WHAT IF IT ALREADY HAPPENED?What if much of what Christians have been taught to expect in the future was actually connected to events that took place nearly 2,000 years ago?For generations, Christians have been taught to watch for the Great Tribulation, Antichrist, the rapture, judgment, wars, cosmic signs, and the end of the world.But what if we have misunderstood the timing-and sometimes even the meaning-of the biblical texts?In What If It Already Happened?, David & Kristi Portillo take readers back to the world of Jesus and His first disciples. Rather than beginning with modern prophecy charts or current events, they examine the original audience, historical setting, Greek and Hebrew language, Jerusalem, the Temple, and the dramatic events surrounding the Jewish-Roman War and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.This book explores challenging questions:Did Jesus' words about "this generation" actually refer to His own generation?Was the Great Tribulation connected to Jerusalem's destruction?What did Jesus mean by the "end of the age"?What does Daniel's vision of the Son of Man coming with the clouds actually describe?Who-or what-was Antichrist?What did the apostles mean when they said they were living in the "last days"?What does the Bible actually teach about Gehenna, Hades, judgment, the lake of fire, resurrection, and restoration?And if many end-times passages had a first-century fulfillment, what remains future?David and Kristi do not ask readers to exchange one rigid prophetic system for another. They invite readers to investigate the evidence, examine Scripture in context, and distinguish historical facts from theological interpretation.This is ultimately more than a book about prophecy.It is a book about moving from fear to understanding, from escape to participation, and from religious anxiety to identity and sonship.Perhaps the most important question is no longer:When will the Kingdom come?Perhaps we should be asking:What if the Kingdom is already here-and we were meant to be living in it?
