March 22, 2013
Peter Jay Martin, following in the footsteps of his father Joseph Lemuel Martin, authored a book that surveyed Revelation. Published by the McQuiddy Company (the Gospel Advocate publisher) in 1913, it was entitled The Mystery Finished, or The New Heavens and the New Earth. Peter’s book is not as well known as his father’s (The Voice of […]
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Stone-Campbell, Theology | Tagged: Bible-Revelation, Christology, Church, Gospel, Kingdom, Millennialism, New Heavens and New Earth, Politics, Postmillennialism, Revelation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
September 12, 2008
There are many hermeneutical issues surrounding the Apocalypse, of course. And I will assume my own perspectives in this final installment on “Reverse the Curse.” One of my primary assumptions is the progressive cyclical undestanding of the seven seals, trumpets and bowls of wrath in the second vision (“in the Spirit,” 4:3) of Revelation (chapters 4-16). […]
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Theology | Tagged: Bible-Revelation, Consummation, Cosmos, Creation, Curse, Eschatology, Eschaton, New Creation, New Earth, New Heavens |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
July 26, 2005
Revelation 20 is dangerous ground upon which to walk. To comment on it assumes so much. It assumes a particular way of reading the whole apocalyptic drama. It assumes a particular structure to the book. Consequently, there are many ambiguities, varied understandings and even some nasty polemical controversies associated with this text. Nevertheless, I will […]
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Biblical Texts, Theology | Tagged: Bible-Revelation, Death, Eschatology, Grief, Intermediate State, Resurrection, Second Coming |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
July 21, 2005
However we might describe the “intermediate” state (the mode of existence for those who have died in the Lord), their sharing our sense of “waiting” for the fullness of God’s kingdom. Though they have passed from earth to the throne room of God through the portal of death, nevertheless they sense that their own journey […]
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Biblical Texts, Pastoral Care, Theology | Tagged: Bible-Revelation, Death, Grief, Hope, Intermediate State, Lament, Suffering |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 16, 2005
I had the joy of sharing one of my favorite texts with the Wisdom class at Woodmont Hills this morning. I love Isaiah 25. It excites me everytime I read it…and for several reasons. While Isaiah 13-24 rehearses God’s “woes” toward all nations due to their arrogance, injustice and evil, Isaiah 25 (actually beginning with […]
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Biblical Texts, Theology | Tagged: Bible-1 Corinthians, Bible-Isaiah, Bible-Revelation, Death, Eschatology, Lord's Supper, Sacraments, Table |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks