Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline, Is Christianity ...
April 24th, 2009 | Amillennialism | No Comment
Karl Barth, theologian and scholar
fittingly wrote a latter chapter of
Dogmatics in Outline on the
“Coming of Jesus Christ the Judge.”
Karl Barth’s beliefs of Christ’s coming
as judge are futuristic. He however,
recognized the already but not yet
of eschatology.
Problems addressed in the book are the Christians view of time, which
he styles as “real time” versus God’s time.
Dogmatics in Outline Defined Pre-Parousia Time
In Karl Barth’s theology summary of present time, he saw Christ sitting at the right hand of God. This for him represented the present. As such, the event occurred in real time. From this he concluded and rightly so that eternity had broken into ...
Has the Church Misunderstood Israel’s Land P...
April 23rd, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment
Was Walvoord Correct in His Assessment of the Land Promise?
Most of the focus of the church on Israel involves the land promise made in Genesis 12:7. As the late Dr. Walvoord remarked in His book, Prophecy, 14 Essential Keys to Understanding the Final Drama: “The giving of the land to Abraham’s descendants has become a watershed in the study of prophecy, p. 39-40. The tendency has been to deny this is a literal promise. For Walvoord, every mention of the land God promised Abraham literally
included the area from the river of Egypt to the River Euphrates, per Gen. 15:15–18). He contended ...
Does Your Rapture Ready Garment Have Wrinkles?
April 22nd, 2009 | Rapture Ready | 1 Comment
No doubt, all of us have some garments
which tend to wrinkle more than others.
I can think of linen and cotton, which
require some pressing, starch or dry
cleaning to solve the problem.
In the area of eschatology, it may
be wise to ask, “Does Your Rapture
Ready Garment Have Wrinkles?”
We’ve pointed out a couple of the
wrinkles in the Rapture teaching
advanced by “Charting the End Times.
With all the charting in the book, it never addressed the “little while” time parameter of the end! Note the following passages.
John 16:16–19
A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, ...
Seeing Too Much Rapture in the Gospel of John 14:3...
April 20th, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment
In a continuation of our study on the
we ask are some are “Seeing too much
Rapture in the Gospel of John 14:3?
Today, we further investigate whether
this text teaches the Rapture.
It is assumed that because the Lord said
he was going away and would come again
that an intermediate period for the Rapture
before the “final” end can be inserted.
Yet, one cannot build such a doctrine
in the parameters of this context. We’ll
get to that in a moment.
As we pointed out in the previous post,
What Did Charting the End Times Miss on the Rapture of the Church?, the overriding context of John 14, is Christ’s work as High ...
What Did Charting the End Times Miss On the Raptur...
April 19th, 2009 | Rapture of the church | 1 Comment
One of the most important elements of events is time, i.e.
when is that event going to occur. Everything in life is an
event in that everything occurs or exists in time.
What Did Charting the End Times Miss on the Rapture of
the Church? One of the most important elements of the
event, —time.
Charting the End Times, a very graphically pleasing book
of charts on eschatology authored by Tim Lahaye and
Thomas Ice, devotes a chapter on the Rapture. It is there
purpose to “chart” the time of the end, i.e. when the last days
events will occur. They begin with several points on the events of the ...