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TABLE OF CONTENTS Analytical Outline .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Abbreviations .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Preface to Third Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii Preface to Second Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv Preface to First Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. The Significance of Biblical Eschatology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. The Purpose of this Treatise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3. The Pessimistic Millennial Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 4. The Postmillennial System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 PART TWO: INTERPRETATION 5. The Revelation of Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 6. The Covenants of Redemption .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 7. The <strong>He</strong>rmeneutic of Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 PART THREE: EXPOSITION 8. Eschatology and Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 9. Eschatology and Anticipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 10. Eschatology and Realization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 11. Eschatology and Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 12. Eschatology and Consummation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 PART FOUR: SPECIFICATION 13. Eschatological Time Frames .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 14. Eschatological Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 15. Eschatological Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 16. Eschatological Apocalypse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 PART FIVE: OBJECTION 17. Pragmatic Objections .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 18. Theological Objections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 19. Biblical Objections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
PART SIX: CONCLUSION 20. Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 21. Appendix: The Hyper-preterist Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549 Books .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549 Articles, Chapters, Dissertations, and Papers .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581 INDEXES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 Scripture Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593 Subject Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605 Names Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
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Page 4: Dedicated to the memory of two serv
Page 9 and 10: Chapter 6: The Covenants of Redempt
Page 11 and 12: The Exhortations in John’s Conclu
Page 14 and 15: ABBREVIATIONS Biblical Note: In the
Page 16 and 17: Abbreviations CT Christianity Today
Page 18 and 19: Abbreviations K-D Keil, C. F. and F
Page 20 and 21: Abbreviations PSB Prophecy Study Bi
Page 23 and 24: “Christ Shall Have Dominion” Fr
Page 26 and 27: PREFACE Third Edition By the grace
Page 28 and 29: Preface xxix target for those who a
Page 30 and 31: Preface xxxi the “consistent pret
Page 32 and 33: Preface xxxiii But these are also t
Page 34: PART I INTRODUCTION
Page 37 and 38: 2 He Shall Have Dominion victory, c
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Page 41 and 42: 6 He Shall Have Dominion The Englis
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20 He Shall Have Dominion Augustine
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22 He Shall Have Dominion 58 hence,
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24 He Shall Have Dominion public ba
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26 He Shall Have Dominion which app
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28 He Shall Have Dominion 75 Ex 20:
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30 He Shall Have Dominion Such an h
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32 He Shall Have Dominion fortuity
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34 He Shall Have Dominion The Separ
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36 He Shall Have Dominion Timothy P
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38 He Shall Have Dominion of histor
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40 He Shall Have Dominion see no br
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42 He Shall Have Dominion 122 be li
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44 He Shall Have Dominion 132 premi
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46 He Shall Have Dominion Among ami
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48 He Shall Have Dominion Willem Va
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50 He Shall Have Dominion Hendrikus
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52 He Shall Have Dominion Because o
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54 He Shall Have Dominion 171 throu
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56 He Shall Have Dominion apostasy,
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58 He Shall Have Dominion provides
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60 He Shall Have Dominion Unfortuna
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62 He Shall Have Dominion This prob
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64 He Shall Have Dominion 15 ignora
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66 He Shall Have Dominion Many evan
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68 He Shall Have Dominion sented fo
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70 He Shall Have Dominion 37 makes
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72 He Shall Have Dominion republish
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74 He Shall Have Dominion successfu
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76 He Shall Have Dominion premillen
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78 He Shall Have Dominion matter: D
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80 He Shall Have Dominion 72 those
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82 He Shall Have Dominion make thei
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84 He Shall Have Dominion multivale
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86 He Shall Have Dominion add Progr
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88 He Shall Have Dominion you under
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90 He Shall Have Dominion be true t
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92 He Shall Have Dominion intensely
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Ch. 3: The Pessimistic Millennial V
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Representative Adherents In the anc
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47 “progressive dispensationalism
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9. Christ will call down fire from
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earth and reign with Christ. Of the
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7. God will intervene with fiery ju
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4 THE POSTMILLENNIAL SYSTEM The LOR
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Christ’s Spirit-filled people. Th
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y Louis Berkhof, Philip Schaff, Alb
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Clearly, the ancient advocates of p
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41 Whitby (AD 1638-1726), a Unitari
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“unrealistic expectation that Chr
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only one in that age of violent per
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promulgate, over the minds of men;
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the unbelievers can do none of thes
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nation, neither shall they learn wa
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nations for Thine inheritance,’ w
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lennialism. We discover such postmi
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Richard Sibbes (1577-1635) John Guy
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Reformed premillennialist J. Barton
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Conclusion Systematization of the v
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5 THE REVELATION OF TRUTH “So sha
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11 apostles insist that men accept
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The Providential Word God’s word
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Since we are fallen, temporal, and
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and justice” (Ps 33:4-5a). God’
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for faithful adherence to those ter
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I will deal with the significance o
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etween priests and ordinary men, bu
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In the new covenant era itself we d
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not stages in the revelation of the
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They were learning corporate respon
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Furthermore, eventually all men wil
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7 THE HERMENEUTIC OF SCRIPTURE Know
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Since Ryrie is perhaps the most pro
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Can anyone accept such views of Jer
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Feinberg agrees: “Every prophecy
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41 12:28; Lk 17:20-21). These proph
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This is the standard exposition of
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This argument is not at all persuas
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day.” Though it diminishes the fi
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Christian exegete must allow the Ne
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95 of a geographic and ethnic liter
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107 come.” Ancient rabbinic Judai
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Chung states: “For Jesus, then,
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Preterism has a secure foundation i
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As with any system developed by fal
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(1) The Church is not fulfilling in
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male nor female; for you are all on
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148 referring to the new covenant o
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Then they also will be a remnant fo
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speaks in such tones that we may no
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High Priest tries Jesus, even bring
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PART III EXPOSITION
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are its precursors? How will it be
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Then he declares that man should co
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2:16-17), fellowship with (Ge 3:8),
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over the works of Your hands; You h
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36 and Satan” (Rev 12:9; 20:2), w
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over reprobation. Christ’s resurr
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sovereign grace and redemptive sacr
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You also multiplied their children
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the expanding of these Land promise
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49:8-10 promises that Judah will ma
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king,” but as “my King.” Vers
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J. A. Alexander, E. W. Hengstenberg
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eference to Melchizedek in verse 4,
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judging between many nations and of
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and wide, and then preserves and ca
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crush the world kingdom, which appe
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as comprehensive as sin is, and mor
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other hand, amillennialism garners
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John Baptist, Christ’s divinely c
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14 employed.” Thus, his disciples
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The Coronation of the King A freque
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God, and we take captive every thou
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The Pentecostal Message. The first
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unbelieving populace. Just as the J
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41 reject it, thus causing its post
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accusation against him (Jn 18:34)
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Israel will be a glorious nation, p
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Conclusion The New Testament portra
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saw in chapter 8, “dominion” is
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nations. They are not simply to pre
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postmillennial emphasis, whereas th
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15 commitment” required to enter
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triumph of the Gospel — that it w
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• In the imagery of the parables,
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demands gradual growth: “The king
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it that the world must be restored
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46 Israel’s promises by becoming
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But notice what precedes the end. V
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Me” (Mt 28:18). He has both the r
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ism believes that at Christ’s sec
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66 fact, in John 7:38 Christ presen
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Some suggest, and I tend to agree,
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88 Christ. We have the very presenc
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1:7-11). We should be even more con
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disciple all nations. This is preci
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creature: Adam is to “cultivate
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world.” And we must understand th
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men, it will attain at last to a co
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of postmillennial eschatology, I wi
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clouds as symbols of God’s wrath
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taken up from you into heaven, will
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church only, and unseen and unknown
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are: (1) The resurrection of the ri
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45 and the Augsburg Confession. Of
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and the first “resurrection will
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Third, Scripture knows of only one
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made righteous at the resurrection
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ity for enjoying he blessings of th
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The doctrine of eternal punishment
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Scripture demonstrates (Lk 16:23; R
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concept of rewards points in this d
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As a part of his argument in this c
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Furthermore, this destruction termi
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PART IV SPECIFICATION
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4 about future events related to th
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Chronological Value The seventy wee
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Israel’s sins (Da 9:4ff) and the
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hand. Repent, and believe in the go
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45 years after the crucifixion, the
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(allegedly) allows for a gap betwee
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Several problems plague this interp
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60 5:39). Thus, Christ stands as hi
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conflicts that we see in our world
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80 81 the second coming,” that we
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eturn be imminent in the first cent
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in all of human history. We are abo
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coming and yet that his coming will
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“the key biblical passage for suc
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with a chain, which surely is not l
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14 ESCHATOLOGICAL FEATURES Now as H
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judgment upon Israel (cf. Dt 28:49;
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evealing themselves in the present,
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generation. Consequently, God’s j
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dismissive complaint: “Jesus spok
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Bloesch agrees: “Part of the prob
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metaphor explaining the divine prov
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things the universe stands: upon To
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Some dispensationalists even hold t
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Furthermore, Walvoord admits, “th
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This re-establishes what the New Te
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temple symbolizes God’s glorious
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cornerstone (Lk 20:17; 1Co 3:11, 16
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not be described in any other way.
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sorrow caused by his past displeasu
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New Testament mentions no other Old
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actual corporeal return of Elijah f
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Many writers argue that other figur
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from our future expectation but fro
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however, have representatives. This
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47 dies on June 8, AD 68, forty-two
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Paul warns of Jewish persecution:
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60 The evidence proves that the har
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them, and these are all acting cont
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70 some believe that the Day of the
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ministry among them allows it: they
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lawless one is according to the wor
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expectation, the preterist approach
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swiftness — even though it may no
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“great tribulation” (Rev 7:14)
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Then John steels his readers agains
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As the Lamb opens the seals, the ju
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29 hold back the “winds” (of de
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holy house burned down, and by the
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ises from the sea, which suggests t
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the city,” i.e., outside Jerusale
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56 Germany. The beast fails to dest
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Christ’s ministry upon earth unti
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Father has life in Himself, so He h
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(1) The time frame, following close
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PART V OBJECTION
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Herman Hoyt complains: “I am unab
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13 These and other writers would do
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moans the decline of Christianity,
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scholarly articles and technical bo
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Destiny; The Rapture Book: Victory
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48 God.” As Morton Smith observes
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seemed to him like a ‘few days’
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agrees: “The Bible clearly teache
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ism’s standard is the written rev
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accept any doctrine which could be
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Ryrie charges that the “social go
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asis of hope. Though many of the ho
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Our defense But is the preterist sc
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The Gospel of Matthew. Some scholar
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Rosemary Ruether, Faith and Fratric
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Commenting on Hab 2:8 they wrote:
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18 THEOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS So he ans
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Here the answer is: No. In both cas
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13 is genuine cause for concern.”
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21 in the rich blessings that flow
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Venema continues this line of criti
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ings “age to come” principles i
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ascended) Jesus embodies a power/vi
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elsewhere in the New Testament (e.g
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church’s existence” of which no
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deepest longings as sons of God (cf
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of argument. They forget the postmi
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19 BIBLICAL OBJECTIONS These were m
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This entire dispensational scheme i
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In the latter part of verse 5 the c
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Obviously, for the evangelical Chri
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never gain the upper hand in the wo
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Dispensationalists employ this vers
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will avenge them speedily” (Lk 18
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45 compromising the eschatological
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duration, and that He will not retu
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fire, and smoke” coming upon Jeru
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incarnation (Ac 3:18); Christ is Go
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2 Timothy 3:1-4, 13 But realize thi
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personal degeneration, i.e., the pr
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Indeed, all postmillennialists woul
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The postmill looks for a fulfillmen
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Riddlebarger stumbles badly later w
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(ta ethne) is a common phrase that
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20 CONCLUDING REMARKS Declaring the
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exercising God’s covenant lawsuit
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prophets (Ps 22:27-28; Isa 2:1-4; M
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APPENDIX THE HYPER-PRETERIST ERROR
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appear to be continually mutating,
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Creedal Failure 12 Brief Theologica
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Resurrection Errors Fifth, their mo
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History and Church Errors Eleventh,
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who have no need of marriage nor di
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can arise to eschatological glory.
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know that Adam was not immaterial,
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Christ himself points out that some
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As I argue on pages 355-56 above, h
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order that all things which are wri
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Vern Crisler, “The Eschatological
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He will redeem their life from oppr
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Bahnsen, Greg L. and Kenneth L. Gen
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Blomberg, Craig L. Blomberg and, Su
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Clark, David S. The Message from Pa
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Dean, D. A. Dean. Resurrection: His
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Faulkner, Neil. Apocalypse: The Gre
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Gentry, Kenneth L., Jr. The Charism
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Hay, David M. Glory at the Right Ha
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House, H. Wayne and Thomas D. Ice.
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Kline, M. G. Treaty of the Great Ki
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Lindsey, Hal. Planet Earth — 2000
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Mendenhall, G. E. Law and Covenant
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North, Gary. Is the World Running D
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Ramsey, William. The Letters to the
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Sandlin, Andrew, ed. Creation Accor
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Swete, Henry B. Commentary on Revel
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Walvoord, John F. Armageddon, Oil a
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Alexander, J. A. “The End is Not
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Gentry, Kenneth L., Jr. “Christ
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Lindsey, Hal. “The Rise of Babylo
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Ramsey, A. M. “What was the Ascen
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White, Fowler. “Agony, Irony, and
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Genesis 1:1 17, 18, 120 1:5 116 1:1
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13:10-13 154-55 13:17-22 153 19:1 2
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12:28 220, 241, 300, 519 12:28-29 5
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10:35 114 12:15-16 232 12:31 267, 5
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6:15 168, 367 6:16 82, 168, 520 Eph
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2 John 7 378 Jude 6 415 Revelation
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— A — abomination of desolation
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persecution of, 318, 381, 383, 392,
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— G — Gabriel, 317, 322 Gaius (
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Jew/Gentile distinction, 74, 168-69
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Olivet Discourse, 159-62, 333, 346,
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Revelation (of John), 162-165, ch.
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216, 359, 399, 401, 406, 493-96, 53
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Bruce, F. F., 5, 386, 502 — C —
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Hunt, Dave, 27,48, 56, 157, 237, 28
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— S — Sanders, E. P., 68 Saucy,
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