I have a question about the kings of the east and the motive for Armageddon. I understand that you believe the 6th trumpet judgment is a judgment which decimates the east in war. This is an interesting way of looking at it and I can see where you get that, and I agree that is a plausible explanation.

However, for the bowl judgment concerning the kings of the east, I do not think their motive is to fight with each other. I think it is to fight against the Lord. Psalm 2 describes this futile plan. The bible is clear that the armies at Armageddon do not gather to fight each other. Instead, they are united against a common enemy. That “enemy” I believe, is Christ. I would really like to know your thoughts on this.

Shalom, could you tell me that these 144,00 from the tribes in the book of revelation are in fact a kind of super evangelists in the time of the great tribulation spreading the gospel in Israel when the church is gone, then how can the Holy Spirit be removed?

I guess I must have had my head in the sand for many, many years or something but it never occurred to me so strongly until recently that there are some last day views that write Israel as a Nation out of Revelation.

I guess it is part of the “Church replaces Israel” view but even their views vary. I know that the New Covenant is that all who are to be saved in this day, will be part of the Church, so they include all in Israel who will believe in Christ.

I guess my question is how can they ignore the language of Revelation, the 144,000, Babylon, the 12 tribes, Mt.Zion, The Mount of Olives, etc etc. Do they spiritualize the book of Revelation? Is it seen as all of the O.T. has already taken place or fulfilled before Christ came? I can see the point of all who become saved being the Church but I just cannot see the Church as being Israel.

Thank you for a most fantastic website! A friend of mine told me about this site, and I’m so grateful. This question has been bothering me ever since my friend and I had breakfast last week. I know that Satan was given a lease over the earth for 6000 years. I asked her if we’ve been on the earth for 6000 years yet. If so, then we really are in the last days, and if so, when would the rapture take place? She seemed to indicate most likely somewhere between 2018 and 2037. No one knows the exact time, but do you think this time frame is correct?

Please give us your words of comfort and wisdom. My daughter has a best friend who seems to have given up hope and she is distraught. He has a heart condition which is complicated to explain and he is diabetic. He is not a believer and we have been praying for his salvation. My heart is so heavy and I have been encouraging my daughter to witness to him. Thank you so much and please pray for us.

I would like your opinion on the current trend regarding the “Law of Attraction” and the book/movie “The Secret” Are they considered a false religion? Are they based on Scientology? I have been greatly blessed by your wisdom and insight.

I recently read an article I found very thought provoking about whenever there was a resurrection from the dead i.e. Christ’s and a “few” old testament saints, the two witnesses in Revelation there followed a great earthquake. (The author) was suggesting that maybe there is evidence that the raising of the dead in Christ and those that remain would be in conjunction with a great earthquake.

As I have pondered that possibility, it seems feasible to me simply because of the unbelievable amount of energy that that event might cause. So my question is, if that is a possibility, do you think that the rapture of the church could coincide with God’s deliverance of Israel in the Gog Magog War of Ezekiel 38 & 39?

Thanks for the tremendous articles on a plethora of Biblical topics. Both your site and Rapture Ready are my favorite sites for eschatology.

But I do have a question: Why do most prophecy scholars put the Gog revolution before the tribulation? To me it seems to fit better at the close of the millennium where Israel certainly is living in peace and safety, but Satan is loosed for a short time to again stir up the nations.

Again I want to thank you for the wonderful site. It is regularly visited by myself and others that I have been directing to it. Recently I read an article claiming that the first beast of Rev. 13 is a kingdom and the second beast is both the anti-Christ and the False Prophet.

Over the years as I have studied these things there has been something within me that seems to say they are one and the same, too. What I’ve read regarding them being two separate individuals has always had problems washing with my own studying of God’s Word. What’s your opinion?

Why did Jacob love Joseph more than any of his other 11 sons? It says that he loved Joseph more because he was born to him of old age, but how does that make him love Joseph more?