In recent weeks, I conducted a three part series on eschatology, sometimes focusing on lesser emphasized truths among our people. Topics we briefly considered included: views of the millennium, the loosing of Satan, Gog and Magog, the Man of Sin, the Mystery of Iniquity, the Day of the Lord, the resurrection, the destruction of the…
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Eschatology Affects Our Perspective
Believe it or not, but a person’s eschatology affects their political views. If you are amillennial, you recognize that the “Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,” so the affairs of your particular nation take a rightful backseat, since you belong to a greater kingdom, have a certain reigning King, and you are concerned with the…
Sylvester Hassell On The 1000 Year Reign
The following is from History Of The Church Of God, From The Creation To A.D. 1885, by Cushing Biggs and Sylvester Hassell, pages 258-261. Hassell presents three historic viewpoints of the 1000 year reign, as mentioned only in Revelation chapter 20. Primitive Baptists, as with most predestinarians and historic theologians, are basically a-millennialists. This writing examines…