Question: will God’s people be taken away when Jesus comes back or before? Answer:   Among all who believe in the physical, bodily rapture of believers, I do not think that there is any debate on this question.  All will agree that God’s people will be raptured (taken up physically to meet Jesus) BEFORE Jesus comes back. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and …

Question: Is heaven christians home or will the new earth be? Answer: In modern vocabulary, we tend to think of everything in terms of “heaven” and “hell.”  But when you look at Revelation 20-22, which describes the final places which are made for all people, you see that the eternal home of all people will be either “the new heavens & the new earth” or “the lake of fire.”  But it’s not just the new …

Question: How can you be certain that the 10 kingdoms are the European Federation? Could the world and its nations look significantly different 1000 years from now? Answer: This is a great question.  As we heard the sermon preached, I was initially thinking the same thing — ‘Can we be confident that the 10 kingdoms arise from Europe?’  About two-thirds of the way through the sermon on Sunday, it clicked.  Yes.  You can be certain.  …

Question: Why insert a gap after the 4th kingdom (in Daniel 7)? A regular read would put u in the 10th Roman ruler in Christ’s day. Nero came out of this. Doesn’t that make more sense than some still future guy? Answer: As stated during the message last Lord’s day, we affirm that God’s Word is to be interpreted as any other form of written communication using the normal rules of  language and grammar (Neh 8:8).  So when …

Question: Is it necessary to believe in a literal 1,000 year kingdom? Can’t “the kingdom” refer to the eternal new heaven and earth? Answer: Thank you for the question.  The matter of how one interprets the Scriptures is very important.  At FBC, we would interpret Revelation 20:4-6 literally. (The literal method of interpretation is that method that gives to each word the exact basic meaning it would have in normal, ordinary, customary usage. This is …