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The Coming of Jesus: The Olivet Discourse – Part 1

...s in with Daniel's prophecies and also with Revelation.     Further Reading: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12416-pseudo-messiahs#anchor2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus http://www.biblehistory.net/newsletter/acts11_famine.htm http://www.amazon.co.uk/Josephus-Complete-Edition-published-Thomas/dp/B00E27XLCG/ http://www.josephus.org/ntparallels2.htm#Famine http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/text/josephus/war4.html http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/02/28/josephus-armies-in-the-sky/ http://www.agudatbris.com/writtings2010/JudgingtheKingdom.pdf http://www.josephus.org/ntparallels2.htm#Egypt...

Who is the New Jerusalem?

...t of what Daniel foresaw in his visions: Daniel 7:18 But the holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess it forever, yes, forever and ever.   But it doesn’t stop there: again in Rev 22 when the holy city is being described in some more detail, John writes that there is a river of “living water” flowing from the throne of God, lined with the Tree of Life on either side, where God’s people “will reign forever and ever” (Rev 22:5). These references to being a “kingdom” and “priests” harkens back to what Peter also wrote about in 1 Peter 2:9.   Leaves for Healing There’s an important “clue” here about the na...

The Coming of Jesus: Introduction

...tion Daniel's 70 Weeks Coming in the Clouds and Prophetic Symbolism The Olivet Discourse – Part 1 The Olivet Discourse – Part 2 Revelation Fulfilled? Who is the New Jerusalem? Our Future Hope: What Now?   I hope it will be as enjoyable and educational as I found it while studying all of this! I'll begin with Part 1: Daniel's 70 Weeks within the next week. Subscribe to this blog so that you don't miss any updates in the series!...

An Examination of Conditional Immortality (Part Two)

...6), or in Daniel 7 where the angel explains the meaning of the vision, the angel with John does the same thing. Revelation 17:15And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.” Obviously from this, we don’t say that the peoples and nations are actually water, just like the whore isn’t an actual woman, but a city. It’s representative of something else; of an earthly reality veiled with symbolic, poetic imagery. We must remember that just because Revelation is highly allegorical and symbolic in its nature, that doesn’t mean it isn’t speaking to real and actual events. It...

Armageddon Is Not A Battle Plan: What Revelation Actually Says — And Why It Matters Right Now

...entary on Daniel, identified that fourth empire as Rome and understood the stone as the Kingdom of Christ expanding through the Church — a reading Eusebius shares in his Church History. R.C. Sproul, in The Last Days According to Jesus, represents the same broad tradition in more accessible modern form. The Church, in other words, is that stone: spreading through the empire not by force of arms but by the quiet, unstoppable advance of the Gospel, dismantling Rome’s claims to ultimate authority by proclaiming the truth about the True God. All three layers are real. All three are present in the text. And none of them require a future literal battle at Megid...

Was there death before the Fall?

...cept, as Daniel is the latest book of the Hebrew Bible, and as we get to the 1st Century onwards, all were agreed that there "was no resurrection" - except for the Jews, of course. What we can see in the Resurrection is that God wants us to be with him in a physical sense, not in some disembodied state. This is why we were created; and why the Jewish concept of blessing and reward from God is a long physical life (eg. Exodus 20:12); and also why the New Testament is concerned with the restoration of all creation through the resurrection (cf. Col 1:15-22; Rom 8:19-23) - and not an escape from it! 1 Tim 6:16 tells us that it is God "alone who has immortali...