Notwithstanding Mark Hitchcock’s pretribulationism, his Ph.D dissertation is a refutation of the early dating of the Book of Revelation argued by preterists. You can download it here for free: http://www.pre-trib.org/data/pdf/hitchcock-dissertation.pdf
Hermeneutics
Seals, Trumpets, Bowls – At the Same Time or One After the Other? i.e. Concurrent-Recapitulation or Consecutive-Progressive?
I am writing a book responding to posttribulationism. It will be the first prewrath book that substantively engages the posttribulational view. Even though my book Antichrist Before the Day of the Lord responds to relevant points on posttribulationism, this forthcoming book will be completely devoted to the posttrib interpretation. My hope is that it will […]
How to — and Not to — Perform “Word” Studies in Greek and Hebrew
I highly recommend reading the following article on doing “word” studies, and how to avoid fallacious “word” studies. I place the word “word” in italics because there is no such thing as a word having a meaning outside of its context. And yet, it is assumed by so many interpreters that words can have meanings […]
On the Wheat and Weeds Parable
I have been asked to comment on the issue of chronology in the parable of the wheat and weeds. I have written on this parable before. I’d like to request that before anyone write to me asking about a particular question, that you first try searching for it on my blog to see if I […]
Daniel’s 70th Week
Joel Richardson has some helpful comments on the topic of the 70th week of Daniel. http://www.joelstrumpet.com/?p=5999
“Introduction to Messianic Judaism”: An Approach to the Bible and Christianity That Relates to Judaism and Jewish Ethnicity
http://www.koinoniablog.net/2013/12/introduction-to-messianic-judaism-joel-willits-david-rudolph.html
More Christians are Denying a Literal Return of Jesus
I am seeing more professing Christians—especially on the left—down play, or deny it all together, a future literal return of Jesus. It is reduce to a metaphor. Steve Hays recently commented on something that relates to my observation: http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2013/08/three-story-eschatology.html It’s become fashionable on the evangelical left to say the creation account in Gen 1 reflects […]
A Reply to Jim Hamilton and Other Historic Premillennialists
http://mydigitalseminary.com/3-premillennialists-duke-it-out/ I appreciated Darrel Bock’s response to Jim Hamilton: Bock: Unnecessarily divisive? Does the discussion of adult versus infant baptism apply in the same way? This is a question that risks saying internal discussion needs to be properly ordered and really does not matter. But these internal discussion are worth airing out because they may […]
Review of Barry Horner’s “Future Israel” by John Battle
Barry E. Horner, Future Israel: Why Christian Anti-Judaism Must Be Challenged (Nashville, Tenn.: B & H Academic, 2007). Pp. 394. Reviewed by John A. Battle. Barry Horner, pastor and author, believes that the conservative Christian church of our day—in particular, the Reformed branch of that church, to which he belongs and with which he is […]
The Major Problem With the Idealist Interpretation to the Book of Revelation
There are four interpretive models to the book of Revelation: preterist, historicist, futurist, and idealist. This latter model, the idealist interpretation, is probably the most common interpretation found in Christendom. Greg Herrick defines it as such: In this understanding, the contents of the book are not seen to relate to any historical events at all, […]
A Case for a Literal Temple in Ezekiel 40-48
https://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/interpreting-ezekiels-temple-vision/ https://hipandthigh.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/literally-reading-ezekiel-40-48/