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Archive for May, 2011

The Rapture Question Decisively Answered by the Timing of the Day of the Lord

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

The rapture debate has raised the question of whether the references to a trumpet that sounds after the tribulation (Mt 24:31; Rev 10:7; 11:15) should be identified with, or distinguished from Paul’s ‘last trump’ (1Cor 15:52; 1Thes 4:16)? Where we locate the day of the Lord will be decisive for this question. Consider the following [...]

More on the Two Witnesses

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

I’ve struggled in my interpretation of this section about the “two witnesses” for a long time. My question is about the identity of the two witnesses. Corporate witnesses or individuals? It is written, “These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.” (Rev 11:4) And in Rev. [...]