Bible Study series: Mark 13:1-31. This is not his final Second Coming, but his judgment on Jerusalem and the temple. It happened from A.D. 66-70, in Jesus’s generation, just as he said. It would have been odd if he had not predicted this major upheaval. Roman generals stomped all over the temple and committed the “abomination of desolation.”
Bible Study series: Luke 10:13-16. Not every judgment is equal. Some sins are worse than others.
Bible Study series: Matthew 12:38-42. He did not grant their request, but told them of another prophet and his sign.
Bible Study series: John 12:44-50. Jesus loves the world, and now his word (message) judges them. It will also judge them on the last day.
This post launches a new section of Theology 101. Start here. What did Jesus and the apostolic community really believe about the Second Coming, according to the New Testament? Did they believe in a pre-tribulation rapture and then a Second Coming? Or did all of them have a simple and streamlined and consistent and unified view of the end?
God is loving and merciful, but how far do those attributes go at final judgment? Let’s explore this complex issue.
This is the last post in the Eschatology section of Theology 101. The book of the Revelation reverses Genesis. This doctrine is glorious.
Bible Study series: Matthew 11:20-24. If you reject Jesus, you put your soul in peril. The same goes for entire towns.
Bible Study series: Matthew 3:1-13.John was a ferocious prophet. What can we learn from him in our lives today?
I would be derelict in my duty as a teacher not to discuss this very biblical truth.
Jesus tells the Israelites to repent or perish like the ones whom Pilate slaughtered or like those workers on whom a tower fell. He tells the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree. He delivers a woman from a disabling spirit. He tells the short illustration of the mustard seed and leaven. He tells people to enter by the narrow door. Finally, he laments over Jerusalem.
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