Future Prophecy Fulfilled

    As I hope you, the reader, understand that this blog is intentional in discerning the biblical passages that deal with our future and our hopes through the lens of biblical worldviews, not social media or even news. It should be appreciated that using the Bible to identify the bulk of biblical prophecy and language rather than current events is the aim and heart of the writer in this attempt. Not all things will you necessarily agree with but you may glean some tools for biblical interpretation and usefulness of the history that supports the prophetic claims of the Bible.       Before I begin this journey through biblical texts and some history, I would like to invite you to be open to evaluate the consequences. When dealing with prophecy in the sense that it is either fulfilled or yet to be fulfilled some people will say that it doesn't matter, or that it is not the main point. I beg to differ. About ten years ago, a very close Christian friend of mine...

Some a rguments in support for a physical future temple: 1. 2 Thess. 2:4 speaks of the "man of lawlessness" sitting in the temple of God declaring himself above ever other so-called god. This never happened during the days of the temple when the disciples were preaching. 2. Rev. 11:1-2 speaks of a temple standing. Revelation was written after the destruction of the temple in AD 70 (according to early church fathers) and therefore it must be speaking of a future temple. 3. The passage in Dan. 9:24-27 poses an Antichrist who will set up the "abomination of desolation" and "put an end to sacrifice and offering". If the Antichrist is still future then so are these sacrifices which he must end. 4. The Shekinah (Presence) of God did not dwell in the 2nd temple which Ezekiel 43 prophesies would be in the future temple, a temple which would stand forever. 5. Ezekiel 40-48 speaks of a literal temple so massive and glorious that the 2nd temple could not have ...

      I have realized that as the uneasiness of the world has become a draw on our attention, our hopes as Christians has become a reliance on the future hope and relationship we have in Jesus Christ. For some this takes on the form of looking to the future in an attempt to discover the unvealing of events that culminate in the coming of Jesus. Many signs are sought in the biblical text to try to grapple with an understanding of when and what these events will look like. One such subject is the debate over whether a physical future temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem. According to the interpretation of many scholars and teachers, this stems from passages in Matthew 24:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, and Revelation 11:1-2. These passages are posed as a future prophetic event of the rebuilt temple and something that must occur before the coming of Christ. If this view is correct, what do we do with biblical passages that contradict this interpretation? How does it affect our lives...