Category Archives: eschatology

Blood moons and Jewish feasts

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 18, 2008
If you’re into premillennial headline eschatology, this one might be for you. Former blogger Mitch Guthrie recently passed along a recent GodTube.com video (~30 minutes) of a rather enthusiastic presentation by Steve Hadley of Harvest Family Fellowship Reno Nevada regarding the extremely rare alignment of solar and lunar eclipses (”blood moons”) with the major Jewish [...]
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An open response regarding Christian environmentalism

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: July 22, 2008
In the comments to a recent post on Al Gore, Christianity and environmentalism, TC made the following statements (quoted, but edited together – emphasis mine): I’m all for a cleaner environment for our enjoyment and our children’s children, but where is the biblical mandate? [...] We’re told in Scripture to love ourselves and not to destroy [...]
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Jealousy and fullness: revisiting Acts 13:48

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 20, 2008
Revisiting Acts 13:48, Steve (Undeception) has written on the topic of the elect and predestination from his full preterist perspective. Working primarily from Romans 9-11, he writes that: God’s purpose in election was not to arbitrarily divide all of humanity into two groups, the saved and the damned, but to further His redemptive purpose in a [...]
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Surprised by Heaven?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 5, 2008
I’ve gone and done something rather uncharacteristic for me: walked into a bookstore and purchased something from the Christian section. In this case, it is N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church“. I’ve seen mention of the author many times in various blogs, but have never investigated further. [...]
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Is eschatology milk?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 25, 2008
The author of Hebrews has some biting words about the Christian maturity of his or her audience. In 5:12, the author writes, “By this time you ought to be teachers, but instead you need someone to teach you the ABCs of God’s oracles over again. It comes to this: you need milk instead of solid [...]
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