Are These Practical Implications of Preterism Prac...

March 23rd, 2009 | Preterism | No Comment  
Image via Wikipedia This is our last in the critique of Dr. Edward Hinson’s article referred to in previous posts. He lists several items as implications. We ask, Are These Practical Implications of Preterism Practical? Most of these are commonly believed by all futurists as serious implications to the Preterism or fulfilled Bible prophecy. Some of them are outright contradictions of texts which should be common knowledge for  Bible students. Destroys the Literal Meaning of the Bible Dr. Hinson argues that a fulfilled coming of Christ at AD 70 destroys the literal meaning of the Bible. He claims that once one argues that language of prophecy cannot be taken ...
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When Are Daniel’s 70 Weeks Fulfilled?

February 18th, 2009 | Book of Daniel | 5 Comments  
Image via Wikipedia Much has been written on the prophetic text of the Babylonian exile of Judah in an attempt to answer the question, When are Daniel’s 70 Weeks Fulfilled? Perhaps no prophetic text suffers more at the hands of exegetes than does that of Daniel 9:24–27. Dispensationalist Thomas Ice and others in that movement argue for a literal interpretation of the 70 weeks. However, their literalizing of the text results in both a logical contradiction and abandonment of their premise by inserting a 2000 plus year gap. They insert thousands of “weeks” into the final week resulting in non-fulfillment of the prophecy. However, the prophecy contains a very ...
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Is Worldwide Evangelism End Time Prophecy?

December 19th, 2008 | Day of the Lord | No Comment  
During the seventies, I heard a televangelist speak on end time prophecy. He spoke about how the Lord could not return until the gospel had been preached to all the world. At that time he believed it was impossible to do, because as far as communication was concerned, the world was yet an unchartered territory. During the 80’s and 90’s we started to hear for the first time about the global community. People were talking about how job competition was no longer an American issue. Now, employers began recruiting globally and potential employees began applying from all around the world to work in America to get their piece of the American dream. That resulted ...
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