November 29, 2018, marks the 71st anniversary of Resolution 181, the UN General Assembly Resolution that laid out plans for the partitioning of Palestine, then under British occupation rule, into two independent states. This historic resolution is largely considered to be the first domino in the decades of resulting clashes between the eventual Israeli state
Would Hitler Have Taken Over the World?
In the effort of advocating for non-intervention, one is naturally confronted with many questions and concerns regarding how this philosophy would work throughout history. For Americans, that typically looks like objections to the idea of non-involvement in a number of notable world conflicts, most commonly that of World War II. It doesn’t take long in
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Do the Biblical Genealogies Contain Gaps?
Imagine rifling through a musty attic and stumbling across a box of old pictures and mementos. Perhaps that box contains family records that show the lineage of your ancestors. Or maybe it contains stories of heroism or great courage and perseverance. We may not have pictures or keepsakes like this from the early Biblical patriarchs, but
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Revelation 20 and the Millennial Kingdom: How Can We Know Which View Is Right? (Part 3)
In previous installations of this series, we introduced the concepts of the major millennial views and millennialism as a whole; that of the nature of a thousand year reign of Christ and His saints laid out primarily in Revelation 20. In Part 1, we laid out the “progressive parallel” model of understanding the book of Revelation
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Revelation 20 and the Millennial Kingdom: A “Thousand Years” of Giving Satan Too Much Credit (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this series on Revelation 20 and the Millennial Kingdom, we discussed a solid foundation of terms and considerations when attempting to understand the doctrine of the Millennial Reign of Christ in eschatology and how we should understand the book of Revelation itself. We also introduced the text itself and began to dive into