John F. Hart

Jesus’s teaching about the sheep and goats judgment challenges our prophetic model (inmillennialism). He mentions this judgment at the end of his Olivet Discourse (Matt 25:31–46). It describes what will happen after the messianic age. The Son of Man will judge “all the nations” (Matt 25:32). This judgment will bring…

Current prophetic models imply Paul made mistakes about the “the day of the Lord.” They say that, on that day, deceased Christian will rise to leave their graves empty. Living Christians will receive glorified bodies and fly to join them. Paul thought he and/or his contemporaries would live to see…

Paul uses the same basic arrangement in many of his letters. He first lays a doctrinal foundation, then gives practical exhortations based on that foundation. Hebrews conforms to this pattern. We have seen the doctrine: Christ surpasses angels (Heb. 1:4 – 2:18), Moses (Heb. 3:1 – 4:13), and Aaron (Heb.…

Before writing our post The X-Factor in the Olivet Discourse, I knew of no writer who describes the Olivet Discourse as a chiasmus. While preparing for our last post, I rejoiced to read the following by John F. Hart: “From a literary point of view, Matthew structures these as a…

Jesus provided the answers requested of him without admixing elements of some distant event. The signs (Matthew 24:4–31) and timeframe (Matthew 24:32–36) he provided dealt with his original prophecy—the destruction of the Temple (Matthew 24:1–3). Nothing in the Olivet Discourse forces an unbiased reader to postulate a complicated series of…