Thursology

The Post-Trib Rapture view holds that the Church will go through the entire Tribulation. Then, believers who've survived the 7 years will be caught up to be with Christ in the air as part of a complex 2nd Coming event as He descends to Earth to win the Battle of Armageddon. In this session, Dr. Dan will explore some of the biblical challenges to this view. For example, since the prophetic Scr...

We've now worked through the strengths and weaknesses of the Pre-Trib and Mid-Trib Rapture timing views. And now we're ready to look at the Post-Trib view. Will the Church go through the Tribulation...and be subject to being hunted down by the global forces of darkness? Will we face the worldwide 666 Mark of the Beast campaign and be forced to worship the Antichrist...or be executed for refusing?...

In our series on the timing of the Rapture, we've now come to the Mid-Trib View. Proponents of this view believe that the Revelation 11 event...where the Two Witnesses are resurrected and caught up into heaven...is a picture of Christ coming for the Church...exactly halfway through the 7-Year Tribulation. In this session, Dr. Dan unpacks the strengths and weaknesses of the Mid-Tribulational Raptur...

We've seen that the Pre-Trib View teaches that the Church will be removed before the Tribulation, allowing for the Last Seven Years to unfold for Israel. But those who believe that God is done with Israel (Replacement Theology)...and don't believe that the Israel will be the focus of the Tribulation...are actually making a grave theological error that actually has the implication of risking...not...

We've seen that the Pre-Trib View teaches that the Church will be removed before the Tribulation, allowing for the Last Seven Years to unfold for Israel. But those who believe that God is done with Israel (Replacement Theology)...and don't believe that the Israel will be the focus of the Tribulation...are actually making a grave theological error that actually has the implication of risking...not...

The Pre-Trib view does a good job of integrating the centuries of the Gap between the 69th and 70th "weeks" of Daniel...and the fundamental biblical Covenants.  The integration precisely and fully provides for the fulfillment of both the Old and New Testament Covenants and...according the the Pre-Trib advocates...marvelously resolves many theological issues that have...

A biblical “mystery” is an event or concept that appears in the New Testament…but was not anticipated by the Old Testament. And there are surprisingly few of them (only 12 or 13). In tonight's teaching, we'll find that the Mysterious Gap between Daniel's 69th and 70th "weeks" uncovers one of the most surprising of all biblical mysteries. And...we'll see that the unpacking...

This week we deal with the 5th Strength of Pre-Trib Rapture View: This view squares perfectly with the Mysterious Gap between Daniel's 69th and 70th groups of seven years. Download notes here

We continue to look at the Pre-Trib Rapture Timing and the arguments made by the proponents of this view. Tonight's teaching uncovers that Revelation chapters 2 & 3 are all about the Church...but then it vanishes for the rest of The Revelation...and Israel is prominent throughout the Tribulation. Download notes here

In this series on the biblical strengths and weakness of the 3 classic Rapture views...we continue to look at the Pre-Trib Rapture Timing and the arguments made by the proponents of this view.  And tonight's teaching leads us to learn what the Scripture says about an event that most believers will be very surprised about..."The Judgment Seat of Christ." Download the notes here

The Pre-Trib Rapture view believes that, before the beginning of the 7-year Tribulation, Christ will return for His Church, resurrect dead believers, transform the bodies of His living followers into immortal bodies, and catch us away to meet Him in the air. This will leave everyone else behind to live through the cataclysmic Tribulation, with its judgments and global disasters, and to face t...

After the preparation we’ve done in the last 3 weeks…we’re ready to study the three Rapture Timing Views that have survived the test of time in the Church. These views are believed by 100s of millions of followers of Christ around the world.  We’ll see what the proponents of the Pre-Trib, the Mid-Trib, and the Post-Trib Rapture views teach about when Christ will catch His Bride up into the ai...

Controversies reign in the arena of Rapture timing.  But, despite the differences that exist between the proponents of the Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, and Post-Trib views, there are a lot of aspects about the Rapture that aren’t controversial at all .  This we begin with what we know for sure about the Rapture.  In this session, we’ll cover the details of the biblical descriptions of w...

In our series about the Last Days…we’ve come to what the Bible teaches about the Rapture: The future event when the Lord comes for His Church, resurrects the dead in Christ, and in a twinkling of an eye…changes the bodies of living believers into their eternal resurrection bodies. Tonight, we begin this series by laying the groundwork of understanding what will go on during the last 7 years o...

Left Behind ???  At some point in the future…will the Church vanish...leaving billions of people to live through the most horrendous time in history?  Or will the Church go through the Great Tribulation along with the rest of the world? In response to these questions, Dr. Dan is launching a new Thursology series entitled, “Left Behind!!! Will the Church be Raptured Before the Tribul...

Did Jesus have a bizarre, pathological need to make it look like he was the Jewish Messiah? So say many "scholars" who have posited the "Passover Plot." The story goes like this: Jesus and his band of deluded followers set up a masquerade to help him meet as many prophecies as possible...and to steal the body after he died...to make it look as if he was raised from the dead. This week, Dr. Dan dem...

Leading up to Easter, Dr. Dan is teaching about the Preposterous Messianic claims of Christ...and how Jesus astonishingly met and fulfilled all of them. But this week we take on the most serious threat to Jesus' Messiahship. Joseph, the father of Jesus, came from the line of King Jehoiakin...and the Prophet Jeremiah proclaimed that, because of his persistent evil, none of his descendants could sit...

In this mini-series leading up to Easter, Dr. Dan is teaching about the Preposterous Messianic claims of Christ...and how Jesus astonishingly met and fulfilled all of them. And this week we learn of the stunning precision of God threading the historical needle so that...just as mandated by the Prophets...the Messiah was born BEFORE Rome removed the right of declaring capital punishment from I...

As we enter the Passover Season, Dr. Dan is launching a Thursology series about the preposterous Messianic claims of Christ. During the four weeks leading up to Easter, we will look at the remarkable fulfillment of prophecy in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. For example, did you know that the Old Testament prophecies...combined with specific historical events that occurred during t...

In this series on the implications of the Great Tribulation, we're dealing with the Problem of Evil. And this week we look at the issue of who is responsible for the sins we commit.  Some people have humorously said of their sins, "The Devil made me do it!" But you might be surprised to find out that there is controversy in Christian thought about who causes evil.  Calvinist theologian E...

Last week we learned what forgiveness ISN'T.  And now we're ready to see how the Jacob and Esau story gives us the steps and actions to take to bring about true forgiveness and the defeat of evil.  While it's not easy...truly forgiving those who have hurt us brings miraculous freedom...and we'll see how this can bring about joy and release of bondage in our lives. Download notes here

One of the clear teachings of Jesus is that we must forgive those who have mistreated us. However, one problem among believers is that misunderstanding and misteaching sometimes places undue (and untrue) expectations on us of what forgiveness actually means. In this session, Dr. Dan teaches through the story of Jacob and Esau to show what foregiveness ISN'T . Many people who may have been struggli...

Most of us have had things done wrong to us …by others .  Like the time someone lied about us…or when our boss treated us unfairly…or when we got punished for something we didn’t do…or when someone cheated us.  But during this session, we're going to "put the shoe on the other foot" and not let ourselves off the hook.  In other words, while we’ve all been hurt by  oth...

In #69, we unpack "victimhood" by looking at 3 Key Concepts: #1: Whether you’re a true victim or not…if victimhood becomes your IDENTITY…it will DEFINE and CONTROL your life! #2: You must BREAK the bondage of victimhood…not by BEING a victim…but by REFUSING to be a victim! #3: The only PERFECT victim  in all of history…didn...

In #68, we discover a really surprising biblical truth: The reason a good  God allows calamity is because…sometimes…the best thing for people is pain !!!  And even more amazing is the fact that God can use intentional evil done against us…to make us better than if we had never experienced the suffering !!!  In this session, we study the life of Joseph and see how...even though he wa...