Before there was LaHaye, there was Lindsey. Hal Lindsey wrote in 1970 that he believed that the antichrist was alive somewhere in the world. He repeated this belief in 1977 when he wrote that it was his “personal opinion” that “he’s alive somewhere now. But he’s not going to...
One thing that I appreciate about dispensationalists is that they refreshingly admit when they are having trouble making their system work. Rather than bore their readers with exacting exegesis, dispensationalists admit that their system has gaps in it and just throw it out there for their audience. In fact,...
Prophecy teacher Grant Jeffrey has gone home to be with the Lord. Jeffrey suffered a seizure on Friday and was hospitalized. He was in critical condition until he passed on Saturday. Jeffrey was one of the leading teachers on Bible prophecy and an intelligent defense of our Christian faith....
The Made Easy Series™ from NiceneCouncil.com provides substantial studies on significant issues in a succinct and accessible format from an evangelical and Reformed perspective. There has always been doctrinal controversy in the Christian Church, whether over the nature of God in the early Trinitarian counsels, the divinity and humanity...
In my last installment I noted that in Ephesians Paul clearly declares Christ was enthroned as king in the first century. And this proved that his kingdom was not postponed until there could arise CNN to report the sudden disappearance of millions of Christians. Christ’s kingdom and kingly rule...
I was once a dispensationalist. But I got over it. It was not easy, but I did survive the transition. In an evangelism course (Course number: Bi-203) at Tennessee Temple College we learned “The Romans Road to Salvation.” This is a method of gospel witness that presents the gospel...
The second coming balances the theology of God in Scripture. This glorious doctrine not only finalizes Christ’s redemptive victory (pouring eternal glory on his redeeming love) and completes the plan of God (demonstrating divine wisdom in his creational plan). But it also provides us with a full-orbed doctrinal system...
The English word “eschatology” is a fairly late theological term, apparently not put into common use before the nineteenth century. Its first use, however, appears as far back as in Germany in 1644 in the last section of Philip Heinrich Friedlieb’s Dogmatics. That section was titled: Eschatologia seu Florilegium...
I am strong committed to Reformed, evangelical postmillennialism. But it was not always so. Sometimes when we talk with dispensationalists we feel like we are sowing seed on stony ground. Our seed appears to be stuck between a rock and a hard head. Yet we must be encouraged with...
“Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr. has done excellent work in forcing reconsideration of the date when the Book of Revelation was written.” — R. C. Sproul, Ligonier Ministries For centuries scholars have argued over when the book of Revelation was written a few years before or a quarter century after...
