The Biblical Prophecy Program with Dr. Alan Kurschner Dr. Alan Kurschner

[*This is a special program from Bible Prophecy Daily being played today on The Biblical Prophecy Program]

Dr. Kurschner announced the release of the new book, The Future Restoration of Israel: A Response to Supersessionism. It was six years in the making and the most extensive book written on the topic of Israel’s Future.

It is written by 20 scholars and co-edited by Dr. Kurschner and Stanley Porter.

Get it on Amazon or the publisher’s site.

 

 

 

Dr. Kurschner announced that Eschatos Ministries will be sponsoring a Bible Prophecy seminar at the Ark Encounter, including the Ark Encounter experience.

Then he focused on explaining the meaning of “one taken and one left” in Matthew 24.

 

 

 

Dr. Kurschner examines whether 1 Corinthians 11:26 (‘until he comes’) refers to an imminent return for his church:“For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

Some pretribulationists think this verse indicates an imminent rapture since Paul does not mention any event that happens before Jesus’ coming. For example, Gerald B. Stanton writes, “We must ‘occupy’ till He comes, even as in the Lord’s Supper, we ‘do shew the Lord’s death till he come’ (1 Cor. 11:26). These expressions emphasize the imminency of the return of Christ, rather than denying it” (emphasis his). This is another example of reading into Paul’s message a colossal assumption of imminence. It ignores Paul’s purpose that he “received from the Lord what I also passed on to you” (1 Cor 11:23). He is concerned about the believer’s proper behavior and attitude behind the participation of Lord’s supper, where the eating the bread and drinking the cup functions to be an ongoing proclamation of the believer’s allegiance to the Lord for what he did for us on the cross. Believers are to examine their lives in light of who they are in Christ, and “in remembrance” of Jesus’ death they should look back to the cross and its meaning in their life continually until the Lord himself returns. The eschatological note to Jesus’s Parousia reminds believers that the sacramental consummate goal awaits the Supper of the Lamb.

There is no hint from Paul being concerned about making an imminence statement. To read imminence theology wholesale into Paul’s statement is first rank eisegesis. Paul’s purpose in this passage is not to discuss whether certain prophesied events will occur before the Lord’s coming or what they are, as he does elsewhere (2 Thess 2:1–4). To make this into an imminence proof text is to hijack Paul’s sacramental message for one’s preconceived theology.

 

 

 

I am pleased to announce that my new book is NOW available!



You can purchase it from Amazon.

 



Here is a description from the back of the book:



Does God Work with Israel and the Church at the Same Time?

Is There a Connection between the Rapture and the Second Coming?

In the first part of Pretrib, Dr. Alan Kurschner makes the case that God has worked with both Israel and the church at the same time in the past, and he continues to do so at this time, and he will work with both at the same time in the future.

In the second half of the book, Dr. Kurschner contends that the rapture is neither disconnected from, nor identified with, the second coming. Rather, the rapture belongs to the second coming.

The implication from the author’s examination reveals that while church saints will be raptured before the day of the Lord’s wrath, they will first encounter the Antichrist’s great tribulation.

By reading Pretrib: Examining the Foundations of Pretribulation Rapture Theology, you will be walked through compelling lines of biblical reasoning that harmonizes all the evidence into a coherent picture.

Sometimes we need to take a step backwards to challenge long-held beliefs, in order to get a running start and discover new, biblical ways of seeing truths. This book helps to do just that.





 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretrib: Examining the Foundations of Pretribulation Rapture Theology (Rice Lake, WI: Eschatos Publishing, 2022)

 

 

 

This is a dialogue on what the early church taught on the second coming of Jesus. The speakers are Steve Gregg (Preterist), Charles Cooper (Prewrath), and Thomas Ice (Pretribulational). They were each given fifteen minutes to describe their position, followed by questions and interaction. This eschatology dialogue was recorded in O’Fallon Missouri at an eschatology forum (in 2009, give or take a year).

 

 

 

Barry Horner delivered the final session of six from the “Future Israel, Future Millennium” Bible prophecy conference that was recorded January 16, 2016 in Glendora, California. He spoke on “Eternal Israel – Forever with the Lord, Matthew 19:28.” The three speakers were Dr. Alan E. Kurschner, Joel Richardson, and Barry E. Horner.

“And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” (Matt 19:28)