Prophecy

We have started construction of our prophetic model in the Scripture passage known as Jesus’s Olivet Discourse. This discourse is a dialog between the Lord and his disciples. It occurred (probably) on Tuesday of the week of Jesus’ crucifixion. Jesus began this exchange with a prophecy regarding the Temple’s destruction.…

Our initial blog posts have generated some interesting and provocative questions. We take this opportunity to address a few of them. We plan to answer future questions on an as-needed basis. Please submit your questions in the comment section at the end of each blog post. Why focus on AD…

Our previous post asserted the Olivet Discourse has a single topic—Jesus’ prophecy of the Temple’s destruction. We showed how the disciples correctly associated that event with the end of the Mosaic age. Here we wish to show how the other part of the disciples’ sign question—“what shall be the sign of…

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”—Stephen Covey In our last post, we identified the Olivet Discourse as the starting point for constructing our prophetic model. Matthew 24–25; Mark 13; and Luke 21:5–35 record this exchange between Jesus and his disciples. We will lay the…

Let me share with you the primary reason I began the AD 70 blog. I believe myself to be in a situation similar to the four lepers who discovered God had caused the army surrounding their city to flee the previous evening. The leprous men found incredible riches in the…

Christians inherently owe the world an apology. Christ’s apostles taught us as much (e.g. 1 Peter 3:15). Our debt is not an expression of “regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another.” We owe an “apology” in the secondary sense of the word: “a defense, excuse,…

Even though the study of prophecy can become complicated, determining your prophetic view can be reduced to answering four pivotal yes-or-no questions. The outline below will guide you through the process. When you finish, you will have classified yourself as either an amillennialist, a postmillennialist, a historic premillennialist, or a…

I think all Christians should desire an increase in government’s size and arena of control. More government in health care, more in education, more in environmental issues, more in our personal lives . . . more, more, more! We should not only desire governmental expansion, but we should also do…

The parodic Babylon Bee recently published an article about the 2016 US presidential election. By 11 PM on election day, according to this “report,” voting results compelled CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer to call the election, which was never in serious doubt, for Jesus Christ. The results ensured Jesus would continue his…

“And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.” (Luke 4:43) Let us follow the steps of Christ and his apostles in this matter. The soon-coming of the kingdom was the message first announced by John the Baptist. His message—one…