Are Only 144,000 Going to Heaven?
March 28th, 2009 | Eschatology | 15 Comments
Eschatology
At our potluck for our church group last
night we had some interesting discussions
with our teenagers about money and
responsibility.
Are Only 144,000 Going to Heaven?, was a
question asked that was as much out of place
in that conversation as it is in this paragraph.
After we finished some good food and a lively
discussion, we had a ten minute devotional.
Everything went well, but at the end of the
discussion, one of the members, a really nice
lady said she was called “Miss Goody-Two-Shoes” by a coworker.
Her coworker told her to chill and stop being such a good person
because only 144,000 people were going to heaven. She said, her minister, (a ...
Preterism is False, Is it True or False?
March 23rd, 2009 | Preterism | 4 Comments
A few professors associated with Liberty
University are beginning to panic over
Preterism.
Preterism is False, Is it True or False?, is a
reply to objections raised by panicking
Dispensationalists. Preterism is a Latin
term which means past.
From the perspective of Bible prophecy,
it refers to all end times events as having
been fulfilled in the past. It is the opposite
of futurism, which holds those events to be yet to come in the future.
Dr. Edward Hinson, Assistant to the Chancellor at Liberty University
wrote an article entitled, The New Last Days Scoffers, as an attempted refutation of Preterism. The article appeared in the May 2005 issue of Jerry Falwell’s ...
Are We Eliminating the Real Need for Eschatology?
March 23rd, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment
In a list of objections raised by Dr. Edward
Hinsons The New Last Days’ Scoffers Articles,
he charges that Preteriism Is False, and asks
“Are We Eliminating the Real Need for Eschatology?
This is a vaild question. It causes us to focus
on what eschatology is and where to place it?
Dispensationalists and all futurists place eschatology
at the end of the Christian age. Preterism vigorously
challenges that assumption. Preterism view the Christian age as an age without end, therefore, it can have no eschatology. This, futurists believe is the great heresy of Preterism.
Eschatology
Eschatology is the study of last or final things, from “echatos” meaning last, and logos, ...
Is the Millennium Past, Present or Future?
March 23rd, 2009 | Millennium | 1 Comment
In continuing our reply to Preterism Is False,
and Dr. Edward Hinson of Liberty University’s
The New Last Day's Scoffers, we address
the millennium.
Is the Millennium Past, Present or Future?
This means we are responding to both
Amillennialism and Dispensationalism as
tenants of futurism.
Dr. Hinson, erroneously assumed that Preterism holds to a present millennium. We deny that assertion.
Rather, it is the Amillennial view which holds that the millennium is currently present, is figurative in that it includes the entire period beginning with Christ’s enthronement at the right hand of the Father already now exceeding a literal 1,000 years (Acts 2:29–33) and continues until his alleged future ...
Romans 11 and Israel, Has God Cast Away His People...
March 23rd, 2009 | Eschatology | 4 Comments
We are responding to Dr. Edward Hinson’s
attack on Preterism. Among questions
entertained already, he submits yet another
one which he believes refutes Preterism.
Paul asks in “Romans 11, Has God Cast Away His People, Israel?” Dr. Hinson teaches Preterism implies such. We deny the charge.
He asks, “If God is finished with ethnic Israel, why did Paul ask: “Has God cast away his people?” “And why did he respond so emphatically, “ God forbid!” (Rom. 11:1)
First we must note that this text is written prior to A.D. 70. At that time God had not cast off the Old Covenant nation. However, today, since that ...