PAUL’S PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES Be sure to read the previous installments in this series. #1 #2 #3 #4 Before proceeding with this fifth installment, I want to share a bit more of the blatant dishonesty and duplicity within the IO camp. This is more than disturbing to anyone that believes in basic integrity. But, what…
Category: Responding to the Critics
The Fullness of the Gentiles – Numeric or Relational – A Response to Israel Only #3
The Fullness of the Gentiles– Numeric or Relational – A Response to Israel Only #3 I want to take note that there still has not been a single serious attempt to prove, lexically, contextually, or by sound hermeneutic to refute my first two installments. There have been tons of diversionary arguments, lots and lots of ridicule and name calling, many,…
The Fullness of the Gentiles – Numeric or Relational? #2 – A Response to Israel Only
The Fullness of the Gentiles– Numeric or Relational – A Response to “Israel Only” #2 Since posting the first installment in this series, the response to it on FaceBook has been more than revealing. Those who espouse the IO doctrine have done of a few things: 1. They have cited commentaries that posit the numeric sense of pleroma. This is…
The Fulness of the Gentiles – A Response to Israel Only – #1
The Fullness of the Gentiles – Numeric or Relational – #1 A Response to “Israel Only” An absolutely fundamental tenet of what is known as the IO (Israel Only) crowd (mob might be a better description) is that when Paul said that at the coming of the Lord “the fulness of the Gentiles would come in” he supposedly meant…
Responding to the Critics: Kenneth Gentry’s “I am not a Preterist!”
Responding to the Critics: Kenneth Gentry’s I am Not a Preterist!” Dr. Kenneth Gentry recently felt compelled to publish and article entitled “I am Not A Preterist!” The article was both an affirmation that he IS a preterist, but that he is NOT a preterist! Let me explain. For years, Gentry, DeMar, Mathison, etc. have all proclaimed themselves to…
The Great Day of God’s Wrath and the End of the Millennium #2
The Great Day of God’s Wrath and the End of the Millennium – #2 Revelation 6, Revelation 11 and Daniel 12 In this second installment of our examination of the Great Day of the God’s Wrath we want to turn our attention to other passages in Revelation that discuss, define and describe that Day. We began our study of…
The Great Day of God’s Wrath and the End of the Millennium #1
The Great Day of God’s Wrath and the End of the Millennium The Millennium is a study of not only fascination but of importance for understanding eschatology. All three futurist views of the end times either claim that the Christian age is the Millennium (Amillennialism and Postmillennialism) or, the Millennium will be established at the Second Coming of Christ, at…
Responding to the Critics: Answering Wayne Jackson on the Time Statements
Responding to the Critics: What is the Meaning of “Shortly Come To Pass” In Revelation 1:1? A Response to Wayne Jackson We often respond to the critics of Covenant Eschatology. A friend recently asked if I had ever written anything in response to Wayne Jackson. In doing a search of our site, I realized that when we had a…
The Destruction of Creation and the End of the Millennium – #5
Destruction of Creation and the End of the Millennium- #5; Matthew 24, The Coming of the Son of Man and the Millennium Let me give here the last paragraph from our last installment in this series: Creation is destroyed at the end of the Millennium. That means that Matthew 24:29f, Revelation 6, (Revelation 11), Revelation 16 describe the Lord’s coming…
Was There a Physical Rapture in AD 70 – A Formal Written Debate
Introductory Remarks: Ed Stevens, President of International Preterist Association, and the lead proponent of the idea that there was a literal, physical rapture in AD 70, and I have agreed to engage in a formal written debate on that issue. Per our agreements, I will lead off in the affirmative, Each man will have four presentations in both affirmative and…
