John Gill

In this series, The Great Commission and Biblical Prophecy, we’re considering Jesus’ prophecy about the temple’s destruction (Matt 24:1–2), the disciples’ questions regarding the timing and the signs related to it (Matt 24:3), and Jesus’ response to their questions. We’re in the section where the Lord gives the signs (Matt…

Our survey has shown that Peter was accurate when he said all the prophets foretold his generation (Acts 3:24). We have verified that Moses, Samuel, Obadiah, Joel, Amos, Jonah, and Hosea did so and that their prophecies fit well in our inmillennial model of prophecy. In this post, we will…

In this series, we’re testing Peter’s claim that all the prophets spoke about his days, his generation. According to the inmillennial prophetic model, these were the “last days” of the Mosaic age. In previous posts, we verified that  Moses, Samuel, Obadiah, Joel, Amos, and Jonah did so, following the chronological…

We’re testing Peter’s claim that all the prophets spoke about his days, his generation. According to the inmillennial prophetic model, these were the “last days” of the Mosaic age. We verified Moses (here and here), Samuel, and Obadiah did so, following the chronological order Peter (and Jesus) suggested (Acts 3:24; Luke 24:27).…

Peter made a bold assertion: “All the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days” (Acts 3:24). By “these days,” he means the days in which he lived, his generation.  This series of posts tests this claim by searching through the…

Jesus, after His resurrection, demonstrated good Bible study. “And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Luke 24:27). Peter imitated his Master by saying, “Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as…

  We’re used to Peter speaking before he thinks. “Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!” (Matt 16:22), he said, earning a stern rebuke from the Lord. Of course, that was before his encounter with the Lord after His resurrection. When we hear him preaching…

I read the book of James in my private Bible reading this week and thought about its statement regarding firstfruits: “Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures” (Jam 1:18). This experience motivated me…

My Blog Overview contains the following statement: “This blog seeks to encourage Christians to embrace the kingdom of God and its King, Jesus Christ, as the central elements of their message to the modern world … through discussions related to the interpretation of prophetic passages throughout the Bible.” It also…

Paul believed a significant prophetic event would happen in his near future, perhaps during his lifetime, and he based that belief on the words of Christ. Inmillennialism, a prophetic view based on the Olivet Discourse and 1 Corinthians 15, accounts for this perspective. As I have said (here), the Apostle’s closing…