Email Questions and Ted’s Responses

Numerous people have emailed me with questions pertaining to topics about which I have written in my Bible Commentaries.  Click on a question below to see my response to it.

Rapture

• Is the Pre-tribulation view of the Rapture the correct view?

• How can believers go into the final seven years, if God has not appointed them to wrath?

• How can the Rapture be anything but Pre-trib, if it comes as a thief in the night?

• Do you believe that the Rapture is near? When do you think the tribulation will begin?

• If the "day and the hour" of Jesus' coming are unknown, how can we know when it will happen?

• Why are the "last trumpet" and the "seventh trumpet" not the same trumpet?

• Why do you believe that the Rapture will take place a year before the end of the 70th Week?

• Does the Rapture view that people accept affect the way they live or have a bearing on their salvation?

• What if there is no Rapture and everybody has to go through the tribulation?

• Is it possible that there will be multiple Rapture events?

• Are the "mansions" Jesus is preparing for us actual buildings in which we will dwell while in heaven?

Revelation

• Are the Sixth Seal events at the very end of the 70th Week?

• Doesn't God's wrath occur throughout the entire 70th Week period?

• Are the 1,260 days mentioned in Revelation a reference to the first half or to the second half of the 70th Week?

• When does the period known as the "Day of the Lord" occur?

• Why do you believe that there will be a literal millennial period, of 1,000 years, after Jesus returns?

• Why are Dan and Ephraim not listed in the 144,000 of Revelation 7:4-8?

• Who is the "woman" described in Revelation 12:1-6?

European Neighbourhood Policy
and Daniel 9:27

• Could the European Neighbourhood Policy be the prophesied 70th Week Covenant?

• How can the European Neighbourhood Policy be the Daniel 9:27 covenant, if the latter is a "peace treaty"?

• Is the European Neighbourhood Policy a confirmation of a previous covenant?

• If the European Neighbourhood Policy is the Daniel 9:27 covenant, is there anything significant on the Jewish calendar, 3½ years later, that could be a time when sacrifices and offerings could be made to cease in the Jewish temple?

• How can the ENP be the prophesied covenant if the 70th Week will last 2,520 days, yet seven solar years is over a month longer than that?

End-Times

• Is it possible that the 70th Week already has begun?

• Does Islam hold the belief that Jesus will return again?

• When will God's covenant with Abraham be fulfilled, and how do we know that it is Israel who will receive the promised land?

• What could cause the apostasy of 2 Thessalonians 2:3?

• Will the Antichrist be Jewish? Are there any Bible references showing his nationality?

• Who is the so-called "restrainer" who is holding back the "man of lawlessnes" and who will be "taken out of the way"?

• How do you know that the "abomination that causes desolation," to which Jesus referred in Matthew 24:15, will pertain to the third temple?

• How can Moses be one of the two witnesses if he died long ago?

• How does Jesus' use of "generation" in Matthew 24:34 fit into end-time prophecy?

Final Battles
Winepress of Gog/Magog vs. Battle of Armageddon

• When does the Gog/Magog battle, described in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39, occur?

• When do the events of Ezekiel chapters 35-39 take place?

• Is Ezekiel 39:17-29 descriptive of what happens during and after the battle of Armageddon?

• What are the 30-day and 45-day periods following the end of the 70th Week?

Creation

• Didn't death in this world and decay in the universe begin when Eve and Adam sinned?

• How will the appearance of the earth during the Millennium and its appearance after the Millennium be different?

• If the days of creation were 24 hours long, how is it possible that so many events took place on the sixth creation day?

Good Thursday
and Other Fulfillments by Jesus

• What if Jesus rose on Saturday night rather than on Sunday, in which case He would have been crucified on Wednesday rather than on Thursday or Friday?

• Wasn't Jesus in His tomb three full days and three full nights?

• How is it that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Jewish Spring and Fall feasts and holy days?

• Why did Jesus celebrate the Passover seder one night early?

• Should the weekly Sabbath observance be for 24 hours or only during daylight hours?

Was Jesus God?

• If Jesus was God, why did He say the Father was greater than He and knew things He didn't?

• Why do you use the NIV, rather than the KJV, for the Bible references in all of your commentaries? Isn't the NIV negligent in showing whom Jesus really was?

Who Is God?

• How can God be One and Three at the same time?

• Why did God create all of this the way He did it?

• What was the main point of Jesus' suffering and sacrifice? What was in it for God?

• Who is responsible for evil? Does God know what He is going to do before He does it?

• Which do you feel is true: God's predestination or our free will?

• Is it possible that all people ultimately could be reconciled back to God?

• Why did God ask Satan if he had considered His servant, Job? And did Satan choose to obey God in not killing Job?