Deuteronomy 32: The Forgotten Foundation of Old and New Testament Eschatology
Introduction: When I first began preparing a lecture on Deuteronomy 32 for a Bible conference, I quickly discovered that this passage—though frequently echoed in the New Testament—had been almost entirely neglected in accessible theological literature. That realization sparked the conviction that this Song of Moses, often sung yet rarely studied, needed to be reintroduced to […]
Isaiah Part 3 – Isaiah 63–66: The Day of Vengeance, Redemption, New Jerusalem, and New Heavens and Earth
Introduction This final portion of Isaiah is essential because many Christians assume that the coming of Christ in Matthew 24:30-31, 1 Thessalonians 4:15–17 and 2 Peter 3 describes the end of the physical world . But like Isaiah 65–66, Jesus and Paul use symbolic, apocalyptic language. Both point to the end of the old covenant […]
Isaiah Part 2 – Isaiah 59-62: The Redeemer, the Wedding, and the Appointed Time–Bloodguilt, Jubilee, and the Dawning Light of the New Jerusalem
Introduction In the latter chapters of Isaiah, a stunning convergence of themes reaches its climax: covenantal judgment, bloodguilt recompense, jubilant salvation, and the wedding of the Messiah to His purified bride. Isaiah 59–62 vividly portrays a Redeemer clothed in vengeance, arriving not at the end of world history but at the appointed kairos—God’s divinely set […]
Isaiah Part 1 – Isaiah 2-5 and 24-27: Trumpets, Judgment, and the Wedding Feast–Through the Eyes and Eschatology of Jesus and Paul
Introduction In popular eschatology, the eschatological “gathering” of Matthew 24:31 or the so-called “catching away” or “rapture” of 1 Thessalonians 4:15–17 is often portrayed as a future, global event detached from its Old Testament foundations. But this interpretation not only distorts the apostolic message—it divorces it from the very prophetic texts that Jesus and Paul […]
Daniel Part 3: The Tribulation, Appointed Time of the End and Resurrection of Daniel 12 Fulfilled in AD 70
Introduction As we have seen, Daniel 7 builds upon Daniel 2, and then Daniel 9 absorbs both Daniel 2 and 7. Therefore, it shouldn’t surprise us that Daniel 12 further consolidates these earlier prophecies. Each chapter progressively clarifies the timing and spiritual nature of these events, situating their fulfillment within the Roman Empire era, during […]
Daniel Part 2: Six Crucial Prophetic Events of Daniel 9:24-27 Fulfilled by AD 70
Introduction Daniel 9:24-27 recapitulates and expands the eschatological themes already introduced in Daniel chapters 2 and 7. In Daniel 2 and 7, the Messianic kingdom emerges spiritually from heaven—depicted metaphorically as a stone cut without hands or as the Son of Man descending with the clouds—to judge God’s enemies (stripping dominion from earthly powers) and […]
Daniel Part 1: The Coming of the Stone and the Son of Man Upon the Clouds – Daniel 2 and 7 Fulfilled in AD 70
Introduction Commentators and theologians have long recognized the Book of Daniel as a key source for Jesus’ eschatology. Yet scholarly literature—and even preaching from the pulpit—has often neglected a critical point: both Daniel and Jesus confine the consummation and fulfillment of these prophetic texts to the first-century Church under the Roman Empire. In this three […]
