No Gaps, Rebuilt Temple, or Antichrist

February 13, 2026·24 min·2 clips

Kirk Cameron says studying church history changed his end-time view, sparking online debate about gaps and tribulation.

Kirk Cameron is the occasion. Gary DeMar starts with Cameron's changed end times view, then moves straight to the passages he thinks have been handled too loosely. The approach is textual. He asks what the New Testament actually says about a future seven year tribulation, then spends just as much time on what it never says. Revelation gets close attention. Chapters 4 through 19 are often treated as the tribulation section, but DeMar points out that the phrase seven years is not there. Antichrist is not there either. For him, that absence is not a small detail, because the system leans on words and timelines the passage does not plainly give. The 70 weeks do the heavy lifting. DeMar argues that the final week is not a detached future period. It is the week centered on Jesus and the gospel's movement to Israel. The first half is Christ's ministry. The next half, in his reading, is the gospel still being addressed to the Jews before the mission moves outward. Stephen may mark the turn. DeMar suggests Stephen's indictment of that generation and Paul's later turn toward the Gentiles may signal the close of the seventy weeks. He does not want another gap inserted there. Even preterist attempts to push the last half week toward AD 70, he says, end up creating the same problem they criticize. Numbered units should stay consecutive unless the text gives a reason to break them. His dry refrain is simple enough: Scripture does not usually hide silent gaps inside numbered sequences, so readers need to prove the gap before building a doctrine on it. The tone stays controlled. This is less a rant than a steady push to keep the text open and let missing words stay missing. The target is imported certainty. If seven years and Antichrist are not in the claimed places, DeMar wants listeners to stop supplying them and read the passage as written.

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A text-first rebuttal of gap-heavy end-times teaching.

Gary DeMar spends the hour pressing a familiar end-times case against the Antichrist, a seven-year tribulation, and the habit of forcing a gap into Daniel 9.

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