Micah and the Latter Days

January 14th, 2011 | Prophecy | No Comment  
Micah and the Endtimes Micah, who prophesied contemporaneously with Isaiah, spoke of the latter days when God would come to bring both judgment and peace. This two-fold  purpose of eschatology is often downplayed to pit one against the other. We're told that if God is coming to judge the nations, then he is not bringing peace or salvation. On the other hand if it is a coming for salvation, then judgment is excluded. This is not the case. According to the prophets, both judgment and salvation are concurrent events of the endtimes teaching in the scriptures. Micah, the prophet, as did Isaiah, ...
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Do the Egyptians Belong in Mount Zion?

November 24th, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment  
Do the Egyptians belong in Mt. Zion? From the beginning of Covenant Israel's history and quest for nationhood, a mixed multitude traveled with them from Egypt.  Moses was married to an Ethiopian. In the latter days Egypt and Israel's relationship once again unite, not as master and slave but as brethren in the new temple keeping the Feasts of the Lord. In the prophetic imagery of Zechariah 14, the nations share in the post parousia (coming of Christ) blessings of Israel. "And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go ...
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How Do We Define Zionism?

November 12th, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment  
How do we define Zionism? It depends on our eschatology (study of the end times). For this post, we suggest three views of Zionism leaving the reader to choose which you find to be more in harmony with the Bible. Initially, Zion identified with the City of David, presumed to be the once Canaanitish city as it existed at the time of its capture by David in 1003 B.C. After Solomon had expanded Jerusalem northward to include Mt. Moriah, the latter king, at his dedication of the Temple on this new site in 958 B.C., is said to have brought up ...
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Has the Last Trumpet Sounded?

April 10th, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment  
Image via Wikipedia Has the last trumpet sounded? By the last trumpet we mean the eschatological trumpet that consummates the last days events. According to Numbers chapter 10, Israel learned the meaning of the use of the trumpets through the instruction of Moses. Specific details for the gathering of the assembly, advancing, going to war and in the accompaniment with the appointed feasts were assigned to the blowing of trumpets. The Trumpets and the Covenants In one of the most audible times of Israel history, —the giving of the law at Sinai, loud trumpet blasts sounded. The trumpet and voice of words were so frightful that the people who heard ...
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