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Announcement The Southern Christian Writers Conference has chosen my book, Inmillennialism: Redefining the Last Days, as a finalist for their 2021 Notable Book Award. They will host their Book Expo and live stream the award ceremony on Facebook (here). The Expo starts at 10 am (CST) and the awards at 3…

After reading our “Already—Not Yet” post, a reader suggested we provide a list of prophecies inmillennialism puts in the “not yet” category. This post will expand on his request. It will use typology to develop a list of both “already” and “not yet” prophecies. It will emphasize the relevance of…

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…

Metaphors matter. The Scriptures use them to give a full-orbed description of the “last days” of the Mosaic age (e.g., Heb 1:2; Gen 49:1). God gave Israel a “new birth” through Christ’s resurrection (1 Pet 1:3; Eph 2:6). Christ then began to reign in his kingdom after Israel’s “regeneration” (Matt…

  A valued reader disagrees with our interpretation of “that which is perfect” in 1 Cor 13:10. In our post The Miraculous Gifts we said the “perfect” stands for the messianic age in which we now live. Our reader says “this ‘perfection,’ teleios, to which Paul refers, is the eternal…

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…