We should pray for the people of Japan in the aftermath of the earthquake. A prayer for Japan. Earthquakes and tsunamis are events that should bring us to repentance (Luke 13:2-5), for each of us deserves to be swept into the ocean by a tsunami, and it is only by God’s mercy that we are [...]
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When Metaphors Are Abused by Interpreters
February 15th, 2011 
Alan Kurschner Many pretribulationist theologians have attempted to place a temporal gap of time between the rapture and God’s wrath. For example, John Walvoord has tried to argue that God’s wrath does not immediately begin after the rapture; to be sure, he recognizes that in some sense the Day of the Lord begins immediately after the rapture, [...]
Posted in Day of the Lord Two Unparalleled Periods of Wrath
August 19th, 2010 Charles Cooper Two Unparalleled Periods of Wrath.pdf
Posted in Day of the Lord Part 13 – A Response to “The Uncertainty of the Timing of the Rapture”
December 27th, 2009 Alan Kurschner I am continuing my response to Pastor Bob DeWaay. DeWaay unfoundedly asserts that the prewrath position teaches that: “only the sixth seal is wrath, and nothing else is really the wrath of God.” By this he means that prewrath teaches that God has not expressed his wrath in other forms throughout Church history. This, of [...]
Posted in Day of the Lord The Rapture in Matthew 24:31
November 8th, 2009 Alan Kurschner Here are my slide presentation notes in pdf format on the rapture in Matthew 24:31. I very much enjoyed the fellowship at the conference. Pretribulationists believe that “gather his elect” is a reference to the regathering of Israel at the end of the 70th week of Daniel. Preterists, on the other hand, interpret it as [...]
Absolute Abandonment to God
October 21st, 2009 Alan Kurschner Zephaniah is noted for having one of the most graphic portrayals of the Day of the Lord in the Bible found in chapter one. But we must not stop there for then he gives a call for anguished confession of sin and humble devotion to God so that we may escape the horrible Day of [...]
Fuzzy Chronology
October 16th, 2009 Alan Kurschner Pretribulational John F. Walvoord writes: “‘And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.’ What is meant here is not that the day [...]
A Response to J. Dwight Pentecost on the Day of the Lord
October 12th, 2009 Alan Kurschner Pretribulational teacher J. Dwight Pentecost asserts, If the Day of the Lord did not begin until the second advent, since [the second advent] is preceded by signs, the Day of the Lord could not come as a “thief in the night,” unexpected, and unheralded, as it is said it will come in 1 Thessalonians 5:2. [...]
Tsunamis as a Sign to the Day of the Lord? Yes!
October 10th, 2009 Alan Kurschner The sixth seal informs us that there will be this “huge earthquake” accompanied by a cluster of celestial signs: “Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red;” – Rev 6:11-12 [...]
Posted in Day of the Lord The Awesome Shekinah-Parousia on a Global Scale
June 9th, 2009 Alan Kurschner In my research I am working through a monograph on Biblical theophanies entitled, God At Sinai: Covenant & Theophany in the Bible and Ancient Near East by Jeffrey J. Niehaus (PhD Harvard). He is an expert in Ancient Near Eastern literature and Old Testament theology. I was blessed to have him as a professor when [...]
