of their message to the modern world. It does so through discussions related to the interpretation of prophetic passages throughout the Bible. These discussions contribute to the incremental development…

Paul’s teaching in 1 Corinthians 15 does more than defend bodily resurrection. It reveals something crucial about how he understood Christ’s kingdom: he believed Christ’s reign would progressively triumph in history until every enemy was subdued. Embedded in Paul’s resurrection argument are two major truths that must shape our prophetic…

In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul addresses one of the most serious doctrinal problems in the church at Corinth: some among them were denying the resurrection of the dead. To Paul, this was not a minor theological mistake. It struck at the very heart of the Christian faith. He responds with…

Dr. Brian Orr recently wrote an unsolicited Review of Inmillennialism: Redefining the Last Days by Michael A. Rogers, for which I am thankful. Wisdom says, “Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips” (Prov 27:2). I share Brian’s self-styled “five-star review”…

Several significant things have changed since I started this blog back in 2016. Caleb Poston of McGahan Publishing House published my book Inmillennialism: Redefining the Last Days in 2020. The Lord has blessed me to teach the material in it in several interesting contexts, including at a conference in Hawassa,…

In the previous post, I promised to deal specifically with the final judgment described in Matthew 25:31–46—the well-known “sheep-and-goats” passage. It is one of the most sobering and majestic scenes in all of Scripture: the Son of Man seated in glory, all nations gathered before him, and an eternal division…

In the previous posts in this series, I have been walking through Jesus’ Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24–25. Step by step, I have followed the flow of Jesus’ prophecy about the destruction of the Jerusalem temple and the transition from the Mosaic age to the messianic age. To keep our…

There is something undeniably beautiful about the structure of the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24–25. It is not a random collection of apocalyptic sayings or disconnected warnings. It has unity. It has symmetry. It has flow. Jesus answers the disciples’ questions in an orderly, deliberate way. He begins with a…

In Matthew 24, Jesus sits on the Mount of Olives after foretelling the destruction of the temple. The disciples have asked about the destruction of the temple and “the end of the age” (Matt 24:3). In response, Jesus has given a series of signs—some unsettling, some glorious—all connected to the…

When Jerusalem fell in AD 70, and the temple was torn down stone by stone, it was not merely a political tragedy. It was the collapse of an entire covenantal world. Israel’s universe—centered on the temple, sacrifices, priesthood, and the Mosaic order—came crashing down. But in its place stood something…

When Jesus predicted the destruction of the temple, he used some of the most dramatic language in the Bible. In Matthew 24:29, he spoke of the sun going dark, the moon refusing to shine, stars falling from the sky, and the powers of the heavens being shaken. To many readers,…