Any time Israel becomes involved in a war in the Middle East many people, including some non-Christians, want to know if it is in any way related to Bible prophecy. My answer is always "yes and no." "Yes," since just about any geo-political event involving Israel relates to Bible prophecy in some kind of stage-setting way. On the other hand, "no," since almost all end-time Bible prophecy relating to Israel will not start to be fulfilled until after the rapture, during the seven-year tribulation period. Every time something happens in the Middle East relating to Israel it certainly causes me to wonder even more, "Isn't the rapture about to take place?" ...
It has been almost twenty years ago that Randall Price and I wrote a book titled Ready to Rebuild: The Imminent Plan to Rebuild the Last Days Temple. Dr. Price has gone on to become one of the leading, if not the leading expert within American Evangelicalism on the Temple movement. Dr. Price wrote his PhD dissertation on the Temple at the University of Texas and has produced a number of books on this topic, including a 750-page work.[3] So, are the Jews in Israel still “ready to rebuild” the third Temple as we noted in 1992? ...
Passage: Revelation 11:3-13
Usually when one deals with the two witnesses of Revelation 11:3–13, the discussion centers around the identity of the pair. Even though I believe they will be Moses and Elijah that will not be my focus. The emphasis of this article is whether the two witnesses will minister in the first or second half of the seven-year tribulation...
Dispensational, pretribulationists believe that the New Testament teaches that the current Church Age is unique when contrasted with previous and future dispensations. We believe that the church was always a part of God’s eternal plan or decree, but that it was a mystery, not revealed until New Testament times. Such New Testament uniqueness is one of the major reasons that support the rapture of the body of Christ at the end of this age, before the beginning of the 70th week of Daniel. Why do we believe that this is the New Testament teaching? ...
Recently I have thought a great deal about the significance that the rapture was first revealed by Christ the night before His crucifixion in John 13–16, in a message often called “The Upper Room Discourse.” Christ’s farewell discourse is only found in John’s Gospel. If Christ’s “high priestly prayer” in John 17 is included, this section of John’s Gospel (13–17) provides an introduction of church age truths, ...