BPT 2.0 – Straight Talk About Pestilence in Bible Prophecy – #Coronavirus #Covid19

First of all I talk about my thoughts about the coronavirus in general, as I have been following it pretty closely and and more or less fascinated by it, partially because of the possibility of it sparking a revolution in China. In the second half of the podcast I talk about why I dont think this #covid19 virus has anything to do with Bible prophecy, but I also explain what kind of criteria a virus needs to have in order to be a match for the one found in Matthew 24 or Revelation 6.

BTP 2.0 – Michael The Restrainer of 2 Thess 2 – and Hitchcock Part 2

In this episode I mainly lay out the case for the Archangel Michael being the restrainer of 2 Thessalonians 2. I also finish up the series on Mark Hitchcock that I started in the last podcast..

Notes: MICHAEL, THE RESTRAINER REMOVED (2 THESS. 2:6—7) by Colin Nicholl

BPT 2.0 – The Precursor Problem

In this episode I talk about the laundry list of explicit precursors to the Day of the Lord in the Bible and how they relate to the rapture debate. I also go through the three options that pretibulationalists have to deal with this problem, none of them are particularly good.

BPT 2.0 – Eternal Life is a Sweet Deal and The Wheat & Tares Problem

In this episode I speculate about what life after death might really be like, and then get into some issues surrounding the interpretations of the parable of the weeds and how the average pretrib interpretation inevitably leads to a very weird place.

Show Notes:

Revelation 14:14-16 Pictures the Rapture – Orange Mailman Blog

Contemporary Interpretative Problems: — The Resurrection of Israel – John Walvoord

A Reply to Jeff Durbin’s Mishandling the ‘Left Behind’ Passage – Alan Kurschner