December 2016

Our previous post asserted the Olivet Discourse has a single topic—Jesus’ prophecy of the Temple’s destruction. We showed how the disciples correctly associated that event with the end of the Mosaic age. Here we wish to show how the other part of the disciples’ sign question—“what shall be the sign of…

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” — Stephen Covey In our last post, we identified the Olivet Discourse as the starting point for constructing our prophetic model. Matthew 24–25; Mark 13; and Luke 21:5–35 record this exchange between Jesus and his disciples. We will…

Let me share with you the primary reason I began the AD 70 blog. I believe myself to be in a situation similar to the four lepers who discovered God had caused the army surrounding their city to flee the previous evening. The leprous men found incredible riches in the…

Christians inherently owe the world an apology. Christ’s apostles taught us as much (e.g. 1 Peter 3:15). Our debt is not an expression of “regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another.” We owe an “apology” in the secondary sense of the word: “a defense, excuse,…