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In case anyone’s interested, I’ve reviewed A Case for Historic Premillennialism: An Alternative to “Left Behind” Eschatology (edited by Craig L. Blomberg and Sung Wook Chung) for the latest issue of Themelios. You can read the review here. Here’s my concluding analysis for the review: Although CHP addresses many important issues relating to nondispensational premillennialism and does an [...] Today I heard about Melinda Rankin for the first time. An amazing woman! Melinda was a single Presbyterian missionary in northern Mexico in the mid-ninteenth century who started a school in Monterrey. Her little autobiography, Twenty Years Among the Mexicans, ends with these excellent words: Satan may yet make attempts to maintain his throne in Mexico, but [...] In addition to Dever’s and Schreiner’s recent comments, Craig Blomberg also has some good comments on the non-essential nature of eschatological beliefs such as the millennium and the timing of the rapture. In A Case for Historic Premillennialism Blomberg says: “In my ideal world, there would be no church or parachurch organization, including seminaries, that would make [...] So said Mark Dever in his sermon yesterday on Revelation 20. He was referring specifically to the issue of the Millennium, but his comments obviously apply to lesser issues (like the timing of the rapture). (And obviously his comments don’t apply to fundamental doctrines like the second coming and final judgment.) Here’s what he said: “I think that [...] On Saturday I was privileged to preach the graduation ceremony at the college where I teach. I preached from 1 Corinthians 7:29-31: This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, 30 and those who mourn as though they [...] |
 
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