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by Mike Rogers
written by Mike Rogers

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 of an improved prophetic framework.

This model will better equip the saints for apologetics as they explain and defend their faith. It will encourage them in their mission to evangelize the nations. This blog and model of prophecy will seek to enrich the routine elements of daily life by placing them in a kingdom context.

Finally, the model will attempt to resolve interpretive issues that tend to puzzle Bible students. We will develop the prophetic model in our “Prophecy” category. Please consider reading these in chronological order to follow the development process. Reading later blog posts without the benefit of background information provided earlier may lessen the effectiveness of this structured approach to understanding God’s prophetic word.

As always, follow the lead of our Berean brothers and sisters: “They received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so” (Acts 17:11).

If you are interested in Biblical prophecy, please subscribe to this blog. It is free and you can unsubscribe at any time. We will send you one email per week containing the latest post. Your subscription will encourage us to continue this work!

As of June 12, 2019, Bible references without a specified version will default to the New King James Version. This change will affect posts published prior to this date. We had previously defaulted to the King James Version. So, some quotations in posts before this date will not match the verse(es) in the “pop up” pane.

BLOG INDEX

INTRODUCTORY PROPHETIC TOPICS

  1. I Must Preach The Kingdom Of God
  2. He Must Reign
  3. Hooray for Big Government!
  4. Determine Your Prophetic View
  5. Christians Should Apologize!

DEVELOPMENT OF A PROPHETIC MODEL

  1. Let’s Start Building A Prophetic Model
  2. The Main Thing
  3. The Parousia of Christ and the Destruction of the Temple
  4. Questions and Answers — Part 1
  5. The X-Factor In The Olivet Discourse
  6. Inauguration Turmoil
  7. The Bible: The Only Source Of Christian Faith
  8. The Abomination Of Desolation
  9. The Great Tribulation:  A Sign Of The Temple’s Destruction
  10. Jesus’ False-Prophet Sign
  11. The World Ended And We Missed It!
  12. A Parting Of The Ways — Part 1
  13. A Parting Of The Ways — Part 2
  14. The Signs In The Rearview Mirror
  15. When Shall These Things Be?
  16. Left Behind: Blessing Or Cursed?
  17. Parables Of Watchfulness
  18. The Sheep And Goats Judgment
  19. First Corinthians Fifteen and Inmillennialism
  20. Inmillennialism
  21. A Summary of Inmillennialism — Part 1
  22. A Summary of Inmillennialism — Part 2
  23. A Summary of Inmillennialism — Part 3
  24. A Summary of Inmillennialism — Part 4
  25. So What? The VALUE of Inmillennialism — Part 1
  26. So What? The VALUE of Inmillennialism — Part 2

APPLYING INMILLENNIALISM TO MATTHEW

  1. Meditations In Matthew One: Matthew’s Change
  2. Meditations In Matthew Two: The Last Days
  3. Meditations In Matthew Two: Herod As The Little Horn
  4. Meditations In Matthew Two: Herod As The End Time King
  5. Meditations In Matthew Three: John’s Kingdom Announcement
  6. Meditations In Matthew Four: Christ’s Temptations
  7. Meditations In Matthew Four: Jesus’s Preaching
  8. Meditations in Matthew Five–Seven: the Sermon on the Mount
  9. Meditations in Matthew Five–Seven: A Kingdom of Nonconformists
  10. Meditations in Matthew Five–Seven: A Syllogism
  11. Meditations in Matthew Eight: Roman Centurions
  12. Meditations in Matthew Nine: Age Transition
  13. Meditations in Matthew Ten: The Jewish Mission
  14. Meditations in Matthew Eleven: Age Transition (again)
  15. Meditations in Matthew Twelve: A Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax
  16. Meditations in Matthew Twelve: Two Ages
  17. Meditations in Matthew Thirteen: The Sower
  18. Meditations in Matthew Thirteen: The Weeds
  19. Meditations in Matthew Thirteen: Mustard and Leaven
  20. Meditations in Matthew Thirteen: the Treasure and the Pearl
  21. Meditations in Matthew Thirteen: the Treasure and the Pearl — Part 2
  22. Meditations in Matthew Thirteen: Fish and Scribes
  23. Meditations in Matthew Fourteen: the Herods
  24. Meditations in Matthew Fifteen: Isaiah
  25. Meditations in Matthew Sixteen: Church and Kingdom
  26. Meditations in Matthew Sixteen: Building the Church
  27. Meditations in Matthew Sixteen: Keys of the Kingdom
  28. Meditations in Matthew Sixteen: An Atheist Looks at Jesus’s Prophecy
  29. Meditations in Matthew Seventeen: the Transfiguration
  30. Meditations in Matthew Seventeen: Transfiguration Postscripts
  31. Meditations in Matthew Eighteen: Entering the Kingdom
  32. Meditations in Matthew Nineteen: Four Kingdom Images
  33. Meditations in Matthew Twenty: The First-Last Parable
  34. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-one: Kingdom Inspection
  35. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-one: Two Vineyard Parables
  36. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-two: The Parable of the Wedding Feast
  37. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-two: A Resurrection Challenge
  38. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-two: Marriage in the New Age
  39. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-two: Four Questions
  40. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-three: A Full Measure
  41. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-four: Four Key Words
  42. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-four: A Key Image
  43. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-five: The Final Judgment
  44. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-six: Time Stamps
  45. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-six: Time Stamps (2)
  46. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-seven: Rebuilding the Temple
  47. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-seven and eight: Israel Redefined
  48. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-seven and eight: Jesus’s Exodus
  49. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-eight: Jesus’s Commission
  50. Meditations in Matthew Twenty-eight: Until the End of the Age

APPLYING INMILLENNIALISM TO MARK

  1. Meditations In Mark Thirteen: Two Questions
  2. Meditations In Mark Thirteen: Not-the-End Signs
  3. Meditations In Mark Thirteen: Personal Persecution Signs
  4. Meditations In Mark Thirteen: Daniel’s Abominations
  5. Meditations In Mark Thirteen: More on Daniel’s Abominations
  6. Meditations In Mark Thirteen: Tribulation Details
  7. Meditations In Mark Thirteen: The Temple’s Destruction
  8. Meditations In Mark Thirteen: The Final Sign
  9. Meditations In Mark Thirteen: The Time of Jesus’s Coming

APPLYING INMILLENNIALISM TO ACTS

  1. Meditations In Acts: Acts and the Last Days
  2. Meditations In Acts: “Already—Not Yet”—A Helpful Concept?
  3. Meditations In Acts One: The Apostles’ Ignorance About the Kingdom
  4. Meditations In Acts One: A Visible Return?
  5. Meditations In Acts Two: Inmillennialism’s “Already-Not Yet”
  6. Meditations In Acts Two: Did Pentecost Fulfill Prophecy?
  7. Meditations In Acts Two: Outward-Facing Preaching
  8. Meditations In Acts Three: The Third Temple

APPLYING INMILLENNIALISM TO 1 CORINTHIANS

  1. Miraculous Gifts
  2. Has “Perfection” Come?
  3. The “Perfection” Metaphor
  4. Face to Face
  5. Knowing as I am Known
  6. Spiritual Gifts and Age Transitions

APPLYING INMILLENNIALISM TO 1 THESSALONIANS

  1. Introduction to 1 Thessalonians
  2. The Church in Thessalonica
  3. Election and the Thessalonians
  4. Teaching by Typology
  5. Two-Fold Tribulation in Thessalonica
  6. Entering the Kingdom
  7. Kingdom Glory
  8. Filling Up Sin
  9. Bad Interpretive Logic
  10. Satan Hindered Us
  11. Living Coram Deo
  12. What Concerned the Thessalonians About Their Dead?
  13. What “Word of the Lord”?
  14. Where Does God Bring Dead Saints?
  15. We Who Are Alive and Remain
  16. Shaken in Mind
  17. The Dead Will Rise First — Part 1
  18. The Dead Will Rise First — Part 2
  19. The Dead Will Rise First — Part 3
  20. The Dead Will Rise First — Part 4
  21. The Dead Will Rise First — Part 5
  22. The Fathers Enter the Kingdom
  23. Your Dead Shall Live
  24. I Will Open Your Graves
  25. I Will Ransom Them From the Grave
  26. Those Who Sleep in the Dust Shall Awake
  27. Tidying Up
  28. Declaring God’s Mighty Acts
  29. Summary of the Rapture Passage
  30. Times and Seasons
  31. A Prophetic Tight Wire
  32. Paul and the Rapture — Part 1
  33. Paul and the Rapture — Part 2
  34. Paul and the Rapture — Part 3
  35. Paul and the Rapture — Part 4

APPLYING INMILLENNIALISM TO 2 THESSALONIANS

  1. Introduction to 2 Thessalonians
  2. The Great Apostasy
  3. The Man of Sin
  4. The Works of the Man of Sin
  5. The Comings of the Man of Sin and Christ

APPLYING INMILLENNIALISM TO HEBREWS

  1. The Last Days In Hebrews
  2. Christ Superior To Angels
  3. Typology And Inmillennialism
  4. Christ Superior To Moses
  5. Christ Superior to Aaron — Part 1
  6. Christ Superior to Aaron — Part 2
  7. A Warning To The Hebrews
  8. The Role Of Faith In Hebrews
  9. Ye Are Come
  10. Coming Home
  11. Mystic Sweet Communion?
  12. You Blew It Up!
  13. Aids To Insights

APPLYING INMILLENNIALISM TO REVELATION

  1. The Bookends Of Revelation
  2. Better Early Than Late!
  3. Mapping God’s Highway In Revelation
  4. Caesar Is Lord!?
  5. Can God’s Kingdom Grow?
  6. Israel: God’s Church Kingdom
  7. False Jews and Their Persecutions
  8. Repetition In Revelation
  9. Replacing Broken Bottles
  10. Jesus The Seal Breaker
  11. Trumpets Of Tribulation — Part 1
  12. Trumpets Of Tribulation — Part 2
  13. Trumpets Of Tribulation — Part 3
  14. Trumpets of Tribulation — Part 4
  15. Trumpets of Tribulation — Part 5
  16. Trumpets of Tribulation — Part 6
  17. The Seven Mystic Figures — Part 1: Identities
  18. The Seven Mystic Figures — Part 2: Exodus
  19. The Seven Mystic Figures — Part 3: First Attack
  20. The Seven Mystic Figures — Part 4: Sea Beast
  21. The Seven Mystic Figures — Part 5: Land Beast
  22. The Seven Mystic Figures — Part 6: The Lamb
  23. The Seven Mystic Figures — Part 7: The Son Of Man
  24. The Seven Vials — Part 1: The Song of Moses
  25. The Seven Vials — Part 2: Our Vision
  26. The Seven Vials — Part 3: It Is Done
  27. The Great Whore — Part 1: Overview
  28. The Great Whore — Part 2
  29. Predestination And Prophecy
  30. A Literal Millennium?
  31. A Delayed Millennium? — Part 1
  32. A Delayed Millennium? — Part 2
  33. A Delayed Millennium? — Part 3
  34. Death In Heaven?
  35. The Messianic Age as the New Heaven and Earth — Part 1
  36. The Messianic Age as the New Heaven and Earth — Part 2
  37. The Messianic Age as the New Heaven and Earth — Part 3
  38. Practical Inmillennialism

APOLOGETICS

  1. The Bible: The Only Source Of Christian Faith
  2. Christians Should Apologize!
  3. A Nonbeliever Looks at Christianity

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

  1. Questions and Answers — Part 1
  2. When He Shall Appear In First John Three, Verse Two
  3. Paul and the Rapture — Part 1
  4. Paul and the Rapture — Part 2
  5. Paul and the Rapture — Part 3
  6. Paul and the Rapture — Part 4
  7. Questions and Answers — Part 2
  8. Questions and Answers — Part 3
  9. Questions and Answers — Part 4: A Visible Return?
  10. A Review of Acts One, 9–11 and the Hyper-Preterism Debate by Keith A. Mathison
  11. Appearing with Christ in Glory
  12. Questions and Answers (re. First Thessalonians)
  13. Shaken in Mind (re. Second Thessalonians chapter two)
  14. Forever?
  15. A Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax
  16. What About Wicked Men Now?

ALL POSTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER BY DATE PUBLISHED

 

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Mike is a native Alabamian, born in Auburn and raised in Blount County. Click to read more.

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6 comments

A. Gunasekaran January 25, 2017 - 3:45 pm

Dear brother Mike,

It is a good idea to write the teachings you have done in India. It is an important subject every one should know. Looking forward very much to receive your articles every week.

Bro.Guna, India.

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Michael Rogers January 25, 2017 - 7:52 pm

Thank you, Brother Guna. I have fond memories of the time I spent visiting the saints in India with Elder Jeff Harris. I look forward to your feedback regarding the posts.

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Harold Wayne Gregory November 19, 2018 - 1:30 pm

Brother Mike,

I enjoyed your articles and have not found any serious disagreements. I have not heard the term “inmilenialism” before and wonder if you are it’s originator.

I came to many of the same conclusions in the late 80’s and early 90’s. However my journey actually began in the mid 1960’s. Study of Scriptures demanded I scrap what I was taught by men (good and honorable men) and begin empty. It was indeed a long lonesome journey. Questioning, let alone rejecting all forms of millinielism, cost fellowship with many of former friends and Christian companions. However, the momentary sadness was replaced with faith and joy in knowing the Holy Scriptures clear and whatever they said were true.

I look forward to further perusal of your articles. Thanks and may our sovereign Lord bless you and yours.

An unprofitable servant,
Wayne

P. S. When my journey began, I lived and pastored in Millport, AL.

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Mike Rogers December 1, 2018 - 11:31 pm

Brother Wayne,

Thank you for the message! It encourages me to know people are reading and responding to the posts.

Yes, I coined the term “inmillennialism.” I discussed the rationale for doing so in an earlier blog post (here).

I can relate to your experiences. The long journey, isolation, loss of friendships, etc. are difficult. But, as you say, seeing how God has arranged all of history to fulfill his prophetic word brings great joy.

Please stay in touch. I want to know what you think of the posts as we go along. This includes any corrections or clarifications that I might need to make.

Yours in Christ,
Mike

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Todd February 6, 2019 - 9:48 am

Is it possible that all these things were fulfilled in the first century, but that they are also a pattern, type, and shadow of things that will occur at the end of the Messianic Age we are living in now? If ethnic Israel is a type, wouldn’t it make sense that the judgment on Israel and the separation of the wheat and tares, is a shadow of the judgement on the whole world at the end of this age? After all, God uses pattern and repetition in all He does.

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Mike Rogers February 20, 2019 - 3:09 pm

Todd,

Thanks for the comment and your questions. We have explicit scriptural support for saying Israel’s Exodus from Egypt was a type of Jesus’s generation (e.g., 1 Cor 10:6, 11). I know of no such warrant for extending the typology to the final judgment.

Is the typology possible? Yes. Can we build a prophetic model around this possibility? I think we dare not.

I would appreciate receiving any scriptural evidence for this possible typological relationship. It would help relieve some of the problems people have with inmillennialism!

Yours in Christ,
Mike

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