If “soon” means near to the time when we hear a modern prophecy enthusiast say that Jesus’ coming is “soon,” then why didn’t “soon” mean “soon” to Revelation’s first readers?
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There were very few if any atheists in early America, although there were a number of religious skeptics. But even these could not develop a moral worldview on reason alone. They continually pointed to the Bible, even if they rejected its revelational claims.
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Hermeneutics is the art and science of interpretation. We use it every day by reading other people’s body language and tone of voice, among many other visual cues. Written words in the Bible don’t have these cues, but we still need to read them as if we were the original recipients of the NT messages and letters in the first century.
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Many futurists are vehemently opposed to any argument put forth by any preterist, to the point that they call it heresy, even though they must reword and redefine simple words in the New Testament. Gary gives some advice about how to approach such people.
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Every political system, even atheistic ones, is theocratic if either the individual (Libertinism, Moral Anarchy, King, Monarch) or the group (Democracy, Oligarchy) is the basis of what’s morally right or wrong.
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The NT often uses OT language to show that similar events are soon to pass in the first century. Israel’s history often feels like a series of cyclical events and Paul even mentions that these events happened as “examples” to his generation, “on whom the end of the ages has come” (1 Corinthians 10:11).
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Most futurists use Acts 1:11 to show that Jesus will return in His physical body because that would be necessary in order to fulfill “just in the same way” He went away. The problem is that this Greek phrase is translated differently in other parts of the NT.
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Katy Tur opened the discussion with the MS NOW panel by speculating on whether Speaker Johnson was “putting God over” the Declaration and, by extension, over our government. The simple answer is “yes.”
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The rejection of the sovereign God of the Bible leads to a downward spiral that begins with perverse thinking and degenerates into corrupt action. What was originally designed to be straight, man has made crooked by suppressing the truth in unrighteousness (Deut. 32:5; Psalm 125:5; Prov. 2:15; 3:32; 14:2; 17:20; 21:8; Phil. 2:15).
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Dispensationalists always have a prophetic ace up their sleeves; it’s called “double fulfillment.” But there’s always someone with a “triple fulfillment” card. Dealing off the bottom of the deck is also popular.
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A belief in the inevitability of certain prophetic events, the belief that we are the terminal generation, can lead to a spirit of malaise, indifference, and despair.
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Gary responds to an article titled “Major Signs That the End of Life as We Know It is Near.” Not surprisingly, the article uses biblical language to prove what it claims, and yet ignores both the context and the time frame of the original writing of the New Testament documents.
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If Christians remain faithful in influencing their world with the gospel and applying a Christian worldview to every area of life, the world can and will change.
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Gary interviews his longtime friend, Kirk Cameron, about how he came to embrace a new view of Christianity and the world. Kirk explains how he met Marshall Foster, how he came in contact with Gary DeMar, and what he is doing now.
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Most Bible commentators make Esther stand alone, without any connection to the rest of the Bible. Gary, Bob, and Dan point out how seamlessly it describes the fulfillment of Gog and Magog and how the Messianic bloodline is kept intact, despite Haman's futile attempts to eradicate it.
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To the surprise of the “evil slave,” the master returned when he least expected him (24:50). The master did not return to cut the evil slave’s distant relatives into pieces (24:51); the master cut him in pieces. The evil slave was alive when the master left and when the master returned.
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