Eschatology Today

Bible Prophecy Study

End-time Review

Spring 2008

Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run.

-Habakkuk 2:2

elcome to Eschatology Today, your online revelation guide into the recorded parables, visions, and dreams that make up the Bible's prophetic texts. Our aim in attracting your readership is not toconvertyou. We want to equipyou "to rightly divide" God's prophetic word for yourself.

That's right. For yourself. Too many within the church today approach the study of Bible prophecy through the eyes of a favorite "expert" instead of a researched observation of what Scripture actually says. Because this is true, many prophecy texts when "studied," go completely "unstudied," as words are sloppily overlooked and unconsciously read into passages to substantiate previously formulated doctrines and beliefs.

Misreading the literal nature of Revelation's prophetic symbolism and misplacing its chronological sequence to fit particular perspectives; reversing to repeat the book's message at chapter 12 (regardless of literal trumpet/bowl differences); attributing its seven church letters to various church ages through which we have never historically passed; and disassociating its coming woes from the supernatural work of God (nuclear war) are all common "expert" views.

            These unsound interpretive ideas have evolved over the years from a common theological perspective that applies the literal rules of biblical interpretation (hermeneutics) to the Gospels and Epistles, but zones out into a nebulous hodge-podge of surreal fantasy when approaching the New Testament's only prophetic book. Eschatology Today refers to those who believe and publish this popular nonliteral perspective as the prophetically correct press. Their published works and TV shows are believed by many Christians just like those who believe the politically correct main stream press,without checking other news sources or purported facts.

                                                   "Behold, I have told you in advance."
                                                                                            -Matthew 24:25

The God who revealed world history "in advance" simply isn't as confused as these teachings permit. Some of the visions and dreams recorded in Scripture are prophetic movies with a parabolic message regarding a person, place, or thing. Others are literal Holy Spirit snapshots given in real time. To understand either requires the presumption of God's literal intent.

So Eschatology Today proposes to make you an interpretive expert in the study disciplines of hermeneutics (the art and science of literal biblical interpretation) and pneumatology (study of the Holy Spirit) to give you the tools you need to interpret God's divine prophetic stream. Click on to our fundamental study article,"Interpreting the Rules of Revelation," to get started.

Literal intent, chronological ascent, key words, and key events, are our clarion calls for discovering the Bible's prophetic truths. Those who won't challenge the principles or commit to study Scripture will always be at the mercy of the "mainstream prophetic press," parroting whatever they broadcast or write without analyzing the facts. Many of their sites are posted on Eschatology Today to give you their research and point of view. Much of what they write is good. Just don't forget to put their teachings to Eschatology Today's hermeneutic test.

And of course, we keep our readers regularly informed on major world events that may relate to key eschatological texts. Piecing together the who, what, when, where, and why's of Bible prophecy fulfillment is like putting the pieces of a puzzle together while looking through a dark glass. But the pieces are on the board, and the picture is forming a view. So we keep our readers regularly informed on major world events.

So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead. Click around, and start becoming your own eschatologian today!

May 2008

Today's Temps

May 11, 2008

Zechariah 12:3, 9-11
3          "And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.
9          "And it will come about in that day that I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10        "And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a first-born.
11        "In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

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Matthew 24:4-8
4          And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you.
5          "For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.
6          "And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.
7          "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.
8          "But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.