Because Israel has been privileged with being God’s chosen people, they are placed squarely in the center of history and prophecy. Israel is no larger than the state of New Jersey, and the Jewish people comprise about a quarter of one percent of the world’s population. How is it then that they play…
Interpretive Approach I will approach this study from a futurist approach, from a premillennial, dispensational perspective. More will be said in a later chapter about the differing methods of interpretation. Dispensational premillennialism can be identified by two basic features: First, a literal hermeneutic. In other words, the words and statements in Scripture should…
The Certainty of His Second Coming Let me begin by highlighting some interesting facts: Christ’s second coming is mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments eight times more often than His first coming.Only the doctrine of salvation is mentioned more often than the doctrine of His second coming, making the doctrine of the…
“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where…
According to an old story, the powerful Prussian King Frederick the Great had a chaplain who was a Bible-believer, though Frederick himself was a rationalist. One day, Frederick challenged his chaplain, “In a word, give me a good argument for the God of the Bible.” His chaplain, a knowledgeable man, responded, “The Jew, your majesty!”…