The Earth and the Millennium
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Jeremy asked an excellent question on the prior post and I don’t want to reproduce it here (go read it already!) but it was a good question and I’ll try to touch on it in this post. Right off the bat I have to admit a few things. First, I don’t think there is a [...]
The Saints and the Millennium
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009“Use the clear texts interpret the difficult ones.” I don’t remember where I learned that but I do remember learning it and using it. It stuck with me for a long time. Then I took a class with Grant Osborne and he made a great point about this approach. He said, in effect, that what [...]
Satan and the Millennium
Monday, August 17th, 2009Thanks to Nathan‘s excellent comments on my post on Amillennial problems, I’m going to try to flesh out a few of my points. Not so much by showing where I think non-millennial positions are wrong, but more to positively state my position better. One place to begin is with Satan. Revelation 20:3 says that John [...]
Problems with Amillennialism
Friday, August 7th, 2009I kind of hate to post this but a list was posted of Sam Storms’ problems with Premillennialism so I thought I should say something. I read Storms’ list of “problems” and am fine with all of them from the context of my understanding of the Millennium. I might respond to his list at some [...]
We Are/Were The Grapes of Wrath
Friday, May 16th, 2008In this month’s Christianity Today, Carolyn Arends has an article whose name immediately caught my attention: “The Grace of Wrath“. It was one of the first things I read in this edition. What a disappointment. How badly she missed the point. So this blog post is going to be me rehearsing a potential letter to [...]
Hey!
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Can you believe it! A bunch of strong Biblical scholars went and stole the title of my blog post and turned it into a book! Kidding aside, this looks like the kind of treatment of the subject that I think is needed. Some good authors were involved and I think an edited volume with multiple [...]
Hell Under Fire?
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007INTRODUCTION The Biblical doctrine of hell is not a popular subject in our postmodern world. The notion of it offends popular sensibilities. Even Christians get a bit uneasy with the subject. And yet, Jesus preached on it often. John, in Revelation didn’t shy away from it. We’ve seen the stereotypes of preachers (typically sweaty Southerners) [...]
Today’s Date
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006It is 6/6/06. The remake of “The Omen” debuts today to some bad reviews. You know, Hollywood’s antichrist is never as frightening as the real one(s). Anyway, I just wanted to announce some things that have NOT happened today: The Rapture has not occurred as pre-tribulational, pre-millennial believers have noticed. Not that they expected it [...]
Scars of Heaven
Thursday, November 17th, 2005I think it may be a vanity for us to believe that in heaven our bodies will be perfect, without defect or blemish. Clearly our souls will be but I’m not so sure about our bodies. I think the idea of a “glorified hairline” or “glorified thighs” meaning a full head of hair and slim, [...]
666?
Wednesday, January 26th, 2005A while ago I began to suspect that the mark of the beast was not an actual physical mark, but rather it represented mental ascent (mark on forehead) and/or physical conformity (mark on hand) to the ways of the beast. I first came across this in some literature from the World Wide Church of God [...]
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