Prophecy

Betty and I enjoyed stimulating conversations this past Lord’s Day evening with the saints at Grace Heritage Baptist Church. Two ideas for blog posts sprang from them. The one I will share here relates to my last post on typology. The other relates to Paul’s meaning when he says, “Children,…

I made a misleading statement in my book, Inmillennialism: Redefining the Last Days: “That the inmillennial prophetic model does not show a visible coming of Christ may surprise some readers.” This sentence not only surprised some readers, but it also caused them to assume I do not believe in our…

Jesus closes His explanation of the “great tribulation” sign with a promise to deliver the elect Jews from that catastrophe: “Unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened” (Matt 24:22). He also tells His disciples what they must…

Jesus gives a second description of the “great tribulation” sign: it would be one “such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matt 24:21). This begins the shift in literary styles that I mentioned earlier (here), from unadorned prose…

In the last post (here), I discussed one aspect of Jesus’ great tribulation sign: the desolation it brought. Here, I begin examining the descriptions it required. Through these descriptions, Jesus showed the significance of the “great tribulation.” This time of upheaval would be (1) the days of God’s vengeance against…

Jesus answered the disciples’ sign question by presenting signs that would be “the beginning of the birth pains” for Israel (Matt 24:8 ESV). Now, He gives a sign nearer to the temple’s fall: “There will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until…

Pheelan McPhalen honored me on his podcast, All Things Eschatology. In a recent thirty-minute episode, Is Inmillennialism a Thing?, he reviewed my book, Inmillennialism: Redefining the Last Days. He did so after hearing my interview with Josh Howard on Eschatology Matters (here).  I am thankful for Pheelan’s review. He was…

My recent interview with Josh Howard on the show Eschatology Matters intensified a need I have felt for some time. He asked how the sheep and goats judgment in the Olivet Discourse (Matt 25:31–46) fits into inmillennialism. The difficulty arises because I believe Jesus focused on one subject—the destruction of…

In this series of posts, we’re verifying Peter’s words—all the prophets foretold his generation (Acts 3:24). We have confirmed that Moses, Samuel, Obadiah, Joel, Amos, Jonah, and Hosea did so and that their prophecies fit well in our inmillennial model of prophecy. In our last two posts (here and here),…

In this series of posts, we’re verifying Peter’s words—all the prophets foretold his generation (Acts 3:24). We have confirmed that Moses, Samuel, Obadiah, Joel, Amos, Jonah, and Hosea did so and that their prophecies fit well in our inmillennial model of prophecy. In our last post, we saw that Micah,…