Please explain the relationship between the Rapture and the appearance of the Anti-Christ. I have understood that the Church and the Restrainer must be gone before AC can “appear.” If the End is as near as we believe, AC must be alive in the world now, but we are still here. Therefore, the man is not the AC yet. If AC cannot be revealed until the Restrainer is gone, that seems to imply that the Church will never see the man in his role of AntiChrist. He may be around, stirring in the pot for months or years before he is revealed as the AC, and he becomes the AC only after the Rapture.

Thank you so much for your wonderful teachings, and sharing your knowledge of biblical prophecy. My question is: If after the crucifixion Jesus descended into hell for 3 days, how is it He told one of the men being crucified with Him they’d be together in Paradise before the day was over?

The current NG cover and cover article is on the found skeletons of a 4 Millions Year Old Woman, Ardipithecus Ramidus, Oldest Hominid Skeleton in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia. How do we reconcile this skeleton. Yes, there can be flaws in carbon dating. Could The Flood produce such pressure that it creates the illusion of items being older than they really are? Technology is getting better every day to reduce flaws in dating. Could skeletons such as these be from the original world prior to the remaking of our world and the creation of Adam and Eve?

Having read and believed that God knew from before the Creation who would come to Christ, it seems to me that he knows exactly who (therefore how many) of the Gentiles belong to Jesus. Therefore, the full number has less to do with a full complement (as with the ship’s crew metaphor) and much more to do with God waiting until every one who is known to be part of the Church (and is named and counted among the saved) is aboard.

I am responding to your answer to the question on the Gulf oil spill. You said the oil spill is very small. But I have heard they can’t stop it and it will go up the east coast and out into the Atlantic and across and around Europe and ruin the entire world’s oceans within 18 mos. They also have said that in addition to the oil coming up it brings with it deadly gases and they think they’ll have to evacuate everyone. This is a huge astronomical problem is it not? I hope I didn’t misunderstand you. But please explain.

When Jesus returns to reign during the millennium, He will be in His glorified body. Since He will be glorified and holy, how is it possible for humans in the millennium to look at Him? I ask because I didn’t think it was possible for humans with a sin nature to survive around that kind of holiness.

Love all your newest articles on the PRE-Gog/Magog war. I have been wondering about that possibility for some time as I try to study prophesy and understand it. I am wondering though, where does it say or indicate the timing for the beginning of rebuilding the temple? I thought it could actually be at any time, even before the anti-Christ is revealed, of course knowing how he defiles it 3 1/2 years into the 7 year accord, claiming to be God. What are the specific Bible references that you use for the timing of the rebuilding of the temple.

Thank you so much for your brilliant web site, it is such a help. Can you help with this question please? Are there any true apostles or prophets today? I know there are many that call themselves apostles and prophets, but are false.

I have read many times in your articles that you believe the parables in Matthew 24 primarily have to do with tribulation believers, not the Church. You mention that the verse that reads “no one knows the day or the hour…” has to do also with the Second Coming and not the Rapture. But the Bible tells us that the Lord will return exactly 1260 days from the Abomination of Desolation, so how could no man know the day? Thank you so much for your site! I have learned so much from it and will appreciate your clarification on this issue.

I believe somewhere I heard that the early prophets actually did “talk” with God and that is how they wrote the exact wording of what God said and it’s not their paraphrasing but God’s Wording and that this all stopped with the last prophet Malachi to give way for the Christ to appear. So instead of God giving instructions only through prophets’ dreams, He sent His Son – is this correct? In other words instead of the prophets’ dreams, they actually did speak with God.