Bible Prophecy Daily

Jake McCandless talks about the Millennial Kingdom by looking at the location of the “dead” throughout the different ages.

The goal isn’t to argue points about Heaven, but to show that one of the reasons believers aren’t standing firm or living sold-out lives is because we have oversimplified Heaven. Scripture reveals that the dead are in a different location throughout the unfolding of the different ages.

Jake also mentions his new children’s book, Jesus and His Kingdom, available at www.standfirmstore.com

Nelson Walters explores some of the parallels of the Exodus in the Book of Revelation.

Many Christians are unaware that the Exodus account acts as an analogy, or parable of sorts, for the events in Revelation. In fact, the majority of the events in Revelation are analogous to the events of the Exodus. The 10 plagues Moses and Aaron called down upon Egypt are similar in a multitude of ways to the Trumpet and Bowl Judgment. The final plague, the death of the firstborn of the Egyptians in particular has a parallel in the Rapture, and the salvation of the 144,000.

Ron Wallace presents the view that Revelation 14:14-20 portrays the initiation of The Day of the Lord judgments that will begin with the Trumpets and conclude with the 7th Bowl and the battle of Armageddon. This is in contrast with the view that Revelation 14:14-16 portrays the rapture of the church.

Our differences on some of these details should never be a cause for disharmony but should simply encourage all of us to study carefully and fine-tune our own understandings of the entire context of Scripture.

Dr. Michael Weis explores two words in Defining End Times Terms… Biblically. He first covers the popular doctrine or teaching of imminence, or the belief that Jesus could come "at any moment." Is it a Biblical teaching? Or, does the Bible teach something very different, which is defined as expectancy?

Listen, as these two terms are defined, explored and as we learn which one the Bible teaches.

Marquis Laughlin speaks about what we can learn from the example Jesus gives us of Lot’s wife.

Why did Jesus tell us to remember her when He spoke about His return? What does the story of Sodom and Gomorrah reveal about The Day of the Lord, the timing of the rapture, and God’s Wrath? What does Jesus specifically tell us to do to avoid her fate?

Holly Pivec reveals the first six, of 13, clues for spotting NAR's counterfeit revival.

In this episode Holly shows six signs that indicate a song, sermon, or event is promoting an unbiblical NAR revival. These signs include practices like “fire tunnels” and “prayer declarations,” the preaching of NAR's distorted “gospel of the kingdom,” and prophecies about the “Seven Mountain Mandate.”

Dr. Alan Kurschner gave two quick announcements before he started talking about today's topic: (1) Register for the upcoming Ark Encounter & Bible Prophecy Event. (2) and if you are not subscribed to it, the next issue of Biblical Prophecy Magazine is coming out next month!

Dr. Kurschner talked about a predicted prophecy event that must take place before the rapture. In this case, it took place before AD 95.

Then the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak to me again, “Go and take the open scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.” So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take the scroll and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.” So I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it, and it did taste as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter. Then they told me: “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.” (Rev 10:8–11)

John is given a commission that he "must" (δεῖ) "prophesy" (προφητεύω) again about what will happen to “many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.” John is commissioned to prophesy about the contents of this scroll. Exactly what the “sweet” and “bitter” refers to is debated among interpreters. The bitterness likely refers to the judgment that will fall upon the nations. Nevertheless, the point I want to highlight is that John is told to prophesy again. Whether the book of Revelation was written in AD 95, which is much more likely, or before AD 70 is not relevant. The point is that Jesus’s return to rapture the church could not have happened before John would carry out God’s plan of prophesying. Jesus’s return was not imminent before the book of Revelation was written and circulated and read among the seven churches:

Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches—to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. . . . Therefore write what you saw, what is, and what will be after these things. (Rev 1:11, 19; cf. Rev 4:1)

Many pretribulation interpreters have read these verses multiple times in their lifetime not realizing that the teaching therein contradicts imminence theology, because these events would have to occur before Jesus returns. This is another prophecy among others recorded in the Bible that must happen in the lives of the apostles, in this case, the apostle John. Once again, imminence theology is found wanting.

Jake McCandless talks about one image that, if we can have in our mind, we will not only know the final events of this age, but we will also know the trajectory of world events running from now until then.

Jake takes five passages spanning the Old Testament and New Testament that all show one final end-time event. The five passages are: Zechariah 14:1-4, Ezekiel 38:1-21, Psalm 2:1-2, Revelation 16:12-16, and Revelation 19:11-20:4 . These four passages all build one image. This image isn’t unique to the end of the age, for it has occurred multiple times throughout history.

Listen in and learn about this one image that can help you know the ebb and flow of world events now, and until Jesus returns.

Ron Wallace discusses the expectation of the church concerning the second coming of Jesus. The expectation of the church was – and is – NOT that Christ can return at any moment!  It is the FACT that Christ will indeed come again, but only according to the wisdom and timing of the plan of God.  Jesus taught that there are things that must happen before He comes back.  And UNTIL He returns and takes us to Himself, we are to proclaim the gospel message throughout the world, waiting with patience for the fulfillment of His promise.

Nelson Walters discusses when the Wrath of God begins in the midst of the 70th Week of Daniel. Nelson provides evidence from a number of Old Testament references including Genesis’ Noah account, Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy, Leviticus’ discussion of Sabbatical and Jubilee cycles, and end-time passages from Isaiah. The episode begins with an analysis of Noah’s Flood, because the Flood itself is a type or analogy of the coming Wrath of God.

In view of this prophetic relationship with Noah's Flood, be sure to check out the upcoming Bible Prophecy Event at the Ark Encoutner, May 19-20. Click here for details.