I’m a peeping premillennialist
Covenant theologians have been pointing out problems with premillennialism for decades, usually of the dispensationalist variety. There are difficulties in the premillennial system. Fair enough, but...
View ArticleThe real “replacement” theology
Thesis: The church doesn’t replace Israel; Jesus does. Every spiritual blessing was won by Christ. The new testament says these blessings are “in him,” and if we are in Christ, then they belong to us....
View ArticlePremillennial connections…?
C. Marvin Pate writes, “A spiritual resurrection can hardly explain the compensation provided for the martyrs in verse 4. From John’s perspective they are physically dead but spiritually alive. What...
View ArticleIn which I commend my EO friends
I meant to write several appreciative posts of figures in Eastern Orthodoxy, but I never got around to it. Instead, on a post where I relayed numerous Protestant difficulties with verifying oral...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Eschatological Christ
The most exciting part of my theological development (and in somewhat Hegelian fashion, predating an immediate downfall) was my discovery of New Testament eschatology seen in the Redemptive-Historical...
View ArticleReview of Horton’s God of Promise
This review is dedicated to the Rev. Bret McAtee. Michael Horton in this book gives the church and updated primer on covenant theology, drawing upon and routinely surpassing the works of Meredith...
View ArticleReview of the Criswell Millennial Debate
This is worth a listening to. I haven’t yet listened to the non-premil positions. I plan to listen to Beale’s. I’ve read so much of Gentry and Bahnsen I am really wondering if I should bother. I’m...
View ArticleThe promise and peril of premillennialism: Or, why I might be a historicist
For five years I’ve held to a roughly historic premillennial position. It is the most consistent and common-sense reading of Rev. 19-20, and OT promise-language. I’ve always had some doubts, though....
View ArticleGary North defeated my eschatology
I’ve defended historic premillennialism for the last five to seven years. I’m coming to a Reformed position–the Reformers’ position. I don’t want to say postmillennialism for a few reasons: 1) I am...
View ArticlePatriarch Bartholomew on Abortion
I’ve known of this for a while, which is partly why I never got his book on the Orthodox Church. To be fair, he doesn’t believe that abortion is a good, but he tells the globalists exactly what they...
View ArticleRetractare After Seven Years
My friend Daniel Ritchie has offered his own version of retractare in the past. I want to do mine. These are in no particular order. The Theonomy People I’ve listed problems with theonomy before....
View ArticleAmillennial Historicism
I read the entry for antichristus in Richard Muller’s Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms, Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Sources. He gives the basic summary of the...
View ArticleEschatological Presuppositions: Historicism
While Turretin’s argument that Jesus is the Messiah may not convince many Jews, he does have an interesting discussion of prophetic day = year theory. As such, he is within the Reformed spectrum and...
View ArticleAn Eschatological Musing
There is no logical contradiction between the fact that some nations covenant with Christ in the last days but yet Antichrist rules over some nations and wars with the saints. I think even a lot of...
View ArticleA reflection on some millennial positions
Criswell college did a decent job on these debates. I know it is fashionable and good form to make fun of traditional dispensationalism, but I sometimes wonder if that intellectual sip has already...
View ArticleHoekema’s exegesis of Revelation 20
Hoekema (1979) follows the line of thought suggested by Simon Kistemaker’s More than Conquerors. Like other amillennialists, he sees the book as a series of seven capitulations. His presentation is...
View ArticleDo you claim Pseudo-Dionysius?
(This is kind of a repost, but it dovetails with some stuff I’ve been thinking of lately). I never quite understood the impact that Ps-Dionysius had on theology until recently. (The Title is taken...
View ArticleProphecy books reading list
I’ve found the following books helpful on eschatology and prophecy, even those with which I disagree. Moore, Russell. The Kingdom of Christ: A New Evangelical Perspective. I disagree with his...
View ArticleAn electronic self-reflection
I plan to keep this blog up. While my scholarship isn’t anything to brag about, I have read a lot on a lot of stuff that most evangelicals haven’t. And some people find it helpful. The identity of...
View ArticleI’ll keep it open
I will keep this blog open and update occasionally. My other idea I will shelve and slowly nurture into something like a “Post-Trib Research Center,” in direct contrast to another site of similar...
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