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Clear searchResponding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…dispensationalism existed before Darby: distinctions among biblical economies, an earthly millennial kingdom, Israel's future restoration, and forms of a translation of saints separated from final judgement. Earlier writers did not assemble those elements into Darby's complete sc…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
The King, Zion and the Coming Kingdom: Reading Isaiah 32–35 Across the Prophetic Horizon The near was real. The far is still coming. The historical horizon and the question of fulfilment “Was this fulfilled, or is it sti…
Read article →Hippolytus · Exposition, prophecy, and polemic · early third century
…a compelling early discussion of Daniel, the Antichrist, Christ's return, and the future kingdom. His Refutation of All Heresies also records and challenges many competing teachings. Together the writings offer a high view of Scripture, vigorous rebuttal, a clear premillennial w…
View recommendation →Irenaeus of Lyons · Early Christian theology and polemic · c. 180–190
…of the Old and New Testaments. He is also an important early witness to a future earthly kingdom: his premillennial passages show that this expectation cannot simply be dismissed as a recent invention. Read Irenaeus as an early witness, not as an authority on every matter. His c…
View recommendation →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
What Restrains the Lawless One? Rome, Israel, and a Working Theory While researching The Kingdom Still to Come, my premillennial sequel to my rapture book, I have been revisiting Paul’s account of the restrainer in 2 Thessalonians 2. Something holds back the revelation of the fi…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…s. The Lord's Prayer directs their hope towards earth without making earth their god: Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10) The Christian hope is not that the earth will remain indefinitely outside God's order while redeemed souls escape…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…Nicene period also preserves an emphatically futurist and, in several major witnesses, premillennial hope. The final chapter of the Didache tells believers to watch for the last days. It anticipates deception, the appearance of the world-deceiver, fiery trial, the heavenly sign,…
Read article →Michael J. Vlach · Biblical theology · 2023
…a substantial theological study rather than a short introduction. Vlach writes from a premillennial, dispensational framework, so readers who approach prophecy differently will meet conclusions they may wish to test carefully. Read it with the relevant biblical passages open and…
View recommendation →E. W. Bullinger · Sermons · 1892
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View recommendation →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…sed. Early Christians commonly expected resurrection, judgement, Antichrist, and Christ's kingdom, but they arranged details differently. A persecuted Church naturally read itself into Antichrist's persecution. Irenaeus and Victorinus can sound like forms of midtribulational deli…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…ar Seed through whom Abrahamic blessing reaches the nations. He is the Son of David whose kingdom endures for ever. He is the mediator whose blood establishes the new covenant. Yet a representative does not normally fulfil a promise by eliminating its beneficiaries. David's thron…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…e authority of Scripture, heavenly hope, doctrinal precision, non-sacramental worship, premillennialism, or distrust of corrupt institutions. If all these things are Gnostic, then parts of the New Testament begin to look suspicious. A label that explains everything explains nothi…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…mes the true Israel over against the Jewish nation. Justin also expected a future earthly kingdom centred in Jerusalem. That fact is important because it shows that millennial belief did not automatically preserve a future for national Israel. His eschatology was geographically J…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…compression. Passages are collapsed into a single event when distinction would support premillennialism, while their historical setting is expanded or combined when compression is needed to reach AD 70. What is the position being answered? Hanegraaff begins by presenting pretribu…
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