Archive for the ‘End Time Events’ Category

Now the angel giving John and us the guided tour takes us through the gates of pearl into the City to continue our worship and wonder at God’s greatness. I. The New Jerusalem Described Externally (21:10-20) This is the aerial view. II. The City is now Internally Described (21:21-22:5). Not only is God a master architect but He is [...]

When a Sunday school teacher quizzed her fifth-graders about how one gets to heaven, she got all correct answers: One doesn’t get there by being good, giving away money, or being a nice person. “Well, then,” she asked, “how does one get heaven?” Before any of the regular students could answer, a boy who was [...]

The news media has recently spoken much of the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring is the Arab rebellion or the Arab revolution in the Arab world against dictators. The Arab Spring started in Tunisia in December of 2010, spread to Egypt and is now raging in Libyan. Because of the Arab Spring, Tunisian President Zine [...]

The Mayan calendar allegedly predicts the world will end on December 21, 2012 with catastrophic, apocalyptic events. Journalist Lawrence Joseph forecasted widespread catastrophe in Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization’s End. Books like 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl and Mel Gibson’s 2006 film, Apocalpyto, about Mayan civilization, also have stirred interest. These dooms day prophecies have not just [...]

If you are into “Been there, done that, and got the t-shirt” I hope you purchased “I Survived the Judgment Day in 2011″t-shirt for $20.40 rather than the “Rapture Ready” t-shirt for $19.20. The 6:00 deadline in New Zealand has come and gone with no world-wide earthquake and no rapture. World Magazine reports: “We know [...]

Are you ready for Doomsday on May 21? I asked our waitress on Tuesday. My wife and I overheard our waitress and another waitress discussing the May 21 prediction as they watched one of the 1200 billboard (this one on wheels) roll by the Ruby Tuesday. In her conversation, she said, “There is a part [...]

R. C. Sproul gives an overview of the millennial views. He formerly was amillennial but more recently has changed to preterism.This video series is based on his book The Last Days according to Jesus. Walvoord defines amillennialism in his introduction to Revelation 20: “The amillennial interpretation is essentially a denial that there will be a millennial reign of Christ [...]

A former student asked me this question on Facebook. It was such a good question, I wanted to share the answer in my blog. Here is the question: Dr. White, Im reading Matthew and this caught my attention: “And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the [...]

In this final post, Toussaint addresses other issues in preterism. The preterists say that “all these things” in Matthew 24:29 “refer to the non-bodily, non-personal coming of Christ through the Roman army in the first century” (The End Time Controversy, page 94). Toussaint in a journal article disagrees: “The word ['coming' Gk. parousia] in the New Testament [...]

In this video, Sproul begins to lay his preterist interpretation of the Olivet Discourse by stating that the events predicted by Jesus were fulfilled in A. D. 70. Stanley D. Toussaint discusses the four major views of the Olivet Discourse. The first view is called the critical interpretation. This view does not even believe that [...]