Category: Eschatology

  • Rebuild a Third Temple?

    There has long been a Zionist desire to rebuild the Third Temple. This desire is found among some Zionist Jews but many more Zionist Christians. Jews today go to the “wailing” wall (aka Western Wall) to mourn the destruction of the Temple and pray for a third temple to be built there. I was there…

  • Land Promises to Israel Were Already Fulfilled

    In the time of Joshua, all the land promises were fulfilled. Joshua 21:43-45 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and…

  • Time Markers and Bible Prophecy

    The Olivette Discourse is the words of Jesus that he spoke from the Mount of Olives. This is found in Matt 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21. It describes the events that would happen to Jerusalem. Jesus is answering a question that the disciple asks him. Matt 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount…

  • Epistle Reading 2024-12-11

    ST. PAUL’S SECOND LETTER TO THE THESSALONIANS 2:1-12Brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to meet him, we beg you not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the day of…

  • Gospel Reading 2024-11-22

    LUKE 19:12-28 The Lord said this parable, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive a kingdom and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten pounds, and said to them, ‘Trade with these till I come.’ But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, ‘We do not…

  • Orthodox View of Dispensationalism

    The End Times – Orthodox Vs Evangelical Protestant Teachings – Presentation 3 A good overview of Dispensationalism as contrasted to Orthodoxy.

  • Orthodox Eschatology Series

    Fr. John Brown presents a series of lectures on “The End Times: A comparison between the Orthodox understanding and Evangelical Protestant Teachings.”

  • When is the end?

    One of the issues that this passage raises for me is that of timing. Is this describing the events of the Second Coming of Christ, which is yet future from us now, or is this describing the events of 70 A. D.? Apocalyptic language is much slippier than we often realize. We tend to read…

  • The ten virgins

    Finding the historical center This passage causes me much difficulty when I try to find its historical center. By that I mean, Jesus referring to something future from Him, but is it past, present or future to us? If it is describing something in the past, then there are lessons to learn from this, but…

  • Lectionary Text for week ending 11-6-2005

    Matt 25:1-13 The Ten Virgins (NASB) “Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. “Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent. “For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the prudent took oil…

  • The Wright Apocalyptic View

    Or, The Past May Really Be the Future The apocalyptic is where N. T. Wright may be hardest to follow for many readers who are not used to a more realized eschatology. What does all of that mean? When the New Testament writers are writing about the future, is that future one that is mostly…

  • Test cases and proof texts

    Test cases are almost the reverse of proof texts. A test case is a passage that is run through a paradigm to see if the paradigm can work with the test cases. A set of proof tests is used to construct a paradigm. Theological systems are paradigms. My last BLOG entry consisted of one such…

  • The Church and Israel – Rom 9:1-5

    Few topics have caused as much controversy in the Evangelical churches as that of the relationship of the church and Israel. Much of this controversy comes from the popularity of End Times books by Tim LaHaye. Having failed to have a lasting effect in the scholarly community, modern Dispensationalists, like LaHaye, have taken up the…

  • Scriptural Synthesis

    The Grammatical-Historical-Contextual (GHC) method is the method used by many people to understand Scripture. Using the GHC method a person is said to be able to come away with the original meaning of the Scripture as the author intended. There is much in the GHC method to commend itself. There are also weaknesses in the…