The Story
Why "The Gospel Revolution"?
One man. One verse. A lifetime of assumptions turned upside down.
The Story
A Lifetime of "Not Yet"
For most of my adult life I have heard and was taught that Jesus Christ had not finished his gospel mission and that he still had to come back to finish the job. The unfinished job was judging the earth and mankind. At the end of the judgment would come destruction of the world and sinners.
A vast majority of Christian churches and denominations teach a future return of Jesus Christ. They’ve been doing so for almost 2,000 years.
It took less than 500 years from the last old covenant prophet to Jesus Christ’s arrival. It has now been 2,000 years since Jesus Christ walked the earth — which is four times longer than what the Old Testament prophets said it would take for Jesus Christ to arrive.
“Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.”
Matthew 24:34
Jesus Christ spoke of the last days of the Jewish nation in Matthew 24. Jesus told his audience in verse 34 that there were some standing there who would still be living to see the events he had just described unfold. The Gospel Revolution is built around verse 34 because it believes Jesus at his word.
The Gospel Revolution centers on Matthew 24 and 25, especially 24:34. Why? Because if Jesus was right — and the generation standing before him did not pass away before everything he described took place — then almost everything the modern church teaches about the “end times” must be re-examined from the ground up.
This site exists to do that work, publicly and without apology.
key Texts
Matthew 24:34
“This generation will not pass away until all these things take place.”
Matthew 24:1–35
The Olivet Discourse — Jesus’ prophecy about the destruction of the Temple and the Jewish nation.
Daniel 9:24
“Seventy weeks have been decreed…to make an end of sin…to bring in everlasting righteousness.”
Revelation 1:1
“The things which must shortly take place.” — Written to first-century readers.
Josephus, Jewish War
First-century historian documenting the catastrophic fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD — exactly within Jesus’ generation.
The Irenaeus Problem
When the Only Witness Got It Wrong
The entire edifice of modern Christian eschatology rests on one second-century bishop: Irenaeus. He is the primary source for the claim that John wrote Revelation in the 90s AD during the reign of Domitian (or Trajan, depending on the translation).
But Irenaeus also wrote in Against Heresies (Book II, Chapter 22) that Jesus was in his 50s when he was crucified. Every scholar agrees this is demonstrably wrong. The gospel accounts themselves make this impossible.
If Irenaeus was that wrong about something as fundamental as Jesus’ age at death, how can the dating of Revelation — which determines the entire framework of Christian prophecy — rest securely on his testimony alone?
The answer is: it can’t. And the Gospel Revolution exists to take that question seriously.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must shortly take place.”
Revelation 1:1 (ESV) — emphasis added