Malachi, John the Baptizer and the Passing of Torah Don K. Preston D. Div. According to Jesus, John the Baptizer was the messenger foretold in Malachi 3:1: “This is he of whom it was written, Behold I send my messenger before your face…” (Matthew 11:10).This critical and undeniable fact has incredible implications for modern theologies and eschatologies. As the messenger…
BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER BEFORE YOUR FACE, HE WILL PREPARE THE WAY FOR YOU A brief look at the Eschatological Significance of John the Baptizer Don K. Preston D. Div. Other than Jesus and Paul, John the Baptizer is the most significant, (yet the most ignored) eschatological figure in the NT. I am in the process of writing a…
“He Shall Destroy This Temple Made With Hands, and Build Another Not Made With Hands” Mark 14:58 Don K. Preston D. Div. As Jesus stood on trial, he was accused of many things. Some of the accusations were true, some were not. One of the true accusations is found above, and has profound implications for theology and eschatology today. We…
Elijah Has Come! Don k. Preston D. Div. In Malachi 4:5-6, Jehovah said that He would send Elijah before the coming of the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord. When Elijah came, he was to “restore all things,” more specifically, he was to “turn the hearts of the fathers to the children.” His task was that of moral restoration.…
Isaiah 60 and the Kingdom Priesthood Foreigners As Priests In The Kingdom Temple! Don K. Preston D. Div. We are constantly assailed with claims that we are very, very close to the time when the Jerusalem Temple will be rebuilt. “The signs are everywhere!”…or so we are told. Books, many books, have been written proclaiming that the Jews in Jerusalem…
The Abomination of Desolation Don K. Preston D. DivThe Abomination of Desolation is one of the most feared– yet, paradoxically– anticipated prophetic events! It is feared because its appearance is part of the projected Great Tribulation period. It is anticipated because, while a horrible event, it is posited by Jesus as one of the definitive signs of the end of…
A Restored Temple and the Sound of the Harp Don K. Preston We hear a great deal about the imminent rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple. It is insisted that the time is right for the restoration of that magnificent edifice, and that with its reconstruction, the millennium will be at hand. There is so much theologically misguided about this…
Jesus’ Radical, Revolutionary Claims:I Am The Good Shepherd! Don K. Preston In our modern societies, so far removed from the cultural, historical, theological matrix of the world of Jesus, i.e. the Hebraic world, it is very easy to overlook the power and challenge of much of what Jesus said. We have a tendency to think of Jesus as this soft…
A Serious Problem for the Rapture Doctrine Don K. Preston Daniel 2 and 7 are passages that predicted the establishment of the Messianic kingdom. This is almost universally acknowledged. Daniel 7 and chapter 2 are virtually parallel in their predictions of the establishment of the kingdom in the days of the Roman empire, the fourth beast. In Daniel 7,…
I AM THE VINE: JESUS AND THE LAND PROMISES Don K. Preston In John 15 Jesus said “I am the vine, you are the branches.” This statement is a favorite among preachers, because it is used to promote evangelism. After all, Jesus said if one does not bear fruit (i.e. interpreted as converting others) they are taken away and…