In this video, Sproul begins to lay his preterist interpretation of the Olivet Discourse by stating that the events predicted by Jesus were fulfilled in A. D. 70. Stanley D. Toussaint discusses the four major views of the Olivet Discourse. The first view is called the critical interpretation. This view does not even believe that [...]
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Who are Partial Preterists? Part 4
Posted: May 22, 2009 in End Time Events, PreterismTags: A D 70, David Chilton, Gary DeMar, Greg L. Bahnsen, J. Marcellus Kik, Jay Adams, Kenneth Gentry, Ligonier Ministries, Preterists, R. C. Sproul, Resurrection, Second Coming, The Last Days According to Jesus, Thomas Ice
Thomas Ice identifies several important partial preterists. Within Covenant theology men like Jay Adams and J. Marcellus Kik are partial preterists. Ice also identifies Greg L. Bahnsen, who is a Reformed and Reconstructionist preterist who was influential in producing other preterists like David Chilton, Gary DeMar, and Kenneth Gentry. Ice makes note that the [...]
Is Your Name in the Book of Life? Part Last
Posted: May 19, 2009 in End Time EventsTags: Blotting out, John Walvoord, The Book of Life, The Lamb's Book of Life
This is the final post in our series on the Book of Life. The last view is my preference. Both Books are the Same but “Blotted Out” only refers to Physical Death as Punishment Only believers are in the Book of Life which is synonymous with the Lamb’s Book of Life. Only believers who were [...]
Is Your Name in the Book of Life? Part 2
Posted: May 18, 2009 in End Time EventsTags: Arnold Fruchtembaum, John Walvoord, Robert Thomas, The Book of Life, The Lamb's Book of Life
In our first post, we discussed Arnold Fruchembaum’s view on the Book of Life and the Lamb’s Book of life. He sees these books as two separate books. The names of all people are in the Book of life and only the names of believers are in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Robert Thomas disagrees [...]
Is your Name in The Book of Life? Part 1
Posted: May 17, 2009 in End Time EventsTags: Arnold Fruchtembaum, Footsteps of the Messiah, John Walvoord, Lamb's Book of Life, Robert Thomas, The Book of Life
Does Revelation 3:5 imply that a believer can lose his salvation and have his name blotted out of “the Book of Life?” The Arminian interpretation would say “Yes!” In preparation for my Sunday school lesson on Philippians 4:3, I was amazed at the different views on “The Book of Life” and “The Lamb’s Book of [...]
Is the “Day of the Lord” before or after the Tribulation?
Posted: January 1, 2009 in End Time EventsTags: Day of the Lord, Posttribulational Rapture, pretribulationistist
The Church will be raptured before the Day of the Lord according to the pretribulationalist view and after by the posttribulationalist view. Which is correct? The “Day of the Lord” is a huge OT concept that describes times when God intervenes in history. In Zephaniah 1:14, the day of the Lord refers to the Babylonian [...]
Can sinners be saved in the Tribulation who heard the gospel before the Rapture?
Posted: December 26, 2008 in End Time EventsTags: "Left Behind", Dwight Pentecost, John Walvoord, postribulationist, pretribulationistist, Rapture, Salvation, Thomas L. Constable, Tribulation Period
CAN sinners who heard the gospel and are “Left Behind” at the Rapture be saved in the Tribulation Period? Anxious people have been asking this question since the first century. Have you ever asked this question? Because of the persecution the Thessalonians were enduring, they had been deceived into thinking they had missed the rapture and [...]
What is the Eschatology of Islam?
Posted: December 12, 2008 in End Time EventsTags: End Time Events, Islam
Islam has three major principles. One principle is called tawhid which has to do with the unity of Allah. Another principle is nubuuwa or prophecy. But the principle called Qiyamah is the principle of eschatology. Most of the information concerning Islamic eschatology comes not from the most sacred of Islamic books, the Qu’ran, but from [...]
