THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECYAANTICHRIST Part I BIBLICAL PROPHECIES CLEARLY predict the rise of the Antichrist in the end times and more than 100 passages of Scripture describe the Antichrist’s origin, nationality, character, career, and global conquest. The term Antichrist may be applied both to an individual and to the system he represents. Interestingly, the […]
THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECYANGELS Part IITHE CLASSIFICATION OF ANGELS The Bible describes several kinds of angels: • Cherubim are the highest class of angels. They attend the glory, holiness, and majesty of God (Ezekiel 1:514). • Seraphim are “burning ones” or angelic incendiaries who are ablaze with the glory of God and continually announce His triune […]
THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECY ANGELS Part I THE BIBLE REFERS TO ANGELS more than 300 times as real, personal, created spirit beings. Many theologians believe that God created all angels on the first or second day of creation (see Psalm 104:4). Angels can be good or evil. Demons were once angels, but they […]
THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECYAMILLENNIALISM Part III After being persecuted in Derbe, Paul and Barnabas returned to some of the cities where they had won converts to Christ and sought to give them advice: “Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22). If they were in the kingdom, this statement […]
THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECYAMILLENNIALISM Part IIAMILLENNIALISM AND THE CHURCH FATHERS In the East, Eusebius of Caesarea (263–339), the court theologian to Constantine and theological heir of Origen, was a strong leader in the rejection of apocalypticism. With the rise of Constantine and the adoption of Christianity as the empire’s official religion, alternate perspectives […]
THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECY AMILLENNIALISM Part I AMILLENNIALISM TEACHES THAT there will be no literal, future 1000-year reign of Christ on earth. Most amillennialists believe that a spiritual form of the kingdom is present now. Systematic amillennialism was the second of the three major eschatological views to develop; it was first taught within […]
THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECY AGES OF TIME Part IIChrist’s Perspective of Bible Prophecy Jesus uses the same vocabulary in the same way when He says in Matthew 12:32, “Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven […]
THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECY AGES OF TIME Part I AN IMPORTANT BIBLICAL PHRASE in Bible prophecy is “the age to come.” A understanding of a related term, “the present age,” is also necessary for properly interpreting biblical prophecy. “The present age” refers to the current church age that began almost 2000 years ago […]
THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECY ESCHATOLOGY OF ACTS Part IIITHE RESURRECTION AND JUDGMENT OF ALL PEOPLEIn his address at Athens, Paul announced that the God who is creator of all is also judge of all.He has even fixed the day and appointed the Judge (Acts 17:30-32). The resurrection of this Judge, Jesus Christ, provides […]
THE POPULAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLE PROPHECY ESCHATOLOGY OF ACTS Part IIAMOS’ KINGDOM PROPHECY AND THE EARLY CHURCHAt the Jerusalem Council of Acts 15, James, the pastor at Jerusalem, quotes the Old Testament prophet Amos (9:11-12) to show that the salvation of many Gentiles during the days of the early church should not be surprising because […]