July 2021

Tight wires frighten me. I heard a speaker tell about a daredevil who stretched one across Niagara Falls. Before walking across, he asked the audience, “Do you think I can do this?” Yes!, came the unanimous reply. After his return, he put a wheelbarrow on the wire. “Who thinks I can…

Incidental evidence can provide satisfying confirmation of an assertion. Such is the case as I conclude my remarks on Paul’s “rapture passage” (1 Thess 4:13–5:11).  In my last post, I summarized the inmillennial view—Paul used figurative language to describe the Mosaic-age-to-messianic-age transition. The dead in Christ would “rise first,” then the…

In my Tidying Up post, I promised to summarize Paul’s “rapture passage” (1 Thess 4:13–5:11) from my prophetic perspective (i.e., per inmillennialism). I missed my self-imposed deadline but am now ready to fulfill the promise. My previous posts have provided background information that anticipated this moment. The following synopsis of them…

Paul expected “mighty acts” of God in his generation and declared that expectation in his writings. The other apostles did, too. They based their anticipation on Jesus’ statements, especially his Olivet Discourse. He had said the worldwide preaching of the gospel, the abomination of desolation, the great tribulation, his coming,…