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Prophecy and the Meaning of History: Why Word and Spirit Matter
Vol. 10, No. 5 • Sep/Oct 2001
“I believe … in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.” Why are we here? Where are we going? Does history have any point to it, or is it, in the familiar words of Macbeth, “a story told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”? Because God has spoken, the […]
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Back to the Future, Rightly Understood
“I believe … in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.” Why are we here? Where are we going? Does history have any point to it, or is it, in the familiar words of Macbeth, “a story told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”? Because God has spoken, the […]
The Gospel and the Second Coming
The term “millennium” has entered Christian speech under the influence of the twentieth chapter of the book of Revelation. From that passage, imperfectly understood, there has also been derived the idea that is connected with this term. We say, from that passage imperfectly understood. For the book of Revelation is a symbolic book; that is […]
Prophecy as Fiction?
Horton: Dr. Tim LaHaye is a noted author, minister, educator, and nationally recognized speaker on Bible prophecy. He’s the president of Tim LaHaye Ministries, and founder of the Pre-Trib Research Center. He is one of the nation’s most popular authors, especially these days, having written more than forty books, and his current fiction works are […]
The Oracles of God: “The Old Testament Canon” by Andrew E. Steinmann
With The Oracles of God, Lutheran pastor and professor of Old Testament at Ashland University, Andrew Steinmann, has made a fresh and invaluable contribution to an important and much-debated topic-the dating and assembling of the Old Testament canon. By a comprehensive examination of Jewish, Christian, and secular sources, Dr. Steinmann convincingly argues that the widely […]
Luther on the End Times
For we, who are Christians, should hope for the coming of this judgment and desire it with our whole heart; as we pray for it in the words; Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, deliver us from evil; so that we may also hear the glad and welcome words: Come, ye blessed, into the […]
Where Have All the Spiritual Gifts Gone?
Cessationism is a term that carries a lot of baggage. By itself it’s negative, suggesting what no longer exists or, in current debate about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, what one is against. So at the outset, certain misconceptions about the “cessationist” viewpoint need to be addressed. It’s not that today God’s Spirit is […]
