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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: The Reformed Reader!
How Could Everybody Be So Wrong About Biblical Prophecy?
Rapture?
Pre-Trib? Post-Trib? Millennium? Confused? You should be! In today?s
Evangelical Christian world, eschatology?or the study of the ?Last
Things??has been turned into a sort of pseudo-science with a plethora of
authors claiming to know exactly the scenario of events that are to take place
just prior to the Lord Jesus Christ?s return.
On one hand, believers are told they must follow the unbiblical, complex and
bizarre scheme of Dispensationalism, with its ?Secret Rapture,? political
Anti-Christ and worldly Millennium. On the other, those in the ?full preterist?
camp tell them that all biblical prophecy has been fulfilled in the past and
that they should not look for the sky to break open and Our Lord to descend in
judgment and triumph.
But the author of this work claims that both are wrong and that eschatology,
despite what many will tell you, is really a rather simple and straight forward
affair. His thesis is that there is This Age, and The Age to Come
. . . we will be, or are, in either one or the other. Any ?End Times? system
that forms a hybrid of these two, or contradicts this simple formula, is
unbiblical, and should be rejected!
Piece by piece, Waldron strips away years of false teaching and faulty exegesis
thrust upon the church to reveal what the Bible, in its own simple but profound
way, says about what will happen at the end of this present age.
This is the best
overview of eschatology in print...hands down! Sam Waldron provides
clear answers to some of the questions we've struggled with for years.
His arguments against pretribulationism and dispensationalism are
masterful. And his exposition of Revelation 20:1-10?the infamous
"thousand years"?is the best we have seen. Most
importantly, he brings eschatology and the Gospel back into their proper
relationship with each other, showing us the continuity of God's
redemptive plan through to its ultimate consumation in the new heavens
and new earth. An essential read. Published by Calvary Press (250pp/pb). |
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