Category The Coming Kingdom

It does seem that our American culture is in a moral free fall, and that those who follow Jesus Christ are increasingly falling out of favor with that culture. We will not take time here to give examples of this…

As Chuck sat in church listening to the visiting speaker’s talk on the millennium, he couldn’t help thinking that something just did not sound right to him.  The speaker apparently thought that the millennial kingdom was set up after Jesus…

It is no secret that animal sacrifice in the future messianic (millennial) kingdom has been a thorny problem for many interpreters. In this second article, we will attempt to answer the main questions about the purposes for such sacrifices. In…

One of the more confusing issues in biblical studies is the matter of animal sacrifices in the coming messianic (millennial) kingdom. In light of the finished work of Jesus on the cross, why would animal sacrifices be needed? The fact…

Three theological subject are the emphasis of this part of the discussion: (1) The concept of the rapture being imminent; (2) the distinctions between the rapture and the second coming; and (3) the needed interval between the rapture and the…

The Church is exempt from the wrath of God and this key point is the subject of this article. When the writers of the New Testament discussed the Rapture event, it was in the context of godly living. The truth…

Two points are emphasized in this second part of the discussion: (1) the stated purposes of the tribulation period do not include the Church, and (2) the lack of clear evidence for the Church’s presence in tribulation passages. When I…

This article focuses on the Church of Jesus Christ being distinct from the nation of Israel. This is, in fact, the cornerstone theological truth for a pre-trib rapture. The rapture event is personally important to every believer because every believer…

The phrase “kingdom of God” is used some 200 times in the Bible but much more than that in today’s preaching. Yet, in spite of its great use, rarely does a preacher/teacher define what he means by it. The phrase…