Kingdom Parable of the Tares and Wheat
May 21st, 2010 | End of the World 2012 | 1 Comment
The kingdom parable of the tares and wheat follows the parable of the sower. As in the former, we have both the parable and its application and meaning. The text is found in Matthew 13: 24-51. In the parable of the sower, the kingdom was likened to the sowing of seed. In this parable it is likened to the "growing" of the seed and the weed, no pun intended.
There are a few facts that should readily be apparent. Seed grows incrementally over time. It is important not to miss that part of the parable. Secondly, while seed is growing, it ...
Seeing Too Much Rapture in the Gospel of John 14:3...
April 20th, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment
In a continuation of our study on the
we ask are some are “Seeing too much
Rapture in the Gospel of John 14:3?
Today, we further investigate whether
this text teaches the Rapture.
It is assumed that because the Lord said
he was going away and would come again
that an intermediate period for the Rapture
before the “final” end can be inserted.
Yet, one cannot build such a doctrine
in the parameters of this context. We’ll
get to that in a moment.
As we pointed out in the previous post,
What Did Charting the End Times Miss on the Rapture of the Church?, the overriding context of John 14, is Christ’s work as High ...
When Are Daniel’s 70 Weeks Fulfilled?
February 18th, 2009 | Book of Daniel | 5 Comments
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Much has been written on the prophetic
text of the Babylonian exile of Judah in
an attempt to answer the question,
When are Daniel’s 70 Weeks Fulfilled?
Perhaps no prophetic text suffers more
at the hands of exegetes than does that
of Daniel 9:24–27.
Dispensationalist Thomas Ice and others in that movement argue for
a literal interpretation of the 70 weeks.
However, their literalizing of the text results in both a logical contradiction and abandonment of their premise by inserting a 2000 plus year gap.
They insert thousands of “weeks” into the final week resulting in non-fulfillment of the prophecy. However, the prophecy contains a very simple guide-post ...
