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The Sabbath: From 1 in 7 to 1 Forever

By On September 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Ecclesiology (Church Stuff), Eschatology, Resurrection, Sabbath, Theology

Christians begin the week with the joyous celebration of Christ’s resurrection. This resurrection vindicated Jesus’s labors throughout his life and grants to us our justification. This justification is not something we work for. The original Sabbath was on the last day of the week and a rest after our labors. True Sabbath, however, could only [...]

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John Stott on “Six Stages of Christ’s Victory Over Satan”

By On August 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Christology, Eschatology, Kingdom of God, Theology

HT: Jonathan Parnnell (link posted at end of quote). A lot of folks debate about Christ’s victory over Satan within eschatology and I always tell folks that it’s not the “either-or” proposition that many want it to be. Christ’s victory is progressive and nuanced. It didn’t ALL happen at the cross, nor [...]

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Dr. Robert Rayburn Appeals to Recapitulation Theme in Favor of Premillennialism

By On July 18, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Eschatology, Theology

Dr. and Rev. Robert Rayburn from Faith Presybterian (PCA) in Tacoma, WA contends that he is mainly a premillennialist because he believes that the church recapitulates the life of Jesus with regards to the resurrection and interim period of 40 days on the earth before the ascension. The people of God [...]

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The Millennium

By On July 11, 2010 · 12 Comments · In Eschatology

“Perhaps no doctrine has more divided modern evangelical Protestantism than that of the millennium” –Donald Bloesch, The Last Things, 87

            What is it about eschatology (the study of the last things) that either gets people wound up or turns them off? I would place myself more in the latter category. It’s not that I [...]

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