If we are to understand how we’re to think about eschatology, about end times, about the relations between heaven and earth, and about life between the ascension of Christ and his return, we have to get to grips with our Lord’s Olivet discourse in Matthew 24 and its background in Daniel 9 so that is just what we do in this episode, we work through Matthew 24 and the vision of the 70 weeks in Daniel 9. When we read Scripture in the light of Scripture, the way our Lord and the Apostles teach us to read Scripture (as distinct from imitating the Pharisees or nineteenth-century critics) is rather different from what is typically found in these passages by premillennial Dispensationalists. It is also rather different from what is found by the so-called “full preterists,” i.e., those who hold that Jesus returned in AD 70, a heresy condemned by the Apostle Paul and the ecumenical church. What we find is that both Daniel 9 and our Lord in the Olivet Discourse make use of various features of prophetic discourse and, once we understand the genres in which these passages are to be understood, they become clearer. The point of both passages is not to provide secrets to be unlocked by experts using quasi-Gnostic techniques nor by hucksters selling secret knowledge. Rather, the point of these passages is to encourage the church during the period between the ascension and the return of Christ to remain faithful, knowing that the Lord of the covenant has not forgotten his promise or his people.

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Resources

• How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia
• On Distinguishing The Jerusalem That Is Below From That Which Is Above
• The Israel Of God
• Meredith G. Kline, “The Covenant of the 70th Week“
• It’s All about Eschatology
• Is There An Apostolic Hermeneutic And Can We Imitate it?
• What The Bible Is All About
• As It Was In The Days Of Noah: A Commentary On 1 and 2 Peter
• Undoing The Curse In This Life?
• What Would Calvin Say? (re-post)
• Resources On Theonomy And Reconstructionism
• Resources On Dispensationalism
• With Pilgrim Radio On “Left Behind” And Predictions Of Christ’s Return
• Two Points On Left Behind And The Secret Rapture
• Interview With TruNews’ Rick Wiles: On The Secret Rapture
• Dismantling the “Rapture”
• Good News! The Dividing Wall Is Gone
• We Are Not Polishing Brass On A Sinking Ship
• Covenant Theology Is Not Replacement Theology
• Audio: With Chris Gordon And AGR On Replacement Theology
• Heidelcast 137: How To Avoid The TheoRecon Tollbooth
• Resources On Natural Law
• Office Hours: What the Bible Actually Says About the End Times
• Audio: With New Geneva On Reformed Amillennialism (1)
• With The New Geneva Podcast On Amillennialism (Part 2)
• Audio: Amillennialism 101
• Kim Riddelbarger, A Case for Amillennialism
• Kim Riddelbarger, The Man of Sin: Uncovering the Truth About the Antichrist
• Dennis Johnson, Triumph of the Lamb: A Commentary on Revelation