What saith the Scripture

Exposition of Revelation (MP3 Series) by G. K. Beale This monumental study of the book of Revelation will be especially helpful to scholars, pastors, students, and others seriously interested in interpreting the Apocalypse for the benefit of the church. Too often Revelation is viewed as a book only about the future. As G. K. Beale shows, however, Revelation is not merely a futurology but a book about how the church should live for the glory of God throughout the ages -- including our own. Approaching Revelation in terms of its own historical background and literary character, Beale argues convincingly that John’s use of Old Testament allusions -- and the way the Jewish exegetical tradition interpreted these same allusions -- provides the key for unlocking the meaning of Revelation’s many obscure metaphors. In the course of Beale’s careful exegesis, which also untangles the logical flow of John’s thought as it develops from chapter to chapter, it becomes clear that Revelation’s challen

Inaugurated who? Inaugurated eschatology. Eschatology is generally understood as the “study of end times,” but when used with reference to inaugurated eschatology, it refers specifically… Yes, we are talking about the kingdom of God being understood as both “already” (inaugurated) and “not yet” (not consummated). This is pretty much the standard view on the kingdom of God within NT scholarship and is considered essential for those of us who are Third Wave Continuationists (or in the Vineyard movement!). Think along the lines of George Eldon Ladd, or modern scholars such as N.T. Wright, Gordon D. Fee, or G.K. Beale. At any rate, here are eight reasons, with corresponding Scriptures and commentary, that lead me to the conclusion that inaugurated eschatology is the best approach to understanding the kingdom of God. This is not an attempt to list every passage of Scripture that clarifies this eschatological view, as time would need to be spent examining the Gospels in more detail. So as a

What is happening in the narrative of Matthew 23? Do we not see Jesus Christ pronouncing the knell of doom on the apostate Jewish ‘Church?’ Time after time, in this passage, our Lord pronounces woe upon the Scribes and Pharisees, the religious leaders of Israel in that day. In them the whole development of the Jewish apostasy reaches its culmination [verses.Matthew 23: 34,35]. Jesus also made it clear that this doom that he was threatening would not be long in coming. “I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation” [Matthew 23:36].  “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem” cried our heart—broken Savior “how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate” [Matthew 23:37,38]. Up to this time the Temple in Jerusalem was still acknowledged to be the house of God. That is why our Lord cleansed the Temple. But he had also denounced the fact that they had made his

THE INVISIBLE REIGN OF CHRIST AND COMING IN THE CLOUDS THE INVISIBLE REIGN OF CHRIST AND COMING IN THE CLOUDS I once received this question regarding the invisible reign of Christ and His coming in the clouds: "I was wondering, since the Apostles have gone to the Lord some 2000 years ago, and you say that Christ promised to come in THEIR generation (by the meaning of the word "generation" you mean the immediate one -- their life times), can you please explain where he is presently ruling, for all eyes to see and all ears to hear on this earth? As in Wherefore, if they shall say unto you. Behold, he is in the desert: go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers: believe it not. Matt 24:26 Are you alluding to some kind of Jehovah's Witness idea that Christ is in fact invisibly ruling the earth or on the earth at this time? Behold he cometh with the clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him and all the kindred's of the earth shall wail