Bible Prophecy Daily

Jake McCandless turns to the current conflict in Israel. Hamas’ brutal attack and Israel's retaliation has set the world on fire. Horrific scenes have filled our newsfeeds, but Jake shares from the prophets how the current tragedy pales in comparison to the end of the age.

Though this current conflict isn’t the end of the age, Jake shares how it is a microcosm of the end. The full elements prophesied at the end of the age are on display now and we need to take notice. We can learn how things will be at the end of the age and how we can navigate them. It’s crucial that we let the current conflict illuminate the prophesied future.

David Rosenthal, President of Zion's Hope, explains the real reason Israel is under siege as the world continues to watch the war in Gaza.

The Jewish people believe, as right-believing Christians also believe, that God gave land with definite boundaries to Israel as an everlasting inheritance. The conflict over that land is rooted in who sovereignly gave the land.

David also examines the historical account of God's covenant with Abraham, and how that covenant goes beyond land to the redemptive purpose of God through His covenant people Israel.

Marquis Laughlin examines what the scriptures teach us about the “Law of the Prophet”.  When everyone has an opinion on what the latest war in the Middle East means “according to Bible prophecy”, how do you know who to listen to? And what should we do when the teachers we love make predictions about Bible prophecy that don’t come true?

Ron Wallace reviews the two advents of the Messiah and then looks at several key comparisons to the rapture event and the so-called "separate" second coming event. He discusses:

The Timing Factor

The Visibility Factor

The Glory Factor

The Power Factor

The Angels Factor

and will give special attention to The Trumpet Factor

Michael Ufferman, one of Zion’s Hope’s teaching staff, discusses the appearance of the Angel of the Lord to Gideon. Gideon initially discerned the person he was talking with was a normal person. However, at a certain point, Gideon realized he was likely talking with God Himself. This “person” was the physical manifestation of our Triune God. In Gideon’s case, he was communicating with the third nature of God, the physical nature. This would have been the physical manifestation of God before He condescended to be born of the Virgin Mary.

The series continues in Part 6.

Chris White explains his views about the current Israel Palestinian conflict. He weights the pros and cons of the different theories that have been proposed as to if the situation truly is fulfilling certain prophecies and if so, which ones?

Chris also has these additional video resources for today's discussion:

A Bible Prophecy Timeline - All Parts in One Video

Gog Magog War Study

The Psalm 83 "War" Problem

The Islamic Antichrist Debunked | A Comprehensive Critique

The Islamic Antichrist Theory Debunked - Full 8 Hour Audiobook

David Rosenthal, President of Zion's Hope, recently interviewed Dr. Alan Kurschner, founder of Eschatos Ministries and the producer of Bible Prophecy Daily. This interview was conducted at an Open Bible Studio Electives meeting at Zion’s Hope headquarters in Winter Garden, FL.

David begins with some background about Alan, discusses his books, and then turns to current events.

Highlighting the current war in Israel, together they address the spiritual battle that has been raging against Israel for generations.

Dr. Alan Kurschner adduced five reasons why the Bible teaches a literal, personal Antichrist figure and not a figurative, impersonal Antichrist. The Bible uses many descriptions and titles for this eschatological Antichrist figure. The term "Antichrist" is the most popular. Historicists (most) and Idealists deny a literal personal Antichrist, construing instead an impersonal embodiment such as "government" or a "principle of evil."

The five reasons Dr. Kurschner gave are as follows:

1. John in his epistle in 1 John 2:18, 22 refers to a personal Antichrist figure. He describes an already-not-yet sense of Antichrist.

2. Jesus in his Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24:15 draws from the prophet Daniel's writing on the Antichrist figure, highlighting his desolating actions and personifying that action with "standing."  Mark's account in Mark 13:14 indicates the personal attribute of the Antichrist being masculine, as well as "standing."

3. The apostle Paul provides the most explicit teaching that the Antichrist will be a real person, describing him with many personal pronouns and calling him "the man of lawlessness" and "the son of destruction."

4. The book of Revelation describes Antichrist (i.e., the Beast) as a literal personal figure. It was explained that figurative language points to something. The book of Revelation uses very rich figurative language to describe literal, personal figures (e.g., Jesus, Satan, and the Antichrist, etc.).

5. The early church document, the Didache, from the first century explicitly interprets Jesus's teaching as referring to a real, literal Antichrist: "And then the deceiver of the world will appear as a son of God and will perform signs and wonders, and the earth will be delivered into his hands, and he will commit abominations the likes of which have never happened before” (Didache 16:4).

Links mentioned in the program:

https://www.alankurschner.com/antichrist-before-the-day-of-the-lord/

Michael Ufferman, a member of Zion’s Hope’s teaching staff, digs deeper into the physical manifestations of God (the pre-incarnate Christ) as seen in God’s first testament (the Old Testament). In this episode, Part 4, Michael identifies situations when God did not appear to His people as the Angel of the Lord, and yet His appearance was clearly God in a physical form.

The series continues in Part 5.

Nelson Walters answers questions like: "Where are we in the end times?" and "When might the 70th Week of Daniel begin?" These are among the most common, if not the most common, questions Christians ask about End Times. And here is the shocker: Christians have been asking these questions for two thousand years! So if you’re asking, you're in pretty good company.

In this episode, we're going to let Jesus’ own words answer your questions. But we’re going to look at them through the disciples' eyes, based on what the disciples had just experienced and what they heard and understood.