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	<itunes:summary>...various topics such as presuppositional apologetics, Christian worldview, philosophy, christianity and science, epistemology, eschatology, history, reformed theology, hermeneutics, and preterism, as well as exegetical series from various places in the Bible.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>The Flood Chiasm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 21:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Bradfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the year, the elders at my church began a series in Genesis. This past Sunday we finished verses 1-8 of chapter 6 and are now heading into the flood story. I don&#8217;t remember why it came up, but as i was discussing this chapter with some brothers Sunday afternoon, i had mentioned that there is a large chiasm in the flood story. I thought i would take a moment in highlighting this chiasm for them and anyone else interested. Some of you may be thinking, &#8220;ok..cool. But what exactly is a chiasm?&#8221; Glad you asked. ( : According to my trusty Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek, a chiasm is defined as follows: n. A literary device in which words, clauses or themes are laid out and then repeated but in inverted order. This creates an a-b-b-a pattern, or a &#8220;crossing&#8221; effect like the letter &#8220;X&#8221; (χιασμος, &#8220;a making of the letter χ&#8221;). Also called inverted parallelism. [p.29] Some theologians, like James Jordan, would contend with that last sentence by arguing that a &#8220;Chiasm differs from &#8216;inverted parallelism&#8217; by having a central pivot-point that in some way is the most important aspect of the structure. Inverted parallelism, consisting of ABBA, may not have such a central point (unless BB is also a pivot or the more important aspect of the overall section).&#8221; [1] Regardless of how one should classify an inverted parallelism, both definitions would fit with what i believe we find in the flood story. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Common Ground at the Areopagus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Bradfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When defending presuppositional apologetics, someone almost always appeals to Acts 17 to argue that Paul would not have started with the Bible when addressing pagans who did not accept the testimony of Scripture. &#8220;You have to work them up to that&#8221;, so they argue. One individual (he whom we shall not name) even went so far as to make such an argument from Acts 17 under the label of &#8220;Historic Presuppositionalism&#8221;. He claimed that &#8220;Scripture is for the initiate.&#8221; He not only fails to understand Presuppositionalism, but fails to understand just what exactly Paul was doing at the Areopagus. I have entertained the thought of writing a response off and on over the years, but usually get caught up in something else and forget about it. Well, today i stumbled upon a great video from Voddie Baucham who does an excellent job of addressing whether or not Paul was trying to &#8220;adapt&#8221; to the Athenian culture. I don&#8217;t think there is much else i can add to this, so i&#8217;ll leave it at this:]]></description>
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		<title>John 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Sharon Nichols, a former Hyper Preterist, brought up the issue of the &#8220;Great Commission&#8221;.  &#8220;Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them inthe name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.&#8221;  Supposedly, in the Hyper Preterist world, this ended in AD 70.  By that time, &#8220;all nations&#8221; were &#8220;discipled&#8221; and were &#8220;taught&#8221; by the Apostles.  Go figure.  But, that&#8217;s what we are to suppose, using &#8220;audience relevance&#8221; of course.  Far be it from this statement to be a rooted in the Prophets that foresaw a massive expansion of Christianity beyond anything that resembled even Solomon&#8217;s days&#8230;.after all, one &#8220;greater than Solomon&#8221; was present, bodily. But, we will go with this supposition and allow that &#8220;end of the age&#8221; here is the &#8220;terminus&#8221; for the Great Commission.  We have to keep in mind that this ended in AD 70, and supposedly &#8220;baptism&#8221;, too.  Since a large number of Hyper Preterists no longer believe in the &#8220;sacraments&#8221; of Baptism or the Lord&#8217;s Table (!), a question concerning evangelism and disciple making naturally arises: why do they still preach, post AD 70? A typical anwer given to this is that the Prophets foretold of it.  Ah&#8230;now the Prophets kick in. Jesus Mission&#8212;&#8211;&#62;preach the Gospel to all nations&#8212;&#8212;&#62;Baptize all nations&#8212;&#8211;&#62;Disciple all nations&#8212;&#8212;-&#62;AD 70 (end of the age). Then, add &#8220;healing of the nations&#8221; ...]]></description>
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		<title>Feature Article by Todd Dennis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is written in opposition to the proposition of certain Futurist and Preterist theologians that Paul had one of Jerusalem&#8217;s temples in mind while penning Hebrews 9. In Hebrews 9, Paul is not writing about the necessity for Herod&#8217;s Temple to be destroyed by Roman armies. Nor is Paul claiming that the final day will not come until the temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem at some distant time. Paul is not claiming that Herod&#8217;s Temple stands in the way of the full establishment of the New Covenant. Nor is he teaching that a future temple must be removed to pave the way for the full establishment of the New Covenant for Israel. Ward Fenley is one representative within the hyper preterist community of the mistaken usage of the figure in Hebrews 9 in contention that the new covenant blessings would not come until Herod&#8217;s temple was destroyed in AD70: &#8220;Some would say that the Old Covenant was completely done away at the cross, but the writer of Hebrews teaches that this was a process about to be completed at the destruction of the Temple in AD 70.. The writer is referring to none other than the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by God through the Roman armies:  Hebrews 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all is not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle is still standing:&#8221; Do We Look For Another // &#8220;The sheer fact that they could not ...]]></description>
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		<title>Acts 24:15 &amp; the Alleged Nearness of the Resurrection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The supposed evidence for hyperpreterism lies in the phrase “there shall certainly be a resurrection.” Here the Greek words behind “there shall certainly be” is mellein esesthai. Since the base word mello can mean “about to,” this statement is thought to demonstrate that Paul stated that the resurrection is “about to” happen. This is a misreading of Paul. Consider the following: &#8230;Continue this article by Kenneth Gentry Regarding Paul&#8217;s &#8221;clever maneuver&#8230;to divide his opponents against themselves&#8221;, please see Jason&#8217;s Paul the Deceitful?]]></description>
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		<title>The Mark of the Beast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Bradfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing deep. Just some quick thoughts i had this week inspired by Gary DeMar&#8217;s God and Government series. My departure from hyper preterism has renewed my interest in postmillennial and theonomist writings, so lately i have been digging out some old books that i had buried in my shed. I started re-reading DeMar&#8217;s three volume set in January and finished it last week. I highly recommend the series, especially for homeschoolers! One of the points that Gary made over and over again is that he who determines the law is god. Of course, there is but one God and He has revealed His law to us. Yet, when we reject this law and create our own, we have in essence replaced Yahweh with a &#8220;god&#8221; of our own making. This was the sin in Eden. The serpent raised doubts concerning Yahweh&#8217;s Law and encouraged Eve to be a law unto herself, so that she would &#8220;be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Ge 3:5) This cosmic reversal gradually finds its ultimate expression in a divine and messianic state; a state that seeks to control and govern every aspect of our lives according to its self-proclaimed authority. And as Del Tackett has mentioned in the &#8220;State&#8221; portion of his Truth Project series, this sphere of government has the potential of becoming the most dangerous because it &#8220;bears the sword.&#8221; With all of this on my mind, i was listening to my new Word of Promise audio bible and the nature of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Expositor&#8217;s Hour #4: Eph 1.8-10</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam and Phil continue their examination of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Today’s emphasis ~ Jesus Christ: The Mystery Revealed. &#8230;which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. (Ephesians 1:8-10 ESV)]]></description>
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	<itunes:subtitle>Sam and Phil continue their examination of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Today’s emphasis ~ Jesus Christ: The Mystery Revealed. - ...which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Sam and Phil continue their examination of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Today’s emphasis ~ Jesus Christ: The Mystery Revealed.

...which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. (Ephesians 1:8-10 ESV)</itunes:summary>
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		<title>The Expositor&#8217;s Hour #3: Eph 1.7-8</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam and Phil continue their examination of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Today&#8217;s emphasis: Forgiveness. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight… (Ephesians 1:7-8 ESV)]]></description>
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	<itunes:subtitle>Sam and Phil continue their examination of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Today&#039;s emphasis: Forgiveness. - In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us,</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Sam and Phil continue their examination of the Epistle to the Ephesians. Today&#039;s emphasis: Forgiveness.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight… (Ephesians 1:7-8 ESV)</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Acts 3.19-21</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, 20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, 21 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago (ESV). reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and He may send Jesus Christ who before hath been preached to you, 21 whom it behoveth heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age (Young&#8217;s Literal). 19 μετανοήσατε οὖν καὶ ἐπιστρέψατε εἰς τὸ ἐξαλειφθῆναι ὑμῶν τὰς ἁμαρτίας, 20 ὅπως ἂν ἔλθωσι καιροὶ ἀναψύξεως ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ ἀποστείλῃ τὸν προκεχειρισμένον ὑμῖν Χριστόν Ἰησοῦν, 21 ὃν δεῖ οὐρανὸν μὲν δέξασθαι ἄχρι χρόνων ἀποκαταστάσεως πάντων ὧν ἐλάλησεν ὁ Θεὸς διὰ στόματος πάντων ἁγίων αὐτοῦ προφητῶν ἀπ&#8217; αἰῶνος. &#8220;repent, therefore, and turn back, in order for your sins to be blotted out, so that times (plural) of refreshing from the face (Presence) of the Lord may come, and he may (subjunctive) send the one having been appointed for you (see NIV), whom it is necessary that heaven indeed receive (that he remains in heaven) as far as times (plural) of restoration of all things ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Expositor&#8217;s Hour #1: Eph 1.1-7</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Naessens and Sam have begun a new podcast series entitled The Expositors Hour. In this first episode, they begin a verse by verse commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians, covering the first seven verses. You can visit the official podcast listing HERE. Enjoy!]]></description>
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	<itunes:subtitle>Phil Naessens and Sam have begun a new podcast series entitled The Expositors Hour. In this first episode, they begin a verse by verse commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians, covering the first seven verses. - </itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Phil Naessens and Sam have begun a new podcast series entitled The Expositors Hour. In this first episode, they begin a verse by verse commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians, covering the first seven verses.

You can visit the official podcast listing HERE. Enjoy!</itunes:summary>
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		<title>First John 4.2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Gates of Preterist Blog has written a tremendous article.  He alerted me to a verse that I never caught before.  I have not noticed this until today.  Let me state a little background.  While a Full Preterist, I denied that Jesus retained his incarnate body.  That is, the man, Christ Jesus, who ascended into heaven, somehow &#8220;shed&#8221; his incarnate body and was absorbed again into the Godhead.  The reasoning was obvious since I held to a &#8220;corporate body view&#8221; of resurrection.  If Jesus retained (and still retains) the body of his incarnation, now glorified in heaven where it remains, the problems for my Full Preterism this would cause were unthinkable. Since I have left Full Preterism, I have engaged in a study of the Incarnation and its relationship to the &#8220;human nature&#8221; of Christ.  &#8220;Human nature&#8221; is defined as that union that comes from body and soul.  This is the way it was applied in the trinitarian formulations over against the Gnostics and the Doceticists.  Jesus&#8217; &#8220;body of glory&#8221; (Phil 3.21) is his current glorified body of his incarnation.  This is the definition of &#8220;glorification.&#8221; Paul Gates has found I John 4.2,3 which reads, &#8220;Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God.&#8221;  Now it may be argued that the Full Preterist does not deny that Jesus ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Daniel 12.2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[String together Calvin, cite Beale and Carson, throw in a little Hodge and Clarke, add some Lightfoot and oila, you get Full Preterism when you put it all together, right?  Ever hear that argument before?  It was one of my favorites.  Ed Stevens and I hashed about the idea of stringing together hundreds of quotes from scholars, past and present, and the Fathers to show that every view of Full Preterism could be shown by such a presentation.  Sure, no one of them taught Full Preterism, but put them all together, and you get justification for Full Preterism.  Here was the point: Full Preterism was not invented by us, we are just the first ones to put it all together.  Hence, the frequent &#8220;cut and paste&#8221; jobs.  The frequent &#8220;here&#8217;s a quote from Scholar X and Dictionary Y&#8221; &#8211; see, we Full Preterists aren&#8217;t heretics.  On the gullible, such as myself, this was a powerful argument and demonstration. What does it prove, though, when looked at from former Full Preterist eyes (which I now own)?  Nothing.  It proves that you can string together a bunch of quotes into a presupposed box.  It shows that orthodox eschatology is not quite in agreement on the details of what they all are in agreement with in the essentials.  It shows that where one scholar may say, AD 70, another says, End of the World.  Where one scholar has Dan 12.2 at the end of the world, another one has it in Paul&#8217;s generation.  But, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Refreshing Look at First Corinthians 15</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Max King was, without a doubt, my first real foray into the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. Up to that time in Bible College, and, just growing up in the Church, I &#8220;heard&#8221; the usual, traditional doctrine of resurrection of bodies at the end of the world. &#8220;Glorified bodies&#8221; and the like. The discussion would usually turn to &#8220;when&#8221; rather than &#8220;how&#8221;. In my Postmillennial days leading up to King, the doctrine was not talked about a great deal. It was assumed. In Postmillennialism, a great deal of time was spent on showing how AD 70 was the &#8220;great tribulation&#8221;. Well, needless to say, when I read King and began a relationship with him and his son, Tim, there were some things pointed out to me that just didn&#8217;t sit right with where my mind was at the time: 1. Consistency. 2. Resurrection is connected with AD 70. &#8220;Yeah, right, how do they separate resurrection from the &#8220;time of the end&#8221;?&#8221; Isn&#8217;t that inconsistent? And off I went. Stayed there for about 19 years. Even wrote a book on it, Exegetical Essays on the Resurrection of the Dead, now published by Don Preston. While pastoring, we developed a CD set on I Corinthians 15. That sold really well. When one comes out of a view that they had tenaciously defended, it causes a psychological headspin. That I would ever defend the orthodox view of resurrection was an impossibilty. I thought King had utterly demolished it. Well, he did ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Look at First Thessalonians 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, since we have done I Corinthians 15, in spite of the fact that some of my critics continue to insist that I have provided no exegesis since I have left Full Preterism, let&#8217;s move on to consider  I Thessalonians 4.  It shoudn&#8217;t be that hard. Here&#8217;s the English Standard: But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord,1 that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words. Here is Young&#8217;s Literal: And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Again at Revelation 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will use five works in this post: Milton Terry (Biblical Apocalyptics); David E. Aune (Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 52c, Revelation 17-22); David Chilton (Days of Vengeance); G. K. Beale (NIGTC The Book of Revelation) and J. S. Russell (The Parousia). That Russell shuffles around Rev 20 is to be noted.  For exampe, vv. 1-3 as within the time of the fall of Judaism.  Vv.4-6 fall within the time of reigning with Christ now.  Vv.7-10 is at the virtual end of time and history as we know it (Russell was not a Full Preterist).  Finally, vv.11-15 is the judgment solely of the wicked upon at the fall of Judaism. There is nothing entirely inconsistent with Russell&#8217;s approach.  It is a notorious debate in commentaries as to what &#8220;And I saw&#8221; constitutes in terms of sequence and chronology.  It could represent a new vision, or it could be sequential with the previous vision.  In Rev 20 alone &#8220;and I saw&#8221; occurs 5 times.  Theoretically, then, there could be five divisions here which may or may not follow a sequential or chronological order (Beale, in dealing with the phrase, concurs that it does not automatically mean &#8220;historical order&#8221; &#8211; 317).  The Book is divided into three &#8220;times&#8221; if you will: &#8220;what you have seen, what is, and what must be after these things&#8221; (1.19).  John, at the time of writing to the Churches this vision has already seen the vision.  He is recounting in chapter 1 what had happned to him, where he ...]]></description>
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		<title>Our House in Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 22:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Witherington III has a well deserved career in the academic world.  He has produced several commentaries in the Socio-Rhetorical Commentary series of his and they are masterpieces.  In one particularly celebrated book, Jesus, Paul and the End of the World (IVP, 1992) Ben interacts with a series of NT texts dealing with eschatology proper. In particular his analysis of the text of II Co 5.1-10 (203-215) is fairly thorough, quoting from the major works on this epistle (R.P. Martin, V. P. Furnish, Moule, and, of course, C. K. Barrett).  There is a fair consensus here that Paul is dealing with the intermediate state: what happens to the Christian when he dies before the finality of the restoration of all of creation?  This is a question that has occupied a good deal of discussion in the historic community as well as the present.  Wright tackles it in Surprised by Hope (a work I highly recommend). First off, like my article pointed out (&#8220;II Corinthians 3-5&#8243;), Paul &#8220;mixes his metaphors speaking of both buildings and being clothed&#8221; (207).  This is certainly true.  The idea of going to a &#8220;building&#8221; (which most if not all scholars see as a metaphor for the body) or being &#8220;overclothed&#8221; (putting something on something else), I believe, suggest that Paul is alluding to two items that are closely related in terms of meaning.  Hence, there is considerably confusion about the &#8220;mixing&#8221; of metaphors here if both refer to &#8220;body&#8221;. 5.1 reads, &#8220;1 Οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι ἐὰν ...]]></description>
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		<title>Like Us in Every Way?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps one of the most explicit chapters on the humanity of the son of God is Hebrews 2.  There, Jesus is &#8220;made a little lower than the angels&#8221;.  Psalm 8, a psalm of Adam and his creation, is applied to Jesus.  Jesus is &#8220;made perfect&#8221; through suffering, which probably has to do with his being &#8220;fit&#8221; for the role of High Priest &#8211; that is, as Hawthorne has noted, Jesus &#8220;became fully qualified to be the pioneer of man&#8217;s salvation&#8221;.  The family of God are called &#8220;brothers&#8221; (2.11) in that the human solidarity is there and continues to be there.  &#8220;Since the children have flesh and bloo, he too shared in thier humanity&#8230;it is not angels he helps&#8230;he had to be made like his brothers in every way&#8230;that he might make atonement&#8230;&#8221;  He &#8220;tasted death&#8221; which can only refer, as the phrase does, to physical death.  &#8220;Fix your thoughts on Jesus&#8230;&#8221; (3.1).  And so we shall. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.  But, why did he die?  We are told by the Full Preterist that physical death has absolutely nothing to do with sin.  Therefore, the physical death of Jesus had absolutely nothing to do with sin.  But, we are told time and time again about the death of Jesus.  &#8220;He died&#8221;.  Go ahead, get out your concordance.  Look it up. I wrote an article as a Full Preterist a few years ago that wrestled with this problem.  Since I was under the impression that FP was correct, ...]]></description>
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		<title>II Corinthians 3-5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these chapters, Paul is definitely speaking of the change the new covenant regeneration brings to the believers.  Again, I believe that he speaks proleptically, writing as if already living in the age to come (since it was to dawn in his own generation).  The &#8220;powers&#8221; of that age were &#8220;already&#8221; starting their transforming work (Heb 6.5).  The age itself had not yet come, but the powers of that age had already begun the prepratorywork that would come to characterize the &#8220;generations&#8221; (Eph 3.21) and &#8220;ages&#8221; (Eph 2.7) to come.  These coming generations of believers answers the time the Prophets foretold as being dominated by an explosion of the inclusion of &#8220;the nations&#8221;.  These &#8220;nations&#8221; would, over the span of the ages, come to be known as those &#8220;born in Zion&#8221; (Ps 87; Is 19.23-25; 56.3-8, et al).  These passages prophesy a time when the nations will be considered &#8220;Israel&#8221;, &#8220;sons of Abraham&#8221; (Rom 4; Gal 3-4).  They will offer sacrifices and offerings in the Temple of Zion, etc.  This was the &#8220;mystery&#8221; (one of them, anyway) of the Gospel (Eph 3.1-6), the inclusion of the nations. Now, even this was &#8220;already&#8221; at work in Paul&#8217;s time.  The &#8220;power&#8221; of God to start the process of causing the nations to stream to Mount Zion (Is 2.1-ff) had begun.  That is, what would dominate or characterize the age to come, was already working.  Yet, the old covenant remained in force, so the &#8220;dividing wall&#8221; of hostility as represented by the outward ...]]></description>
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		<title>First John 3.2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 16:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Jo 3.2 is a bit of a riddle for Full Preterism.  The ESV has &#8220;Beloved, we are God&#8217;s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.&#8221;  But, there is a footnote.  The NIV has, &#8220;Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, {2 Or when it is made known} we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.&#8221;  The footnote is made known here for both.  The Marshall Interlinear has &#8220;it&#8221; or &#8220;he&#8221;.  Technical commentaries note the translation issue, and this legitimizes the point.  &#8220;It shall appear&#8221; begs the question, &#8220;what&#8221;?  If &#8220;he shall appear&#8221; is accepted, then we know &#8220;what&#8221;. I was intrigued by this when I recently was given a copy of  First John by Gordon H. Clark, who was a master Greek exegete.  His comment on this verse got the ball rolling.  I never stick with one commentary, but read several and work on this text with my own ability to read Greek.  Such freedom allows me to these texts noting all of the issues surrounding them, and not just listening to my pastors or teachers &#8211; including my Full Preterist ones.  Clark&#8217;s comment states, &#8220;No doubt many Christians believe that this passage refers to Christ&#8217;s return.  They translate phanerothe as, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Another Look at the Millennium</title>
		<link>http://thereignofchrist.com/another-look-at-the-millennium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Frost</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psalms]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[end]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[millennium]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is my prayer book. It is the Anglican prayer book (drafted originally by the great Thomas Cranmer, 1548). There is also the Book of Common Order (John Knox, 1556) for Reformed worship that many of those churches still use today. I found out through Dr. K. Talbot that Gordon Clark also used the 1928 prayer book and recently found a reference to it in his commentary on I and II Peter. I absolutely love the Christian calendar and liturgical prayers contained therein, and by the grace of God, found a conservative, 1928 Book of Common Prayer Anglican church here, which I attend every Sunday. The Christian Calendar represents the rearrangement of the Roman calendar we use (January, Febuary, etc.) and, for me, symbolizes the fact that He changed the seasons. Instead of &#8220;December&#8221; it is &#8220;Christmas&#8221; with the four weeks before. January is Epiphany, the appearance of Christ. April prepares us for Lent, leading up to Resurrection and Ascension. Trinity Sundays go through the Summer, and on and on. The whole year is structured around the Gospel story. And what has this to do with the Millennium? Nothing. But, in the &#8220;daily readings&#8221; and &#8220;the Psaltery&#8221;, the Psalms are divided into thirty segments, for each day of the month, so that one reads the Psalms in their entirety every year (along with the whole Bible if one follows the Daily Readings). And, the other day, in my morning devotions, I read Psalm 90: A ...]]></description>
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		<title>Vincent Cheung on Paradox</title>
		<link>http://thereignofchrist.com/vincent-cheung-on-paradox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excerpt from Vincent Cheung&#8217;s Systematic Theology on the absurdity of embracing the idea that the Bible contains apparent contradictions that can not be resolved. Vincent&#8217;s observations are right in line with the observations Jason has pointed out on the Route 66 podcast. ~~~ For any proposition that affirms X, the proposition that contradicts it is one that affirms not-X. This is what a contradiction means. Any proposition that affirms one thing is by necessity also a denial of its opposite. To affirm X is to deny not-X, and to affirm not-X is to deny X. To keep this simple, let us assume that Y = not-X, so that the opposite of X is Y. Thus to affirm X is to deny Y, and to affirm Y is to deny X. Or, X = not-Y, and Y = not-X. Then, since to affirm a proposition is to deny its opposite, to affirm X and Y at the same time is the equivalent of affirming not-Y and not-X. Thus to affirm two contradictory propositions is in reality to deny both. But to affirm both not-Y and not-X is also to affirm X and Y, which again means to deny Y and X. And so the whole operation becomes meaningless. The upshot is that it is impossible to affirm two contradictory propositions at the same time. To affirm the proposition, &#8220;Adam is a man&#8221; (X), is to deny the contradictory proposition, &#8220;Adam is not a man&#8221; (Y, or not-X). ...]]></description>
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		<title>Judged By No One</title>
		<link>http://thereignofchrist.com/judged-by-no-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Bradfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1 Corinthians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can picture Paul standing in a ring with the scrolls lifted up and taunting the audience, "Who here thinks they can defeat these? Bring it on!" Does this sound like an affirmation of "common ground"? Not at all...]]></description>
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