I am responding to Eric Douma’s sermon on April 3rd 2011, “The Day of The LORD: A Look at the Imminent Day of Salvation and Judgment.” We continue. Douma claims that the term “birth pangs” in the Bible is a technical term for the day of the Lord. That is, every time it is found [...]
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A Biblical Response to Eric Douma – Part 4
January 27th, 2012 
Alan Kurschner 
Posted in Day of the Lord, Isaiah, Olivet Discourse, Pretribulationism, Prewrath, Thessalonians 1&2 
Tags: Eric Douma A Biblical Response to Eric Douma – Part 3
December 13th, 2011 Alan Kurschner I am responding to Eric Douma’s sermon on April 3rd 2011, “The Day of The LORD: A Look at the Imminent Day of Salvation and Judgment.” We continue. In this part, I will respond to Douma’s repeated error of equating the “thief” imagery with “imminence.” In part one I responded to this misunderstanding as it [...]
A Biblical Response to Eric Douma – Part 2
November 8th, 2011 Alan Kurschner I am responding to Eric Douma’s sermon on April 3rd 2011, “The Day of The LORD: A Look at the Imminent Day of Salvation and Judgment.” We continue. In this part, I will respond to Douma as he posits a distinction between, what he calls, the “Broad Day of the Lord” and the “Narrow Day [...]
A Brief Note on the Fourth Seal of Revelation
October 17th, 2011 Alan Kurschner “(7) Then when the Lamb opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come!” (8) So I looked and here came a pale green horse! The name of the one who rode it was Death, and Hades followed right behind. They were given authority over a fourth of the [...]
Cyprian (c.200–c.258)
October 2nd, 2011 Alan Kurschner Cyprian (c.200–c.258) For you ought to know and to believe, and hold it for certain, that the day of affliction has begun to hang over our heads, and the endof the world and the time of Antichrist to draw near, so that we must all stand prepared for the battle; nor consider anything but the [...]
Posted in Church History, Historicism, Imminence, Preterism, Pretribulationism, Prewrath Tags: church history, cyprian, preterism, Pretribulationism Hippolytus (c.185–c.235)
October 1st, 2011 Alan Kurschner Hippolytus (c.185–c.235) When the times are fulfilled, and the ten horns spring from the beast in the last (times), then Antichrist will appear among them. When he makes war against the saints, and persecutes them, then may we expect the manifestation of the Lord from heaven. (On Daniel, II, 7) [I]n order that when those [...]
Posted in Church History, Preterism, Pretribulationism, Prewrath, Uncategorized Tags: Hippolytus, Pretribulationism, prewrath Tertullian (c.145–c.220)
September 30th, 2011 Alan Kurschner Tertullian (c.145–c.220) Heresies, at the present time, will no less rend the church by their perversion of doctrine, than will Antichrist persecute her at that day by the cruelty of his attacks, except that persecution make seven martyrs, (but) heresy only apostates. (The Prescription Against Heretics, IV) [A]nd that the beast Antichrist with his false [...]
Posted in Church History, Imminence, Preterism, Pretribulationism, Prewrath Tags: Pretribulationism, prewrath, Tertullian Irenaeus (c.120–c.202)
September 29th, 2011 Alan Kurschner Irenaeus (c.120–c.202) And they [the ten kings who shall arise] shall lay Babylon waste, and burn her with fire, and shall give their kingdom to the beast, and put the Church to flight. (Against Heresies, V, 26, 1) And therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly caught up from this, it is [...]
Posted in Church History, Historicism, Imminence, Preterism, Pretribulationism, Prewrath Tags: antichrist, church, history, irenaeus, preterism, Pretribulationism, prewrath Justin Martyr (c.110–c.165)
September 28th, 2011 Alan Kurschner Justin Martyr (c.110–c.165) He [Jesus Christ] shall come from heaven with glory, when the man of apostasy [Antichrist], who speaks strange things against the Most High, shall venture to do unlawful deeds on the earth against us the Christians. (Dialogue with Trypho, CX)
Posted in Church History, Historicism, Preterism, Pretribulationism, Prewrath Tags: Justin Martyr, preterism, Pretribulationism The Shepherd of Hermas (c.95–c.150)
September 27th, 2011 Alan Kurschner The Shepherd of Hermas (c.95–c.150) [Blessed are] you who endure the great tribulation that is coming on, and [blessed are] they who shall not deny their own life. (Vision 2:2) Those, therefore, who continue steadfast, and are put through the fire, will be purified by means of it. . . . But the white part [...]
Posted in Church History, Preterism, Pretribulationism, Prewrath Tags: early church fathers, preterism, Pretribulationism, prewrath 
