Apocalypse
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 [...]
Peter 1:1/3 ¶ But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of [...]
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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During my walk with Christ I got caught up in the frenzy of trying to understand the apocalyptic events that many popular charismatic evangelists were preaching. I bought their books on the end times and was thouroughly convinced an imminent rapture was about to occur. Now 30 years later I have abandoned them because all [...]
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 [...]
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 Destruction Of JERUSALEM An Absolute and Irresistible PROOF OF THE DIVINE ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY: INCLUDING A NARRATIVE OF THE CALAMITIES WHICH BEFEL THE JEWS So far as they tend to verify OUR LORD’S PREDICTIONS Relative to that event. By George Peter Holford (Written in 1805) “I consider the Prophecy relative to the destruction of [...]
Heaven and Earth One beautiful day from the gentle slopes of a lush green hillside of Judea, our Lord addressed a great throng of disciples who had followed Him from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, all of Judea, and even from beyond the Jordan River. For many centuries now, devoted followers of our Lord Jesus [...]
Mark 13:1 ¶ And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! 2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown [...]
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