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, ...
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 ...
In Dispensationalism Does At Hand Mean Not At Hand...
April 1st, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment
In Dispensationalism Does “At Hand” Mean
“Not At Hand”? When the Lord spoke of his
kingdom, he said the time was fulfilled, and
the kingdom had drawn near. (Mark 1:14, 15).
Christ came to make good on the promise of the restoration of the
kingdom to Israel. For this reason the disciples preached announcing the kingdom as at hand. Christ sent them neither to the Gentiles or Samaritans, but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, (Matt. 10:5,6)
Christ sent the disciples to the lost sheep of the house of Israel with a false message. What do we mean? They did so, in complete obedience to Christ, rejoicing at ...
When Would God Restore the Kingdom to Israel?
March 23rd, 2009 | Kingdom | No Comment
We continue our response to the arguments
raised by Dr. Hinson’s article, the New Last
Days Scoffers, published in the May 2005
issue of The National Liberty Journal.
This writing answers the question of When
Would God Restore the Kingdom to Israel?
The question assumes that God is finished
with Israel. We discussed that particular
issue in the previous post, regarding
Romans 11.
These are merely straw man arguments which are assumed to be implications for Christ’s first century return.
If the church replaces Israel and becomes the kingdom of God on earth, why did the disciples ask Jesus at the ascension; “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom ...