The Kingdom in Matthew 16:27-28 and Revelation 5 P...

December 20th, 2012 | Eschatology | No Comment  
Coming of the Kingdom and Calvin Frost's response to our last post focused on my comments on John Calvin's Kingdom paradigm. Frost presented Calvin as placing the kingdom events of Matthew 16:28 in a Pentecost/Ascension time frame. If that is the case, then, yes, it is quite possible that I misunderstood Calvin words. I simply did not take them to mean what Frost said they meant. Let's examine them: “Understand the coming of the kingdom of God’ as the manifestation of the heavenly glory which Christ inaugurated at His resurrection and showed more fully by sending the Holy Spirit and by performing ...
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Rapture-holics Lost at Armageddon|Kings of the Eas...

March 12th, 2009 | Armageddon | No Comment  
Rapture-holics Lost at Armageddon,-Kings of the East in Revelation? This title that qualifies also as a paragraph. But, here’s a story to explain what it’s all about. It all happened when during my usual routine day of relaxation, I received an urgent phone call from a customer in distress. Hurriedly, I ran out of the door, jumped in my pickup and hit the expressway in route to my customer’s location or so I thought. My best customer needed service, -right away. The distance, several miles away, required urgency to arrive before the closing hour. I didn’t want to go. I wanted a way out, ...
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Who Is the Ancient of Days in Daniel 7?

November 15th, 2008 | Book of Revelation | 19 Comments  
Daniel 7, a hotbed for eschatological theorizing, continues to baffle commentators, past and present. The solution to the identity of the Ancient of Days is in my opinion, one that is without controversy. The most common designation this obviously Divine character is God himself. This view largely stems from the reading of the text. Variant renderings are: The Son of Man comes to the Ancient of Days The Son of Man comes as the Ancient of Days In the first rendering the Father is meant. In the second it refers to the Son. Can we solve this debate of Who is the Ancient of Days in Daniel 7? Have you ever overlooked the obvious when it was ...
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