Bible Prophecy Coming True|Implications of Dispens...
March 18th, 2014 | Eschatology | 1 Comment
Bible Prophecy Coming True: Thomas Ice's Implications of Dispensationalism
In End Times Controversy, p. 399, (2003), Thomas Ice listed the following practical implications of Dispensationalism if the tribulation and the coming of Christ's are past events:
The rapture of the church is impossible
premillennialism cannot be true
Israel does not have a future national blessing
the current nation of Israel is not prophetically significant
our current state of existence would have to be the millennial kingdom or new heavens and new earth
there will be no future Antichrist or false prophet
non of the tribulation events should be of concern to us or future generations
In short, the present ...
The Local Church Survived the Great Tribulation
March 31st, 2011 | Christian Prophecy | 4 Comments
The Local Church Post 70AD?
What is the status of the local church post 70 AD? Some see no relevance for the local church after Christ's returned in the first century. They believe that the church only continued up to that point, claiming it was a Jewish institution. We dealt with that fallacy in the previous article on Israel's Hope - The Body of Christ. We strongly encourage you to look at some of the points we made.
Since we discussed the "body of Christ" in particular, our focus was on the church as the divine institution sent down from heaven by ...
Leftbehind And The Tribulation Period
June 9th, 2010 | Preterism | 6 Comments
Leftbehind and the Tribulation Period
Some of the most popular Leftbehind books on eschatology are based on the mythological teaching of a future Rapture of the saints on earth. The
future Tribulation Period teaching books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins have steered so many in the wrong direction regarding the end times.
The idea that God will one day en mass remove all Christians from the earth is totally unfounded in Scripture. In fact, it is diametrically opposite to what the Biblical text says. The principle which must be kept in mind is that we're discussing judgment passages.
Christ did not leave ...
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 ...
What Did Charting the End Times Miss On the Raptur...
April 19th, 2009 | Rapture of the church | 1 Comment
One of the most important elements of events is time, i.e.
when is that event going to occur. Everything in life is an
event in that everything occurs or exists in time.
What Did Charting the End Times Miss on the Rapture of
the Church? One of the most important elements of the
event, —time.
Charting the End Times, a very graphically pleasing book
of charts on eschatology authored by Tim Lahaye and
Thomas Ice, devotes a chapter on the Rapture. It is there
purpose to “chart” the time of the end, i.e. when the last days
events will occur. They begin with several points on the events of the ...
