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Open Questions

What is addressed, and what remains open.

Items marked with a checkmark have been addressed in your taught corpus. The rest remain open for development.

Question 01

Addressed · Section 13

When exactly within the final 3½ years is the church gathered?

Addressed in Section 13 (The Season, Not the Day). We are not to know the day or hour, but we are meant to read the season through the signs we’re warned to watch. The gathering points to the Feast of Trumpets — the fall feast of the gathering, whose new-moon timing is the very idiom behind “no one knows the day or hour.”

Question 02

Open

How layered is Matthew 24?

Some statements clearly fit AD 70 (vv. 16-20); others clearly future (vv. 29-31). Where exactly is the seam?

Question 03

Open

What is the abomination of desolation?

Past (Antiochus 167 BC), historical (AD 70), future (rebuilt temple), or layered fulfillment?

Question 04

Addressed · Rev 11:1-5 + Sec 02

Will there be a rebuilt temple?

Answered by the four-pillar case in Section 02: YES — a literal future third temple. (1) Revelation was written ~95-96 AD per Irenaeus, after Herod’s Temple was destroyed. (2) The text rules out the church-as-temple reading. (3) The biblical pattern of dual fulfillment (Isa. 7:14, Joel 2, Dan. 9, Mal. 4, Matt. 24) means AD 70 was the near fulfillment, not the final. (4) The Temple Institute has prepared every element to resume service. The literal Third Temple is the natural reading.

Question 05

Open

Relationship between the church and ethnic Israel in the millennium?

If the Romans 11 ingathering happens during the tribulation, what role does believing Israel play in the 1,000-year reign?

Question 06

Addressed · Rev 20:3-6 + Sec 10

Are both resurrections in Revelation 20:4-5 bodily?

Answered in your teaching on Rev 20:3-6 and developed in Section 10: YES — both are bodily, but “first” and “second” are categories, not a chronological count. Three converging arguments: (a) John 5:28-29 — Jesus names two kinds of resurrection (life vs. judgment); (b) Christ as firstborn / firstfruits — Col. 1:18, Rom. 8:29, Rev. 1:5, 1 Cor. 15:20-23 positively assert Christ is first in resurrection; (c) the entire OT pattern of “firstborn” as categorical position, not biological priority (Isaac over Ishmael, Jacob over Esau, Joseph over Reuben, Ephraim over Manasseh). All flow from the deeper principle in Section 09: standing is granted by God, not earned by performance.

Question 07

Open

How does the 6,000-year count work with potential gaps in Genesis genealogies?

Doesn’t break the framework — the pattern holds regardless of exact present date — but affects expectations about imminence.

Question 08

Open

The 144,000 in Revelation 7 and 14 — literal ethnic Israel, symbolic, or both?

Affects how Israel’s role in the final years interacts with the church’s gathering.

Question 09

Addressed · Rev 19:6-10

Where does the marriage supper of the Lamb fit?

Addressed in your teaching on Rev 19:6-10. The marriage supper precedes the visible return — the church is already gathered to Christ before he comes in judgment with the armies of heaven.

Question 10

Open

What is the nature of the millennial reign?

Christ physically present on earth? From Jerusalem? Resurrected saints reigning alongside mortal survivors who repopulate?

Question 11

Partly addressed

Who are the nations Satan deceives at the end of the millennium?

Rev. 20:8 implies mortals exist alongside resurrected saints during the 1,000 years — needs careful working out. Partial address in Rev 20:7-10 teaching (“why is Satan released?”) but the question of who the nations are still open.

Question 12

Open

How do OT kingdom prophecies map onto the millennium vs. the eternal state?

Some elements (no more death) fit eternity; others (long lifespans, nations bringing tribute) fit a millennial intermediate state. (Isa. 2, 11, 65; Ezek. 40-48; Zech. 14)