Posts Categorized: Millennial Kingdom

Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 12-20-23: Will the Tribulation Temple Also Be Ezekiel’s Millennial Temple?

Posted by Gary Ritter |

We’re going to have a little fun today. Well, it’s fun for me; I don’t know for all the rest of you. Because I’m a fiction author, I engage in a lot of “what if” speculations. That’s the only way to write fiction. You have to go down various rabbit trails at times to come up with something that hopefully works and ties all strands of the story together.

I do similar mental gymnastics in my Bible prophecy discussions. In order to try to put scenarios together that attempt to tie in all aspects of a prophetic situation, I think it’s necessary to do some thought experiments. That’s what we’ll do today in our “what if” discussion.

Biblical Audio Commentary – Tribulation Desolation: Good Luck, Post-Tribbers!

Posted by Gary Ritter |

This is a never-ending source of fascination for me: How is it that those who adhere to a post-Tribulation Rapture perspective can actually look forward to those horrific seven years of God’s wrath and judgment?  And they do.  There is almost a glee about many of them as they consider these coming difficult times.  In their thinking: Oh, they’ll be shielded by God and also be performing astounding miracles.  I think some see themselves symbolically as the Two Witnesses.  They’ll live in protected, sustainable communities apart from all those on the receiving end of God’s punishment.  It’ll be a glorious time, unlike any other ever experienced on the earth for them. Well, they’ve got that last part right.

Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 7-5-23: Timing of Gog-Magog War

Posted by Gary Ritter |

Bible prophecy teachers are seldom in lockstep about various events in Scripture.  One of the seminal prophecies that causes disagreement is the War of Gog-Magog as recounted in Ezekiel 38-39.  Although this is among the most detailed of foretellings in the Bible, there are several different takes on when it will occur.

Biblical Audio Commentary – Wandering in Darkness

Posted by Gary Ritter |

God decreed to the Israelites that they were to observe seven feasts during the year in His honor.  Three of those feasts required a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This is the key for our Commentary today: The pilgrimage for and celebration of this feast was to remember His provision and protection during the 40 years in the wilderness.

Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 11-23-22: Generational Decline

Posted by Gary Ritter |

As we survey the debris in these last days of this lost, dying, and radically unbelieving world, there are many causes and explanations for the decline that is leading inevitably toward God’s wrath and judgment that will culminate in the 7-year Tribulation.