What Land Entrance Teaches Us

I’ve recently become increasingly interested in the typology of the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness under Moses, and how the historical shadows are reflected in the New Testament as the “substance” of our faith and practice. Since I am not an Idealist, I do believe that historical types can, and often do, have…

Who Are The “Holy People” Of Daniel 12: 7?

  In the present endtime controversy, there are a large number of views regarding the “Great Tribulation.”  Daniel 12 seems to be a key pivot on which much of the debate (at least insofar as the Old Testament ties in with Matthew 24) seems to turn.  In Daniel 12: 7, Daniel heard the man clothed in…

The Coming Dispensation Of Judgment

  In his paper entitled “The Different Ages and Dispensations of God’s Dealings With Men,” Dr. E.W. Bullinger draws a rough outline of the history of God’s administrations. Bullinger states that when the present dispensation of grace ends, the “epoch of judgment” will begin.  This period will comprise the time covered by the Apocalyptic seals, trumpets, and vials.  It will start when…

The Orange Mailman- Daniel’s Seventieth Week Is Yet Future

Daniel’s Seventieth Week Is Yet Future My series which dealt with Preterism focused mainly on the Olivet Discourse. There are events that we must concede were fulfilled in A.D. 70 if we are to be fair about the whole debate. But there are other events which simply have not been fulfilled in the way that the…

Essays On Chiliasm (Part 11)

   Naturally, the rise of Antichrist will precipitate a state of things that results in hostility to the people of God.  We’ve already seen how wars and devastations must continue until the world is divided into ten nations. Lactantius, alluding to these times, writes: “First, the kingdom will be enlarged, and the chief power, dispersed…