Antichrist Before the Day of the Lord: What Every Christian Needs to Know about the Return of Christ by Alan Kurschner

Author:Alan Kurschner
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780985363345
Publisher: Eschatos Publishing
Published: 2014-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

Joel, Isaiah, Obadiah, Zephaniah, and Amos are five prophets who display a foreboding picture of God’s eschatological wrath. However, they are not the last word on what the day of the Lord entails. The progressive revelation given in the New Testament will complete our picture.

Jesus on Back-to-Back Rapture and Wrath

There is a pattern in Scripture of God supernaturally rescuing his people just before he executes divine judgment on the wicked. This is memorably attested in the story of God’s plagues against Egypt, culminating in the deliverance of Israel from the hands of Pharaoh’s army that was ultimately destroyed in the Red Sea. This pattern is continued in the context of the eschatological day of the Lord when Paul gives believers the reassuring promise: “For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess. 5:9). The term for “salvation” in this verse is sōtēria. It has two common meanings: salvation in the sense of physical deliverance and salvation in the sense of non-physical deliverance (such as spiritual salvation). Here it takes on the former meaning since this promise is in the context of the rapture and the day of the Lord; thus, for believers, the day of the Lord will not “overtake you like a thief” (1 Thess. 5:4).

This pattern of deliverance before God’s eschatological wrath is especially seen in Jesus’ teaching where he emphasizes the back-to-back nature of deliverance and judgment.

“The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. Then people will say to you, ‘Look, there he is!’ or ‘Look, here he is!’ Do not go out or chase after them. For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage—right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.” (Luke 17:22–27, emphasis mine; cf. Matt. 24:37–41)

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