Prophecy

Most Christians desire spiritual experiences. They want to know the Lord and have communion with him. Paul desired to “know [Christ], and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death” (Phil. 3:10). Such desires are legitimate. Some believers seek spiritual experiences…

  “Faith without works is dead” (Jas. 2:20). An accurate prophetic framework that produces no effects in our daily lives is worthless. A prophetic view that does not make us more holy turns us into sounding brass and tinkling symbols (cp. 1 Cor. 13:1). God intends for prophecy to change…

A reader noticed our last post omitted elements of the new heavens and earth. They also contain no tears, sorrow, crying, or pain (Rev. 21:4). He wanted to know how our prophetic framework, inmillennialism, explains these features. The “new heavens and earth” do not describe eternity per se. Death, child-bearing,…

This post will appear during Passion Week, 2018. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Sunday and gave the Olivet Discourse on Tuesday. He died on the cross on Friday and rose from the dead on Sunday. His resurrection established the “new heavens and earth” (Rev. 21:1) of Revelation’s seventh vision. We…

Our last post showed the “new heaven and new earth” (Rev. 21:1) do not represent the eternal state. Saints do not go there only when they die. Rather, the “new heaven and new earth” is the environment in which God’s saints live during the Messianic Age. We will give our…

Can you imagine death in heaven? The existing prophetic frameworks imply it will be there. They also suggest other surprising conditions will exist. These implications arise from the subject of Revelation’s seventh vision (Rev. 21–22:7). The existing prophetic models all teach John’s “new heaven and a new earth” (Rev. 21:1)…

Some prophetic models teach the “thousand years” of Revelation 20 is in our future. They say this “millennium” is the kingdom age. Christ will reign for a literal thousand years. Inmillennialism maintains the “thousand years” of Revelation 20 is figurative. This symbolic number represents the entire Messianic Age. Christ established…

A reader asked a provocative question after reading our last post. There we discussed the timing of the millennium. We compared the two resurrections in 1 Cor. 15 to the two resurrections in Revelation (Rev. 20:5–6). We showed the general nature of the second resurrection by using John 5:29. That…

Let’s set some prophetic dates! This post will consider the timing of the “thousand years,” or millennium, of Rev. 20:2–7. It will discuss the millennium’s place in the sequence of major prophetic events. Also, it will set a calendar date for its occurrence. This will answer the question in our…

Revelation’s sixth vision—The Vision of the Great Whore (Rev. 17–20)—mentions a thousand-year reign of Christ (Rev. 20:2–7). Commentators call this period “the millennium.” This word comes from the Latin words mille, “thousand,” and annum, “year.” The traditional prophetic frameworks derive their names from this period. Postmillennialism believes the Lord will…