Covenant Eschatology
The Article attached to this post explains why futurism and dispensational views , give weight to those who doubt the validity of the christian faith. We have to put on the armour of God to defend the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Just as the reformation changed the world ,by challenging the [...]
Dating And Interpreting The Contents of the Gospels and The Apocalypse (Revelation) Second, overlooking its original author and audience. In a quest for “relevance,” commentators of the historicist and futurist schools seem to forget that John addressed Revelation to real, historical churches (Rev. 1:4, 11) about pressing and dire problems that he and they [...]
Quotations of the Bible From Early Christian LiteratureThe number of such quotations of the Bible known from early Christian literature is vast – over 36,000 quotes are known from before the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. (McDowell, p. 52). Sir David Dalrymple once asked himself the question, “Suppose that the New Testament had been [...]
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Many Christians today have a feeling of inadequacy. This is because they have very little understanding of the positional statements in the new covenant writings that are known as the letters. The Gospels all end with the triumphant victory of Christ over the world. The Epistles (Letters) reveal our corporate identity with Christ in his [...]
Figures of Speech found in the Scriptures. When one is young in the Lord , and we set out to read the scriptures, our understanding is often clouded through a limited knowledge of the metaphors used by the scribes. Sometimes others add to this confusion. Mt 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto [...]
Preface. I have undertaken this work, to promote the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and his Covenant with those of mankind who have placed their God given faith in him. During my many sojourns amongst various denominations there were truths I learnt and falsehoods that were being propagated as divinely inspired. It is important [...]
I recently downloaded the Pdf File of this document from Google books. I have created an excerpt from this on his conclusions on the chronology of the scriptures. It makes intresting reading for those intrested in the differing views of Chronology. The original was published in the 1830′s and contains Profane History and Bible History. [...]
John 6:15 “When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed” I. CONTEXT OF THE REIGN The term “thousand years” should be understood as an apocalyptic reference to the throne of Christ as King over temporal Israel in its last days. The period in [...]
The Comforter (Part 2) John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. Providential guidance and our direction throughout our lives will [...]
Prologue Excerpt By F F Bruce When the Persian king Cyrus brought the Babylonian Empire to an end in 539 B.C., he authorized a body of Jewish displaced persons to return to their home in Judæa, from which they had been deported by Nebuchadnezzar two generations previously, and to rebuild their national shrine in Jerusalem. [...]
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