The ideas of Hell and the Lake of Fire terrify many Christians. But what did Jesus say about these topics? Jesus consistently used the word Gehenna when speaking about what would come to pass. But it was systematically changed in the Bible thereby changing the meaning of many passages. This should trouble us. My online …
As I have continued to study eschatology over the past few years, I often come across explanations that seem so obvious I wonder how anyone misses it. This was one of those things. Jesus fulfilled the seven feasts found in Leviticus between the cross and 70 AD (the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the …
Many of us have been taught our entire lives that Revelation is a complex codebook showing us a frightening future. But what if we’ve been looking in the wrong direction? What if the book is not a roadmap for global chaos, but a glorious, finished testimony of our Lord’s triumph in history? Revelation is considered …
Christians trust the people who translate the Bible. How would it make you feel to discover that these Bible translators systematically and deliberately leave out a crucial word (melló) over and over again in the New Testament? What if leaving this word out completely changes how you might understand passages about the End of the …
I left a comment on my post Were the Apostles Wrong About Jesus’ Return? in which I said I would expand on this topic in a full post. As it turns out, it worked better to put it into two posts. The first expansion is in this post: The World (oikoumené) in the New Testament. …
The idea that there is some future “ultimate fulfillment” of the Biblical prophecies is a troubling one. The Old Testament prophecies pointed to the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ. Jesus fulfilled the prophesies. To suggest that His work was somehow not enough to complete what the Father said He would do is… very troubling. And yet …
The World (oikoumené) Below are all of the uses of the Greek word oikoumené in the New Testament. Verses are quoted from the Berean Standard Bible. Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world (oikoumené) as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Luke …
