Parable of ten virgins

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…

Unintended consequences plague Elder Michael Ivey’s division of the Olivet Discourse. After Jesus foretold the temple’s fall, the disciples asked two questions: when would it happen and what signs would precede it (Matt 24:1–3). The Lord answered by giving the signs (Matt 24:4–31) and their timeframe (Matt 24:32–36). He then…

A friend asked me to develop a 15-page summary of inmillennialism, my framework for the interpretation of biblical prophecy. This post is the fourth and final part of that summary. I plan to soon post a downloadable PDF of the entire document. We started building our model of prophecy in…

Before writing our post The X-Factor in the Olivet Discourse, I knew of no writer who describes the Olivet Discourse as a chiasmus. While preparing for our last post, I rejoiced to read the following by John F. Hart: “From a literary point of view, Matthew structures these as a…