Ep. 4 is the first of an extended study going verse by verse through the Olivet Discourse as recorded in Matthew 24. This study is intended to be an audio version of/supplement to the written commentary “It’s Not the End of the World!” at http://www.preteristsite.com/plain/warrenend.html. This episode gives the backdrop and larger context leading up to the Olivet Discourse ending with the last “woe” declared upon the Pharisees, that their “house” would be left to them desolate as the blood of all the prophets would be required of “this generation.” Please open your Bibles and follow along.

Links and Resources

Technorama: This episode’s recommended podcast. Feed your inner Geek.

It’s Not the End of the World!: The main text for this study from The PreteristSite – starting point for this episode’s discussion is here.

Does the English text of “this generation” in Matthew 23:36 and 24:34 mean two different things? (TyRockwell vs. Darth Xena [me]): The debate mentioned in the podcast in which a futurist is totally trounced in trying to disassociate the contexts of Matthew 23 and 24

Source materials used in presentation

• The Destructive View of Preterism, Tommy Ice, The Conservative Theological Journal, 48, Volume 3
• The Great Tribulation: Past or Future, Kenneth Gentry, Kregel Publications, 1999 (co-authored with Tommy Ice)
• Matthew 24 and the Great Tribulation, Brian Schwertley, http://reformedonline.com/view/reformedonline/Tribulation .htm
• Jesus and the Old Testament, R.T. France, Regent College Publishing, 1998
• Last Days Madness, Gary DeMar, American Vision, 1999
• Understanding Matthew 24 in Light of Old Testament Knowledge, the audio file can be found at the Author Index on The Preterist Site under Mike Blume ~ I would disagree with Mike on Christology as he holds to a heretical “Oneness” view of the Godhead, but am in full agreement with his prophecy material thus far
• Babylon: The Great City of Revelation, Joseph R. Balyeat, Covenant House Books, 1995.
• But What About This Verse?, Biblical Worldview January 2005, Gary DeMar, American Vision http://www.preteristsite.com/docs/demarthisverse.pdf
• The Resurrection of the Son of God, N.T. Wright, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2003
• Perilous Times: Studies in Eschatological Evil, Kenneth Gentry, Covenant Media Press, 1999

Online Resources Dealing with Left Behind

• Don’t be “Left Behind” by Steven Davis
• I Want to be “Left Behind” and Who is Taken and Who is Left Behind? by Mike Blume (caution: the author is a Oneness Pentacostal, not an orthodox Christian – browse the rest of his site with GREAT care as it presents a heretical view of the Godhead)
• Why Left Behind Should be Left Behind by Andrew Corbett
• Dispensationalsim: Being Left Behind and The Fiction Behind “Left Behind” by Gary DeMar

Print Resources Dealing with Left Behind

• End Times Fiction by Gary DeMar
• I Want to be Left Behind by Ted Noel

Please remember to visit my other sites:

TheologyWeb: We Debate Theology… Seriously!

The PreteristSite: Oodles of Preterist resources, 100% heresy-free!

D-Dizzle fo Shizzle: My preterist blog with guest author Roderick Edwards

i drank the kool-aid: My Apple fan blog

 

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