I may be resolving a non-issue to some of my readers. Let me explain. Matthew 24 and Luke 21 are companion chapters, slightly different accounts of the same event in Jesus’ life, a discourse about the closing events of pre-Millennial...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Daniel the Jewish prophet predicted in the 600’s before Christ that his people were to have a period of 490 years in which to wrap up their history. An astounding statement. Daniel’s people, Daniel’s holy city, the Jews whose...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Students of prophecy will recognize that there is a close association between the sacrifices Jews will offer in a coming Temple, and the abomination that follows them. “Abomination” is from the Hebrew shikkoots , meaning filthy,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
There is a new world order in the works. Angelic forces fight for it. When all is said and done, the world will look exactly as God saw it when He revealed it to us in the first century, not to mention Daniel’s century. Revelation 17 speaks...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
What must the world look like when it is nearly the end? Has not the Scripture spoken eloquently about this? It is certainly understandable for moderns to fear those who seem over-confident about Biblical prophecy, having endured so many false...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Not only paraphrased. Interpreted too. I claim no inspiration for the following verses, but offer it to the Body of Christ as a possible way to look at this incredible prophecy found in Daniel 9. I have taken several of the translations available...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Have you read it lately? Matthew 25, I mean? The scene where Jesus divides the sheep from the goats? This passage has been taught for centuries, I imagine, as a preview of how Christians are divided from the unsaved. Over and over we are...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I have long examined the comparison between Matthew 24 and Luke 21. The conventional wisdom is that much of both of these passages refer to the events of A.D. 70, with a little second coming documentary affixed to the end. Careful scrutiny demands...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The revealing of the sons of God. What a wonderful thought is expressed by the beloved Paul in Romans 8. The creation is waiting for God’s people to be in charge. To set things in order. I have heard often these days that this text refers to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Question: How could God ever allow His own children to go through upheavals in nature, diseases of all sorts, malnutrition, famine, imprisonment, death, persecution, torture? In other words, Will God allow His saints to go through "The Great...[ abbreviated | read entire ]