Words wither and blogs fade away…
Forgive me if you’ve heard this song before, but I've decided to stop blogging at He is Sufficient. I truly appreciate all of the wit, wisdom and words of faith that you have shared with me over the past few years. I wish you well in all of your endeavors, whatever they may be and wherever they may lead you. “God is sufficient for the needs of His people”. Amen!
Category Archives: eschatology
Is eschatology milk?
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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A battle hymn for truth, justice and the Pope’s way
Whether by omission or commission, not a word was written here about the Pope’s recent visit to the United States. Frankly I don’t have the context to fairly speak about Roman Catholicism and the role of the Pope. My exposure to the Roman Catholic Church is limited to a few months of attending different services [...]
Looking at life after Revelation 20
On the heels of Bryan’s recent post that Revelation 20 was John’s message of “hope, understanding, and calls for endurance” for the persecuted first-century Christians, rather than a thesis of millennialism, comes a new post from Steve at Undeception focused on the consummation of Christ’s reign and the reward of living in the Kingdom, not [...]
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Peter’s conditional prophecy of the Parousia
In his essay, “Hyper-Preterism and Unfolding Biblical Eschatology“, published as part of When Shall These Things Be? A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism (ed. Keith Mathison), Richard Pratt Jr. challenges the full preterist position that the prophetic time texts of the New Testament can only be read as they are stated and, as such, are an [...]
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Looking again at Revelation 20
Bryan Lilly has posted a new discussion of Revelation 20, focused on the idea that “Revelation 20 is not John’s doctoral thesis of the millennium”, but that he (John) is “writing to a group of people in the first century that were going through intense persecution [...] to give them hope, understanding, and calls for [...]
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What were you doing on December 17, 1994?
Evidently that was the exact date of the opening of the First Seal (Revelation 6:1), according to Ronald Weinland, author of “2008 – God’s Final Witness“. Proclaiming himself revealed as one of the two end-times witnesses (Revelation 11:3-13), Weinland summarizes his most recent book: Although the Church of God has not been accustomed to having [...]
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Finding a label for the past…
**Update** I’ve expanded the opening paragraphs from the original posting to provide a little more context. I also changed the article title to be less negative. On my About page, I wrote that: “I grew up in a non-denominational Christian church and never paid any attention to doctrine, creed or theological issues, if such things [...]
The heart of preterism
I was first exposed to the (partial) preterist viewpoint a number of years ago and it made a very logical argument in terms of understanding Israel’s covenantal history, as well as John’s writing in an original context. Since then, I’ve been under the perspective that the majority of OT prophetic text, the gospels’ account of [...]
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