Chapter 1: Introduction to Biblical Prophecy
1. Credit goes to my common conference associate Norman Geisler for this memorable phraseology.
2. Thomas Constable, “Notes on 2 Timothy.” Available online at www.soniclight.com/constable/notes/pdf/2timothy.pdf.
3. Cited in Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah (San Antonio: Ariel Ministries, 2003), n.p.
4. Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah.
5. Genesis 12:1-3; 15:18-21; 35:10-12; see also Isaiah 60:18,21; Jeremiah 23:6; 24:5-6; 30:18; 31:31-34; 32:37-40; 33:6-9; Ezekiel 28:25-26; 34:11-12; 36:24-26; 37; 39:28; Hosea 3:4-5; Joel 2:18-29; Amos 9:14-15; Micah 2:12; 4:6-7; Zephaniah 3:19-20; Zechariah 8:7-8; 13:8-9.
Chapter 2: Prior to the Tribulation
1. Thomas Ice, “Consistent Biblical Futurism (Part 4),” Bible Prophecy Blog, January 21, 2011. www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2011/01/consistent-biblical-futurism-part-4.html.
2. Joel Rosenberg, Epicenter (Carol Stream: Tyndale House, 2006), p. 27.
3. Some of this information about the gradual return of Jews to their homeland is based on James Combs, “Israel in Two Centuries,” in Prophecy Study Bible, ed. Tim LaHaye (Chattanooga: AMG Publishers, 2001), p. 970.
4. Stephen Leeb, The Coming Economic Collapse (New York: Warner, 2006), p. 30.
Chapter 3: The Rapture
1. Renald Showers, Maranatha: Our Lord Come! (Bellmawr: Friends of Israel, 1995), p. 214.
2. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah (San Antonio: Ariel Ministries, 2003), n.p.
3. Cited in Showers, Maranatha: Our Lord Come!, p. 197.
4. Showers, Maranatha: Our Lord Come!, p. 128. See also Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah.
Chapter 4: The Results of the Rapture
1. John F. Walvoord, “Revelation,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary, New Testament Edition, ed. John Walvoord and Roy Zuck (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 1983), n.p.
2. Paul Feinberg, “2 Thessalonians 2 and the Rapture,” in When the Trumpet Sounds, ed. Thomas Ice and Timothy Demy (Eugene: Harvest House, 1995), p. 307.
3. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah (San Antonio: Ariel Ministries, 2003), n.p.
4. Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah.
5. Feinberg, “2 Thessalonians 2 and the Rapture,” p. 307.
6. Feinberg, “2 Thessalonians 2 and the Rapture,” p. 307.
7. Thomas Constable, “2 Thessalonians,” in The Popular Bible Prophecy Commentary, ed. Tim LaHaye and Ed Hindson (Eugene: Harvest House, 2006), p. 455.
8. Constable, “2 Thessalonians,” p. 455.
9. Mal Couch, “Restrainer,” in The Popular Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy, ed. Tim LaHaye and Ed Hindson (Eugene: Harvest House, 2004), p. 325.
10. Mark Hitchcock, Is the Antichrist Alive Today? (Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2002), p. 83.
11. Couch, “Restrainer,” p. 325.
12. Cited in David Jeremiah, The Coming Economic Armageddon (New York: Faith Words, 2010), p. 114.
13. Feinberg, “2 Thessalonians 2 and the Rapture,” p. 308.
14. William MacDonald and Arthur L. Farstad, Believer’s Bible Commentary (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1995), n.p.
15. J. Oswald Sanders, Heaven: Better by Far (Grand Rapids: Discovery House, 1993), p. 91.
16. Jon Courson, Jon Courson’s Application Commentary (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2003), p. 1118.
17. Albert Barnes, Notes on the New Testament, vol. 8, 2 Corinthians (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996), p. 105.
18. Courson, Jon Courson’s Application Commentary, p. 1118.
19. Paul Powell, When the Hurt Won’t Go Away (Wheaton: Victor, 1986), p. 119.
Chapter 5: The Church with Christ in Heaven
1. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah (San Antonio: Ariel Ministries, 2003), n.p.
2. Thomas Constable, “Notes on Revelation.” Available online at www.soniclight.com/constable/notes/pdf/revelation.pdf.
3. John MacArthur, The MacArthur Study Bible (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006), n.p.
Chapter 6: The Invasion of Israel
1. Joel Rosenberg, Epicenter (Carol Stream: Tyndale House, 2006), pp. 68-69.
2. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah (San Antonio: Ariel Ministries, 2003), n.p.
3. Thomas Ice, “Ezekiel 38 and 39,” part 1. Available online at www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2011/01/ezekiel-38-39-part-1.html.
4. Ice, “Ezekiel 38 and 39,” part 1.
5. John F. Walvoord, “Revelation,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary, New Testament Edition, ed. John Walvoord and Roy Zuck (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 1983), n.p.
6. Joel Rosenberg, Epicenter (Carol Stream: Tyndale House, 2006), pp. 163-64.
7. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah.
Chapter 7: The Beginning of the Tribulation: The Emergence of the Antichrist
1. Renald Showers, Maranatha: Our Lord Come! (Bellmawr: Friends of Israel, 1995), p. 21.
2. See John 14:1-3; Romans 8:19; 1 Corinthians 1:7-8; 15:51-53; 16:22; Philippians 3:20-21; Colossians 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 4:13-18; 2 Thessalonians 2:1,3; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 1:7,13; 5:4; 1 John 2:28–3:2; Revelation 2:25; 3:10.
3. Some prophecy scholars associate the ten kings with the world government. See Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah (San Antonio: Ariel Ministries, 2003), n.p.
Chapter 8: The Beginning of the Tribulation: The Temple and Signs of the End
1. John F. Walvoord, “Revelation,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary, New Testament Edition, ed. John Walvoord and Roy Zuck (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 1983), n.p.
Chapter 9: The First Half of the Tribulation: The Lamb and His Witnesses
1. John F. Walvoord, “Revelation,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary, New Testament Edition, ed. John Walvoord and Roy Zuck (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 1983), n.p.
2. See Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah (San Antonio: Ariel Ministries, 2003), n.p.
Chapter 10: The First Half of the Tribulation: Judgments, Martyrdom, and Apostasy
1. J.I. Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1983), p. 126.
2. Thomas Constable, “Notes on Revelation.” Available online at www.soniclight.com/constable/notes/pdf/revelation.pdf.
Chapter 11: The Midpoint of the Tribulation
1. John F. Walvoord, “Revelation,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary, New Testament Edition, ed. John Walvoord and Roy Zuck (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 1983), n.p.
2. William MacDonald and Arthur L. Farstad, Believer’s Bible Commentary (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1995), n.p.
3. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah (San Antonio: Ariel Ministries, 2003), n.p.
4. Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah.
5. Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah.
6. Walvoord, “Revelation.”
7. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah.
8. Thomas Constable, “Notes on Revelation.” Available online at www.soniclight.com/constable/notes/pdf/revelation.pdf.
9. Thomas Constable, “Notes on Revelation.”
10. William MacDonald and Arthur L. Farstad, The Believer’s Bible Commentary.
11. Walvoord, “Revelation.”
12. Walvoord, “Revelation.”
13. William MacDonald and Arthur L. Farstad, The Believer’s Bible Commentary.
14. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah.
Chapter 12: The Second Half of the Tribulation
1. Renald Showers, Maranatha: Our Lord Come! (Bellmawr: Friends of Israel, 1995), p. 43.
2. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, book 5, chapter 30.4.
3. Cited in Renald Showers, Maranatha: Our Lord Come!, p. 50.
4. Showers, Maranatha, p. 50.
5. Thomas Ice and Timothy Demy, The Coming Cashless Society (Eugene: Harvest House, 1996), pp. 125-26, 80.
6. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah (San Antonio: Ariel Ministries, 2003), n.p.
7. Mark Hitchcock, Cashless: Bible Prophecy, Economic Chaos, and the Future Financial Order (Eugene: Harvest House, 2010), pp. 163-64.
8. Cited in Thomas Ice and Timothy Demy, Fast Facts on Bible Prophecy from A to Z (Eugene: Harvest House, 2004), p. 129.
9. John MacArthur, The MacArthur Study Bible (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006). See the note on Revelation 13:16.
10. John F. Walvoord, The Prophecy Knowledge Handbook (Wheaton: Victor Books, 1990), n.p.
11. Cited in Ice and Demy, The Coming Cashless Society, p. 132.
12. William MacDonald and Arthur L. Farstad, Believer’s Bible Commentary (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1995), n.p.
Chapter 13: The End of the Tribulation
1. John F. Walvoord, “Revelation,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary, New Testament Edition, ed. John Walvoord and Roy Zuck (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 1983), n.p.
2. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, The Footsteps of the Messiah (San Antonio: Ariel Ministries, 2003), n.p.
Chapter 14: After the Tribulation, Before the Millennial Kingdom
1. Renald Showers, Maranatha: Our Lord Come! (Bellmawr: Friends of Israel, 1995), pp. 57-58.
2. Stanley Toussaint, Behold the King: A Study of Matthew (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2005), p. 291.
3. Merrill F. Unger, Beyond the Crystal Ball (Chicago: Moody, 1978), pp. 134-35.
4. J. Dwight Pentecost, The Words and Works of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978), p. 410. See also J. Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978), p. 418.
5. “Matthew,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary, New Testament Edition, ed. John Walvoord and Roy Zuck (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 1983), n.p.
Chapter 15: During the Millennial Kingdom
1. John F. Walvoord, Major Bible Prophecies (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1991), p. 390.
2. John F. Walvoord, The Millennial Kingdom (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1981), p. 310.
3. Jerry Hullinger, “The Problem of Animal Sacrifices in Ezekiel 40–48,” Bibliotheca Sacra 152, July–September 1995, p. 280.
4. Hullinger, “The Problem of Animal Sacrifices in Ezekiel 40–48,” p. 289.
5. Walvoord, The Millennial Kingdom, p. 307.
Chapter 17: The Eternal State
1. Charles F. Pfeiffer and Everett F. Harrison, eds., The Wycliffe Bible Commentary (Chicago: Moody, 1974), p. 1257.
2. F.W. Thomas, Masters of Deception (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1983), p. 21.
3. Albert Barnes, “Revelation,” in Notes on the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996), p. 454.
4. John MacArthur, The Glory of Heaven (Wheaton: Crossway, 1996), p. 90.
5. Cited in J. Oswald Sanders, Heaven: Better by Far (Grand Rapids: Discovery House, 1993), p. 131.
6. Sanders, Heaven, p. 134.
7. Cited in Randy Alcorn, Heaven (Wheaton: Tyndale, 2004), p. 125.
8. John F. Walvoord, “Revelation,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary, New Testament Edition, ed. John Walvoord and Roy Zuck (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 1983), n.p.
9. Millard Erickson, Christian Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987), p. 1229.
10. George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (New Haven: Yale University, 2003), p. 98.
11. Cited in John Walvoord, The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Chicago: Moody, 1971), p. 332.
12. Albert Barnes, “Revelation,” p. 453.
13. Cited in Tim LaHaye, Revelation: Illustrated and Made Plain (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975), p. 315.
14. Bruce Shelley, Theology for Ordinary People (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1994), p. 212.
15. Cited in “Revelation,” Wycliffe Bible Commentary (Chicago: Moody, 1960), p. 1524.