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Is Paul Teaching An Imminent Eschatology in 1 Cor. 15:51? :: By Eli Kittim
Some biblical commentators have claimed that Paul’s language in 1 Corinthians 15:51 is referencing an imminent eschatology. Imminent eschatology is a belief that the final events of human history already occurred in the first century CE. By contrast, future eschatology is the belief that the end of the world comprises future events that have not…
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Was 70 CE the Worst Period Ever in the History of the Earth? :: By Eli Kittim
In talking about the great ordeal (aka “the great tribulation”), Mt. 24.21 says that there will be the greatest suffering ever in the history of the world before Jesus comes. 70 CE was not, by any stretch of the imagination, the worst period ever in the history of the earth. We have ample evidence of…