Tuesday
Jul302013
The Expanded Edition of "A Case for Amillennialism" Is Here . . . Amazon's Got `em!
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 03:34PM 
This has been the summer for book news!
I'm thrilled to announce that the revised edition of my A Case for Amillennialism is about to hit the bookstores (I've already received my copies).
The expanded edition includes:
* A "Foreword" from Mike Horton
* A Preface to the Expanded Edition
* Two new chapters:
"The Antichrist" and "Signs of the End"
* Eschatology charts
* Scripture and Subject indices
You can order it here:
Paperback edition (from Amazon):
Kindle Edition (from Amazon):
Reader Comments (17)
Did you add a section on William Tapley, Co-Prophet of the End Times; 3rd Eagle of the Apocalypse, in there?
:)
Robin
Have you read Sam Storm's "Kingdom Come"? What are your thoughts?
Dr. Phil needs to write a book on Tapley--after watching his Denver Airport video, its pretty clear that Tapley has deeper problems than I can deal with.
Nate:
I'm reading it now and preparing a review for Modern Reformation.
One would be better off reading something published by authors such as the moderator of this blog or Greg Beale in order to gain a good amillennial understanding of this eschatology. For a more detailed critique of Hank's work, search this blog site.
I was basically shown the door of a Calvary Chapel church several years ago, because i do now believe in a pre-trib rapture of the church. the Pastor was very mad at me and was red in the face when he found out. He came up to me in front of people in the church and got in my face. So i told him if i can,t disagree with him on that then don,t expect me to come back. I told him i thought that Hank was right , and he went on and on about Hank never being part of Calvary Chapel.
Oh well life goes on. Been in a desert for years now.
You mention that you were kicked out of a Calvary Chapel congregation because you now believe in a "pre-tribulation rapture" of the Church. Please explain how this view is compatible with what Hank wrote (or with what other amillennial commentators have to say), which is that the "rapture" is meant to be understood in figurative terms - the Church going out to meet the Savior when he returns. Or their view that the "tribulation" simply means a time of worsening persecution of the Church, not a period that a special group of believers will escape.
I believe that the Lord Jesus will return at the Last Day, just as He said He would in the book of John. So that is why i hold to a view taught by Hank H. and i think would be something like held by Kim R.
I get that dilemma, so I tried to make sure the "expanded edition" had enough new material to justify a purchase. I hate it when publishers do this and all you get is a new forward, new cover art, and corrected typos.
PRETRIB RAPTURE STEALTH !
Many evangelicals believe that Christ will "rapture" them to heaven years before the second coming and (most importantly) well BEFORE Antichrist and his "tribulation." But Acts 2:34, 35 reveal that Jesus is at the Father's right hand in heaven until He leaves to destroy His earthly foes at the second coming. And Acts 3:21 says that Jesus “must” stay in heaven with the Father "until the times of restitution of all things” which includes, says Scofield, “the restoration of the theocracy under David’s Son” which obviously can’t begin before or during Antichrist’s reign. ("The Rapture Question," by the long time No. 1 pretrib authority John Walvoord, didn't dare to even list, in its scripture index, the above verses! They were also too hot for John Darby - the so-called "father of dispensationalism" - to list in the scripture index in his "Letters"!)
Paul explains the “times and the seasons” (I Thess. 5:1) of the catching up (I Thess. 4:17) as the “day of the Lord” (5:2) which FOLLOWS the posttrib sun/moon darkening (Matt. 24:29; Acts 2:20) WHEN “sudden destruction” (5:3) of the wicked occurs! The "rest" for "all them that believe" is also tied to such destruction in II Thess. 1:6-10! (If the wicked are destroyed before or during the trib, who'd be left alive to serve the Antichrist?) Paul also ties the change-into-immortality “rapture” (I Cor. 15:52) to the end of trib “death” (15:54). (Will death be ended before or during the trib? Of course not! And vs. 54 is also tied to Isa. 25:8 which Scofield views as Israel's posttrib resurrection!) It's amazing that the Olivet Discourse contains the "great commission" for the church but not even a hint of a pretrib rapture for the church!
Many don't know that before 1830 all Christians had always viewed I Thess. 4’s “catching up” as an integral part of the final second coming to earth. In 1830 this "rapture" was stretched forward and turned into an idolized separate coming of Christ. To further strengthen their novel view, which evangelical scholars overwhelmingly rejected throughout the 1800s, pretrib teachers in the early 1900s began to stretch forward the “day of the Lord” (what Darby and Scofield never dared to do) and hook it up with their already-stretched-forward “rapture.” Many leading evangelical scholars still weren’t convinced of pretrib, so pretrib teachers then began teaching that the “falling away” of II Thess. 2:3 is really a pretrib rapture (the same as saying that the “rapture” in 2:3 must happen before the “rapture” ["gathering"] in 2:1 can happen – the height of desperation!). Google "Walvoord Melts Ice" for more on this.
Other Google articles on the 183-year-old pretrib rapture view include “X-Raying Margaret,” "Margaret Macdonald's Rapture Chart," "Pretrib Rapture's Missing Lines," "Edward Irving is Unnerving," "The Unoriginal John Darby," "Catholics Did NOT Invent the Rapture," "The Real Manuel Lacunza," “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” “Wily Jeffrey,” “The Rapture Index (Mad Theology),” “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers,” “Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism,” “Scholars Weigh My Research,” “Pretrib Hypocrisy,” "Appendix F: Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Pretrib Rapture Secrecy," “Deceiving and Being Deceived,” "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty," "Famous Rapture Watchers," and "Morgan Edwards' Rapture View" – most by the author of the bestselling book “The Rapture Plot” (the most accurate and documented book on pretrib rapture history which is obtainable by calling 800.643.4645).