Hi fellow pre-tribbers!
I thought I would share a link to a fantastic series by a pastor in Las Vegas who is a great researcher and an engaging speaker.
His name is Pastor Billy Crone.
I am sharing it because I believe that more people need to be aware of how good his teachings are.
He holds to a pre trib rapture position and is the pastor of Sunrise Baptist Church.
It is my hope that in watching these videos you will be spurred on to share the gospel and maybe even pass some of these videos on to the people in your life.Either way, may you be greatly blessed as you watch these videos!
( I especially recommend part two of the series entitled ," the rise of technology and the AI invasion."
Get A Life Media Ministries - Watch Video - The Final Countdown
Depending upon what level a person is on learning about the end times. The videos could prove helpful. Thus, I would not say not to watch the videos.
I have listened to him some in the past. I watched part of one of the videos at the link.
Get A Life Media Ministries - Watch Video - The Final Countdown
A person could develop some bad habits, eschatology wise, by being mesmerized by his speaking skills, though. Most people are not going to sort out some of the errors he makes - because it is hard to recognize the error when it is being made - without being somewhat of an expert themselves.
For me, personally, it is hard to listen to Pastor Crone to the video's end, because of certain errors he makes, extending no doubt by what he has heard himself from prior and contemporary bible commentators, and bible school teachers, which those things just continue.
1. Error. In the video, he constantly calls the 70th week - the 7 years "tribulation". That is a misleading error.
For most of the first half of the 70th week of Daniel 9:27, Israel and the world will think it has entered the messianic age of peace and safety. It will not be a special time of tribulation. Which is why they will be saying "peace and safety" in 1Thessalonians5 before being caught off-guard when the Day of the Lord begins.
Pastor Crone, instead, should be saying 70th week, or final 7 years.
The great tribulation is in the 70th week, beginning when the abomination of desolation is setup to be worshiped. And it would be right to call that portion of the 70th week that - "the great tribulation".
Which, also, Pastor Crone also makes the mistake of saying that the abomination of desolation is when the Antichrist goes into the temple and claims to be God. Which is wrong.
That particular act of going into the temple and claiming to be God is the "
transgression of desolation" from Daniel 8:12-13. It is an act. A transgression.
Differently, the "abomination of desolation" is a thing that will be made and placed in the temple. The image, a statue, of the beast in Revelation 13.
2. Another big error. He refers to the covenant of Daniel 9:27, as a treaty, inferring a peace treaty, confirmed by the Antichrist. That interpretation has been popularized for decades. And keeps getting repeated. The rationale, part of it, for saying a peace treaty is that the person will destroy many by peace, in Daniel 8:25.
What the confirmation of the covenant for 7 years will be - is confirmation of the Mt. Sinai covenant by the Antichrist. Confirming the Mt. Sinai covenant goes back to Moses, when he made it a requirement for all future leaders of Israel - on a 7 year cycle. It's in Deuteronomy 31:9-13.
It will be a big speech by the Antichrist from the temple mount that God gave the land of Israel to the children of Israel as theirs forever.
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The biggest error all the popular commentators make?
Not separating being the Antichrist - as being the (unapproved by God) King of Israel. From being the little horn and later as the beast - as being the King of the Roman Empire of the End times.
