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Response to Pat Robertson's Comments - By: Dan Brown

Pat Robertson Blames Haiti Quake on 'Pact with the Devil'

Is that what Pat really said? Below is the article that went with the above headline on "Popeater" by Sam Brand Posted Jan 14th 2010 12:38PM and my response. Read Full Article...

The Bride of Christ - By: Dan Brown

I’m writing this in response to a reader who commented on our blog last week about the “pre-tribulation” position that I and many evangelicals hold.

I was reminded, as I researched articles on both sides of the rapture isle, of the deep seated feelings of anger and hatefulness that emanate from the anti pre-tribber’s toward those of us who understand God’s Word differently. It’s not just that we have a different view; it’s that it is an inferior and un-intelligent view that must be eradicated from all of
Christendom!
Because of this strong visceral reaction to anything pre-trib I am going to choose a different approach. Read Full Article...

Psalm 83 War? - By: Dan Brown

As the day of the Lord nears, the Bible describes three different battles. Each battle gets progressively larger in scope. The first battle involves the destruction of Iraq and the nations bordering Israel. The second battle is led by Russia with the rest of the Islamic nations, and the third is the battle of Armageddon, which involves Asia with an army of two hundred million.
The destruction of Iraq is the opening salvo of the wars, but other nations are destroyed along with Iraq. It appears the people facing judgment with Iraq are the Palestinians, Egyptians, Syrians and possibly Saudi Arabians. God judges these nations when they attempt to annihilate Israel. Read Full Article...

The Ark of the Covenant - Has it been found? - by Dr. David R. Reagan

There has been a legend for many years that the Ark of the Covenant is in the Saint Mary of Zion Church in Axum, Ethiopia. In recent years this legend has been popularized in the writings of Grant Jeffrey, a Canadian Bible prophecy writer who often specializes in the sensational. Read Full Article...

2 Thessalonians 2:13, A Rapture Passage? - George Gunn (Shasta Bible College, Redding, CA)

2 Thessalonians 2:13, though frequently cited in theological works as a proof text for the
soteriological doctrine of election, is probably best understood eschatologically as descriptive of
God’s promise to deliver the church from the persecution and worldwide judgments of the Day of
the Lord by means of a pretribulational rapture. Read Full Article...

Postribulationism and 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 - by Mal Couch, Ph.D., Th.D.

From the perspective of those of us who hold to a pretribulational rapture,
posttribulationism wrecks havoc on the Word of God, and especially the eschatological
framework of events that are yet future. Advocates of posttribulationism have to work
hard at re-writing what is obvious in prophecy, redefine, and reconfigure the meaning of
biblical texts. This study will attempt to answer the posttribulational arguments concerning the Day of
the Lord, its relation to the rapture, and its teaching about the Man of Sin in 2
Thessalonians 2:1-12. ." Read Full Article...

Examining an Ancient Pre-Trib Rapture Statement - by Thomas Ice

Critics of pretribulationism sometimes state that belief in the rapture is a doctrinal development of recent origin. They argue that the doctrine of the rapture or any semblance of it was completely unknown before the early 1800s and the writings of John Nelson Darby. One of the most vocal and sensational critics of the rapture is Dave MacPherson, who argues that, "during the first 18 centuries of the Christian era, believers were never 'Rapture separaters' [sic]; they never separated the minor Rapture aspect of the Second Coming of Christ from the Second Coming itself." Read Full Article...

A Christian Love Story - Zola Levitt

Our Lord was Jewish and He did things like a Jew. So often, if we consult the Jewish law and custom, we find many of the motivations for particular actions of our Lord. We will consider the Jewish custom of matrimony. Obviously, wedding customs varied from nation to nation and from time to time. Even in today's world we see different traditions of marriage taking place at the same time in different countries. The Jews had their own peculiar ways, based on the Old Covenant, and the Lord, as we shall see, followed those traditions in choosing a bride. Read Full Article...