Eschatology Discussions Recently, there have been some new articles attempting to defend the Amillennial view of eschatology held by the churches of Christ, by men such as Patrick Donahue on Facebook and Ben Vick Jr at his website. I have written and published a response to the latter which you can find at this link, Ben Vick Jr. The dialogue on Facebook is largely headed up by Don K Preston of the Preterist Research Institute. I've also contributed to responses there on the topic of the earnest of the Spirit in Eph. 1:13-14, demonstrating it was miraculous. There are some excellent points that ...

Kingdom of God Established in Judgment Isaiah 2:2 is often used as a proof-text for the time of the kingdom to be established. The view of some is that AD 30 marks the time for the establishment of the church. However, the text of Isaiah 2 is much more broad than this narrowly interpretive view. In fact, the very first verse of Isaiah 2 expresses a burden, a prophetic utterance which means judgment. Thus, to interpret the text without incorporating the primary purpose for which is is written is extremely naive. I once held such a view but had to abandon it ...