Prophecy Watch

A few years ago Hank Hanegraaff, the Bible Answer Man, came out as a Preterist. That theological aberration says all prophecy is past: It all happened in 70 A.D. We missed it! It’s actually history, not prophecy. Who knew?

To believe that then I’ve been studying something that is ancient history and offers no hope for the future. There is no Rapture and no Millennium. Nothing. Our “blessed hope” went up in smoke. We can only pour through the history books to learn that prophecy was fulfilled almost 2,000 years ago. This stretches credulity since one-third of the Bible — all references to things to come — is written in a futuristic tone.

LaHaye quickly became the whipping boy of non-pretrib premil bloggers. Previously it was Hal Lindsey. One popular blogger emailed LaHaye with a bunch of “gotcha” questions – and followed up with his own book. If I had a dollar for every protest email sent to pretrib teacher I’d be a wealthy man.

3. Seal Judgments

a. The Seven Seals opened by Christ

b. Seal 1 begins 70th Week of Daniel (See Gen 29:26-30, Daniel 9:27)

c. The Antichrist Covenant officially starts God’s ‘doomsday clock’ countdown by seven years

d. 25% of the earth’s population dies (Rev. 6:8)

e. 75% of the human population remain alive

And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come and see.” Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword. Revelation 6:2-4

But some are reasons that may be new to some. I have selected some to list here. I might mention Dr. Pentecost’s statement that we should all remember when studying Scripture, “These considerations all arise from the literal method of interpretation.”