November 2019

            Inmillennialism differs from the other prophetic models regarding Jesus’s coming. After he rose from the dead, he spoke with the apostles about the kingdom (Acts 1:3, 6). As he ascended into heaven, an angel said,  Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up…

Prophetic models and their underlying assumptions influence how we interpret Scripture. The atheist Bertrand Russell believed Jesus taught his coming, the end of history, and the kingdom’s arrival would occur simultaneously. Further, he believed Jesus said they would happen in his generation based on passages like Matt 16:27–28; 24:1–3, 34.…

G. K. Beale agrees with at least one point in our first post on Acts (here). He says the “last days” were a reality in the book of Acts. Christians of that period were “the actual beginning fulfillment of the prophesied spiritual resurrection of Israel that was to transpire in…

Our prophetic model, inmillennialism, has a special interest in the New Testament book of Acts. This interest is because of the period called the “last days.” Inmillennialism says this term in Scripture usually refers to the period between Jesus’s crucifixion and the Temple’s fall (i.e., AD 30–70). Jesus referred to…