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As documented in this book, the most persistent challenge by skeptics hostile to the Bible and Christianity is that Jesus did not return when He promised—within the lifetimes of his followers. Indeed, there are over 100 passages in the New Testament clearly declaring (1) that the writers of the New Testament themselves were in the "last days," and (2) that Jesus would return while some of his disciples were still alive, in fulfillment of all that had been prophesied.
Were Jesus and the New Testament writers wrong? If Jesus and the writers of the New Testament were wrong, they could not have been inspired, and Jesus Himself was a false prophet. This critical problem must be addressed by the church.
Could the "last days" be referring to the final days of the Old Covenant order rather than to the end of the physical universe? Was the "time of the end" when Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed in AD 70—the date when the ancient covenantal system of temple sacrifices for sin ended forever? Could many modern Christians have misunderstood what Jesus meant by his Parousia (his "Second Coming") —that it was to be a divine, but non-visible "coming in judgment" against the Jews in AD 70—similar to God's coming in judgment against the Jews or their enemies on multiple occasions in the Old Testament? Could the King James Version of the Bible have misled English speaking Christians for 400 years about certain critical details?
This book explores these possibilities, which if true, resolve the challenges to the accuracy of the Bible. The author examines the growing view of Bible prophecy called "preterism" or "covenant eschatology." This is the view that most, if not all prophecy has been fulfilled, completely disarming the challenges by Christianity's opponents. Before you dismiss this idea, you should test your presuppositions against what the Bible actually says. The preterist view has been held by some Christians since the first century and is gaining adherents today as flaws in the popular theories are being critically examined and discredited. Evangelical preterism restores Jesus as a true prophet and the Bible as reliable and authoritative.
The torrent of popular books and claims about biblical prophecy in recent decades seems to have a peculiar appeal to lay believers who, curiously enough, find hope in an expected destruction of the planet and its replacement with a utopia in which even carnivorous animals will take up vegetarianism. It is simply taken for granted that the Bible predicts and explains an end of time, and that there is no number of elapsed centuries spent waiting for it that cannot be called the "end times." This book upends such notions and will be of considerable interest to any Christian who takes the Bible seriously but is confounded, confused, and frustrated with the near comical, but sad state of affairs that afflicts modern Christianity on the question of the supposed end of all things.
The book is the product of over 10 years of research by the author, along with input from eight contributors. The book critically examines all of the popular views of Bible prophecy, many of which are contradictory or are little more than fanciful speculations without biblical support. It is written in easy-to-follow language for the informed layman, and it clearly and definitively answers the objections to the preterist view.
If you have never studied Bible prophecy carefully, or if the various modern views of prophecy just do not make sense when you read your Bible, this book will give you increased confidence in God's Word. It covers all of the eschatological topics including the New Heaven and New Earth, the Day of the Lord, the End of the Age, the Apocalypse, the Beast, the Great Tribulation, the Millennium, the Second Coming, the Kingdom of God, the Rapture, the Resurrection, and more. It brings extraordinary clarity to a difficult subject. Fear not to be challenged and changed.
Christian Hope through Fulfilled Prophecy An Exposition of Evangelical Preterism edition by Charles S Meek Religion Spirituality eBooks
I read a physical copy of this book, then gave it to a friend, and then also got it on Kindle for reference. This is an excellent book if you want to get very familiar with the Preterist way of looking at Bible prophecy. I am at a point in my life where I enjoy exposure to a variety of viewpoints, not so I can finally decide and make a dogmatic declaration of what the truth is, but so I can better understand differing views, and ponder what views make the most sense to me, even when I can't ultimately figure out what viewpoint is correct, which I am finding is most of the time with most things. With that being said, I was raised in fundamentalist Christianity of a Dispensationalist viewpoint and really went off the deep end following a particularly dogmatic Bible teacher when I was a senior in high school in 1974. I swallowed everything he taught hook line and sinker and thought I then knew the truth about everything. It took me many decades to become free of this approach. What I have learned is that most pastors or Bible teachers simply teach as the truth what they were taught in the theological seminaries that they were educated in. For Dispensationalism a major school is Dallas Theological Seminary. So eventually I started reading books that were critical of Dispensationalism, some of which were written many decades ago, such as "Prophecy and the Church" by Oswald T. Allis in 1945 with the subtitle "An examination of the claim of Dispensationalists that the Christian Church is a mystery parenthesis which interrupts the fulfilment to Israel of the kingdom prophecies of the Old Testament." I also discovered the voluminous Christian writings of Philip Mauro, an attorney who was a contemporary of Cyrus Scofield, the one who really popularized Dispensationalism with the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. Mauro wrote a book critical of Dispensationalism, "The Gospel of the Kingdom," the physical original copy I have was published in 1928, the year my father was born. Though I am not prepared to make a pronouncement that Preterism is "the truth," nor will I ever be, I can say that I think Preterism makes more sense than Dispensationalism. Therefore I am very skeptical of the view that many Christians have that Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled in our modern day with many signs of the soon to come end of the world. Just take Hal Lindsey's book "The Late Great Planet Earth" as an example of how many Christians have been peddling this questionable viewpoint for decades. This is a great book, even though the author, Charles Meek, displays a little of the same dogmatism about his viewpoint over against the viewpoints of other Christians in other areas, such as Christian Universalism, but that's a subject well covered in other books.Product details
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I found this book to be a thorough exposition of an eschatology that shows that what Jesus promised He would do, He did! It begins in the proper way, with a chapter on the proper method of Biblical Interpretation, which he lays out in a logical step by step approach. This is followed by a look at different eschatological views and what they entail. It is both interesting and comprehensive. Following this, Charles begins with an explanation of the phrase “end of the age” which includes the Greek word aion. He builds on this beginning and fully explains the meaning of the “Second Coming” both inside and outside of the Olivet discourse (Matt. 24, Mark 13, Luke 21). Charles does not back away from challenges to the Preterist view and takes on challenges to this view in a comprehensive manner.
One of the things I like about his approach is the non-threatening way in which he writes, even pointing out questions that you might want to ask your Pastor. Whereas Gary Demar’s book, “Last Days Madness” also does an excellent job of pointing out the error of dispensationalism, the “in your face” manner in which it is presented is offensive to many who have spent their lives believing this system. Contrary to this approach, Charles points out the error in this system in a straightforward, but kindly manner. The Appendices in the book are also excellent resources to aid in the approach to dispensationalism, as well as for a defense of Covenant Eschatology. Overall, I highly recommend this book. It is one of the most well written books I have found on this topic.
This is one of the best 'introductions' to Fulfilled Prophecy I have read. It takes the reader from the point of where they are and gently brings them to the conclusion that Jesus did everything He claimed He would do; in the time He said He would do it. No monkeying around with stretching time statements out of context. No redefining words like "generation" just to make it fit a pre-supposition. Those who disagree just need to study more and look at Scripture through a different set of lenses. It's a scary leap, sure, to take Scripture at it's Word, but it's a necessary leap that must be made in order to bring order to prophecy. Mr. Meek has done an outstanding job of serving up a plate of good-old-fashioned Bible logic and hermeneutics. Well done!
This is millenialism/dispensationalism's kryptonite. A well written and organized work on the subject of biblical Last Days and the Second Coming. The appendices alone are worth the purchase. Do you question all the modern day predictions and countless interpretations of Jesus coming back? Do you believe Revelation is the last book written because it is the last book in the Bible? Was Paul writing directly to you two thousand years ago? (he wasn't) Charles Meek has great explanations and insight for many questions that you may have; one of the best sources defending preterism. If you believe the world is coming to an end soon (it isn't), get this book and get a copy for your pastor.
I especially like some of his statements near the end-
"The modern church is an embarrassment to biblical Christianity, and is too often a stumbling block to seekers." P. 304
"Twelve Tests of a Healthy, Well-balanced and Vigorous Biblical Church
1. It has a high view of Scripture and is unafraid to boldly proclaim the bible as the inspired Word of God-from Genesis to Revelation (2 Tim 316-17; Hebrews 412; 2 Peter 316; etc). Members have a biblical worldview, that is, they see all of life (including art, music, science, government, history, and philosophy) through the lens of their faith. They are enthusiastic about learning more about what the Bible teaches (rather than merely what someone else tells them it says). (p. 308)
12. The church rejects aberrant doctrines such millennialism, fideism, nominalism, antinomianism, liberalism, and legalism."(p. 310)
I read a physical copy of this book, then gave it to a friend, and then also got it on for reference. This is an excellent book if you want to get very familiar with the Preterist way of looking at Bible prophecy. I am at a point in my life where I enjoy exposure to a variety of viewpoints, not so I can finally decide and make a dogmatic declaration of what the truth is, but so I can better understand differing views, and ponder what views make the most sense to me, even when I can't ultimately figure out what viewpoint is correct, which I am finding is most of the time with most things. With that being said, I was raised in fundamentalist Christianity of a Dispensationalist viewpoint and really went off the deep end following a particularly dogmatic Bible teacher when I was a senior in high school in 1974. I swallowed everything he taught hook line and sinker and thought I then knew the truth about everything. It took me many decades to become free of this approach. What I have learned is that most pastors or Bible teachers simply teach as the truth what they were taught in the theological seminaries that they were educated in. For Dispensationalism a major school is Dallas Theological Seminary. So eventually I started reading books that were critical of Dispensationalism, some of which were written many decades ago, such as "Prophecy and the Church" by Oswald T. Allis in 1945 with the subtitle "An examination of the claim of Dispensationalists that the Christian Church is a mystery parenthesis which interrupts the fulfilment to Israel of the kingdom prophecies of the Old Testament." I also discovered the voluminous Christian writings of Philip Mauro, an attorney who was a contemporary of Cyrus Scofield, the one who really popularized Dispensationalism with the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. Mauro wrote a book critical of Dispensationalism, "The Gospel of the Kingdom," the physical original copy I have was published in 1928, the year my father was born. Though I am not prepared to make a pronouncement that Preterism is "the truth," nor will I ever be, I can say that I think Preterism makes more sense than Dispensationalism. Therefore I am very skeptical of the view that many Christians have that Biblical prophecy is being fulfilled in our modern day with many signs of the soon to come end of the world. Just take Hal Lindsey's book "The Late Great Planet Earth" as an example of how many Christians have been peddling this questionable viewpoint for decades. This is a great book, even though the author, Charles Meek, displays a little of the same dogmatism about his viewpoint over against the viewpoints of other Christians in other areas, such as Christian Universalism, but that's a subject well covered in other books.
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