For me, the study of the End Times has always been a topic of fascination and focus. Way back in 1999, when I finally began to submit to the Lordship of Christ, I began to study the Bible for myself, and as I began to study, one thing in particular I sought to understand was the Pre-Trib Rapture of the church (by far, still the most popular view amongst American Evangelicals).
The Pre-Trib view honestly never felt quite right to me, but I figured it was only because I hadn’t yet actually read for myself all the evidence. What I found instead was a jarring inconsistency between the Bible and Pre-Trib doctrine.
So I expanded my study to all of the different eschatological views — Post-Trib, Mid-Trib, Preterism, Amillennialism, etc., and it was then that I discovered Robert Van Kampen’s book, The Sign, outlining the Pre-Wrath rapture view. This proved to have the most satisfying reconciliation of the texts out of everything I was studying, and it has been the view that I’ve held for the last 2½ decades.
In the summer of 2025, I began what was supposed to be a quick analysis, but ended up being an extensive research and writing project covering the timing of the crucifixion (posted here: The Crucifixion Chronology). This project afforded me a newfound appreciation for the precision and exactness of the Bible’s language, prophetic claims, and timing as well as a much deeper understanding of the Hebrew calendar and festivals.
With this new appreciation and knowledge, I thought I might find a better understanding of some of the more challenging pieces of the end times narrative — the trumpets and bowls, the two witnesses, the woman’s flight… Instead, once again, what was supposed to be a quick analysis turned into hundreds of hours of detailed analysis.
What started as an attempt to reconcile a few “trouble spots” has ended up being the formation of whole new ecclesiology and eschatology:
Mutualism: Man is constantly seeking to rebuild the wall of division between Jew and Gentile that Christ tore down. In reality, the nature of the people of God, the Church and Israel, is one of intimate interdependence.
The Olivet Rapture: Prophecy affords a surprisingly coherent view of God’s rescue of all of his people. What started as a refinement to the Pre-Wrath position grew into something at once both innovative and familiar — a narrative where the rescue of the Church and the restoration of Israel are two aspects of a single divine rescue. It’s a cohesive, thoroughly Hebraic narrative built from pieces you already know, arranged in ways you probably haven’t seen.
These are all written as standalone articles (more or less), but they do build upon each other. Given the interconnectedness of all of the myriad of moving pieces, it’s hard to find a good starting place — to find an on-ramp to drink from the firehose. If you’re unsure where to start, I recommend just reading them in the order presented here.
As of right now, I am still working on more articles to flesh out the views I now hold, so if you find this content compelling, check back from time to time to see new content I will be posting.
What happens if you treat the time spans that the Bible gives as literal without special pleading to “prophetic years”? This is a detailed analysis of how all of the spans fit together on the Hebrew calendar with striking precision.