Eighth in a series– THE GREAT TRIBULATION (Part I) Popular Conception In the popular endtime fiction of our day, “the great tribulation” is the name given to the seven-year period between the “rapture” of the Church and the beginning of the “millennium.” More precisely, “the great tribulation” refers to the second three-and-a-half years of that… Read More »Biblical Perspectives On The End Times Read More

Seventh in a Series– THE ANTICHRIST (Part 2) PAPAM ESSE IPSUM VERUM ANTICHRISTUM — “THE POPE IS THE VERY ANTICHRIST” Smalcald Articles “This teaching shows forcefully that the Pope is the very Antichrist, who has exalted himself above, and opposed himself against Christ, because he will not permit Christians to be saved without his power,… Read More »Biblical Perspectives On The End Times Read More

Sixth in a Series– THE ANTICHRIST (Part I) Fictional Antichrist He was created by a Jesuit priest by the name of Francisco Ribera (1537-1591) who lived in Salamanca, Spain. What moved this priest to create a fictional antichrist? Notice that he lived for a half century after the death of Luther. In those days almost… Read More »Biblical Perspectives On The End Times Read More

Fifth in a Series THE RAPTURE The living will be “caught up” or “raptured” on the last Day when our Lord comes. So the Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians and so most believers have understood these words to this day. But in March of 1830 a certain Margaret McDonald claimed that she had seen… Read More »Biblical Perspectives On The End Times Read More

THE MILLENNIUM One Thousand Years This numerical expression occurs six times in the first seven verses of Revelation 20. It occurs in only two other places in the Bible: “For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night” (Ps. 90:4), and “Beloved, do… Read More »Biblical Perspectives On The End Times Read More

Second in a Series– THE LAND The Land What land? The Promised Land, the land that flowed with milk and honey (Ex. 3:8), the Land of Canaan that extended “from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates” and once was occupied by the Kenites, the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites; the Hittites,… Read More »Biblical Perspectives On The End Times Read More

Third in a series THE KINGDOM Sin’s Pollution Created in the image of God, but losing that image and being expelled from Paradise, meant that each person would be born in sin, would sin, and would merit eternal damnation. Thus SIN became everyone’s problem. But the solution of that problem lay beyond the moral capabilities… Read More »Biblical Perspectives On The End Times Read More

Fourth in a Series– WHO IS A JEW? Some Answers Some Jews–within the Orthodox group–do not recognize other Jews as genuine Jews. Other Jews recognize all offspring of Jewish mothers as Jews. All Jews believe themselves to be the Chosen of God. Most Jews are still awaiting the coming of the promised Messiah. Fundamentalist Christians… Read More »Biblical Perspectives On The End Times Read More