Rescuing the Future: The Historicist Approach to Bible Prophecy
Gordan Runyan
Check out this short list of Christians who were mightily used of God to change the world in their days: Athanasius, Justin Martyr, Jerome, Tertullian, Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, William Tyndale, John Wycliffe, Matthew Henry, Thomas Cranmer, John Gill, John Owen, Charles H. Spurgeon, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, Adam Clarke, B.H. Carroll.
Now here's the rub: if you are the average Evangelical Christian in the modern world, what you have been taught to believe about the end-times, the apocalypse, the Antichrist, 666, and pretty much the whole of Bible prophecy represents something completely different than what any of these men believed. Their beliefs about the prophecies of the Bible and the end of the world constitute something called Historicism, an approach to eschatology that has been dominant within Christianity until the last two centuries.
In this essay, pastor Gordan Runyan will introduce you to this form of prophetic interpretation. If you're old enough to have started growing weary of the failed predictions of Dispensational prophecy "experts," or the decades' worth of embarrassingly bad guesses about who the Antichrist might be, take a few moments to gain some historical perspective. You might just conclude that an army of heroes of the faith from the past centuries were not as ignorant about prophecy as some would have you believe.
Now here's the rub: if you are the average Evangelical Christian in the modern world, what you have been taught to believe about the end-times, the apocalypse, the Antichrist, 666, and pretty much the whole of Bible prophecy represents something completely different than what any of these men believed. Their beliefs about the prophecies of the Bible and the end of the world constitute something called Historicism, an approach to eschatology that has been dominant within Christianity until the last two centuries.
In this essay, pastor Gordan Runyan will introduce you to this form of prophetic interpretation. If you're old enough to have started growing weary of the failed predictions of Dispensational prophecy "experts," or the decades' worth of embarrassingly bad guesses about who the Antichrist might be, take a few moments to gain some historical perspective. You might just conclude that an army of heroes of the faith from the past centuries were not as ignorant about prophecy as some would have you believe.
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Рік:
2012
Видавництво:
Happy Siege
Мова:
english
ISBN:
19249244
Файл:
EPUB, 157 KB
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english, 2012