Biblical Eschatology

The Holy Bible is the book with specific purpose. It has a forward looking, not a backward looking, periscope. It is not the design of this amazing book to tell about the world of the dinosaurs or of the pre-adamic age. Its purpose, however, is to tell of man’s arrival upon the earth, his fall from the Creator’s grace and his ultimate redemption. Also, the Bible (both Old and New Testaments) was written by Hebrews (with the exception of the Evangelist Luke), and, therefore, has a Hebraic worldview. By which, I mean: The Hebrew mind sees all things as having a starting point and a place of termination. Thus, the Bible presents its history as having a beginning and an end. The Bible’s history is His-Story. That is to say: It is about Jesus Christ of Nazareth from Genesis to Revelation.

The very first phrase of the Bible is “In the beginning… .” Here, we are made privy to the creation acts of the Almighty and are introduced to our first parents. Then moving through the pages of this wonderful book we follow mankind’s struggle to regain the fellowship that was lost in the garden. The whole paradise lost and paradise regained scenario plays itself out in living color in these all revealing  pages of God’s Word. The first four chapters of Genesis and the last two chapters of Revelation are the prophetic bookends of His-Story; indeed, the thesis and antithesis of history. 

The purpose of this epistle is to address some particulars of the winding up of this fantastic history of God’s dealings with mankind. This discipline of biblical study is called eschatology; from Greek eskhatos ‘last’+ -logy: the study of. Eschatology is the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.

An Overview of Eschatological Paradigms 

It will be helpful to first give a brief overview of the various eschatological positions held by believers throughout the history of Christianity. For the reader's information, the following references to “millennium” refers to the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20:4-7.

Premillennialism is the teaching that Christ will return before the millennium, interpreted literally as a 1,000 year personal reign of Christ on earth. This reign is set up at the Second Coming but precedes both the Final Judgment and the eternal state. Historically, premillennialism has not taught the various distinctives of dispensationalism (discussed next). Therefore, this view is today called Historic Premillennialism and is held only by a minority (17% according to our chart viewed below - same as Dispensationalism).

Dispensational Premillennialism is a popular view among modern evangelicals. This position was first set forth by J.N. Darby and the early Plymouth Brethren, popularized by the Scofield Reference Bible and Clarence Larkin’s study charts, further promoted in recent times by such sources as the Ryrie Study Bible, Dallas Theological Seminary, the Dake Study Bible, Hal Lindsey, Dave Hunt, Tim LaHaye, Jack Van Impe, etc. A simplified statement of its unique teachings is as follows: there are two distinct “peoples of God” (natural Israel and the Church) and seven distinct plans/ages (called dispensations) in which God deals with each; this “dispensation” (the sixth) from Pentecost to the “rapture” is “the Church Age.” Dispensationists see the “Church Age” as a parenthesis unforeseen by the OT prophets; once the Church is removed (i.e., “the rapture”) it is generally taught that there will be a 7 year “tribulation” (based on their understanding of various Bible passages); God will then resume His dealings with natural Israel, fulfilling all the OT promises, restoring their temple, etc.; finally, Christ returns and sets up a literal 1,000 year kingdom before the eternal state begins.

It should be noted here that as this teaching has enjoyed popularity, factions have evolved which set forth a "mid-trib." rapture (called, by some, “pre-wrath”) and also a “post-trib.” rapture ( which basically returns to the ancient view that the "catching away" of the saints happens at the Second Coming with no interval between). The “post-trib” rapture view is championed in the Oneness Pentecostal movement by Irvin Baxter Jr. It should further be noted that Dallas Theological Seminary is now the stomping ground of teachers describing themselves as progressive dispensationalists, a position that downplays many of the distinctives of classical dispensationalism and seeks more moderate ground. 
Dispensational Premillennialism is believed by 17% of all Christians.

I should make a note at this point, in the spirit of full disclosure: I spent 38 years of my ministry in the Dispensational Premillennialism camp as one of its champions.

Postmillennialism is the idea that Christ will return after the millennium. In this view, the millennium is interpreted literally as an earthly reign — however, this reign is ushered in as the Church subdues the world. Thus, the world becomes more and more Christianized, bringing about a golden age in which Christ exercises dominion through the Church — then the Second Coming takes place. This view enjoys acceptance in many Reformed circles, promoted by teachers like R.J. Rushdoony, Gary DeMar, Gary North, David Chilton, etc. The religious polls show that 6% of Christians profess Postmillennialism.

Amillennialism (or Realized Millennialism) is the final view we will consider here. Amillennialism is a deceptive term, as amillennialist do believe Revelation 20 — just not after the same fashion as the views described above. Some prefer “Gospel Age Millennialism” or, as I prefer: “Realized Millennialism.” The basic idea here is that the 1,000 years described in Revelation 20 is figurative of Christ's spiritual reign in this Gospel Age. Some particulars of Amillennialism (hereafter called Realized Millennialism) are: All the OT promises were fulfilled in Christ; Satan was bound at Christ’s first coming so that he cannot deceive the nations; there is now only one Israel — the Church made up of both Jews and Gentiles; Satan will be loosed just before the Second Coming; the rapture of the saints, the resurrection, and Christ's Second Coming are all a simultaneous event, followed immediately by the one general Judgment and then the eternal state (the New Heavens and New Earth).

The Realized Millennial view of the Lord's Apostles and later that of Augustine, and is the eschatological theology of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches, Oriental Orthodox churches, high Protestant churches such as Anglican, Episcopalian, and Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. Also, the Church of Christ, the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) and the Apostolic Orthodox Church International (among the  Oneness Pentecostals). 

Realized Millennialism has been the majority view that has commanded the ground of Christian eschatology throughout history. Today (2019) it is believe by 44% of all Christians. When the 6% of Christians that believe Post-Millennialism are added to the 44% who confess Realized Millennialism the percentage of Christians that embrace a Post-millennial Second Coming of Christ is at 50%. 

Again, in the spirit of full disclosure, this is the view that after much prayer and study I have come to embrace.

J. Marcellus Kik, in his excellent book, raised the following question:  “An individual Christian may ask himself this question: What more could the popular [futuristic] conception of the millennium give me than I already possess? I have a Savior who is my Prophet, Priest and King. God the Father is my covenant God. I have the forgiveness of sin. I have the promise of eternal life . . . I have the Holy Spirit as my Teacher, Sanctifier and Comforter. I have security against my greatest enemies: Death, Hell and the Devil. I am standing on Mt. Zion and am a citizen of the Holy City. I belong to the commonwealth of Israel and am not a stranger from the covenants of promise. What more does a Christian desire? More material prosperity? Is not the Lord wealth enough? Perhaps we desire less ‘tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?’ But are we not in all these things more than conquerors through Him who loves us?” J. Marcellus Kik, An Eschatology of Victory, p. 206. 

Surprisingly, only 17% of Christians claim the Dispensationalism of Darby, Scofield, Ryrie, Dake, Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye, Jack Van Impe, John Hagee or the Dallas Theological Seminary. Given all the ink it gets one would think the percentage would be much higher.

Terms for the Different Views of Revelation:

Revelation is the New Testament’s book of prophecy. Therefore, the book of Revelation is an essential manuscript in understanding eschatology. There are four major paradigms into which Bible students have attempted to catalog Bible prophecy. These paradigms are: Preterit, Futuristic, Idealic and Historic. I will briefly define them here: 

Preterit (Pret-er-it): The word means “past.” Those who hold to this view see the book of Revelation as having already been fulfilled within the lifetime of the apostles, or, at least by the end of the first century. A disciple of this system is called a “Preterist.” The Preterist has no expectation of a future rapture or a future Second Coming of Christ. The formerly discussed paradigms (Premillennialism, Dispensational Premillennialism, Postmillennialism, Realized Millennialism) have no purchase in the Preterit’s view.

Futuristic: The Futuristic system of interpretation places the visions of the Revelation into the very end of human history (most of which take place after the church has left the earth via the rapture). Disciples of this system are called “Futurists.” Futurists comprise all Premillennialist and Dispensational Pre-millennialist.

Idealic: The Idealic system views the prophecies and visions as having no particular fulfillment, but as being symbolic pictures of timeless truths; such as the triumph of good over evil. The formerly discussed paradigms (Premillennialism, Dispensational Premillennialism, Postmillennialism, Realized Millennialism) have no purchase in the Idealic view.

Historic: The Historic system of interpretation views the Revelation as describing the mystery of God as it unfolds from the time of the Church’s beginning up to, and including, the end of human history. Disciples of this system are called “Historicists.” 

I personally embrace the Historic paradigm of Bible prophecy, and thus, of the book of Revelation. It seems clear that Revelation 1:19 gives the schematic for understanding the Apocalypse. John is told: “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;… .” Thus, the revelations of the book are “historic.” Historic is used here in the sense of covering the history (past, present, and future) of the Lord’s Church. Premillennialism, Dispensational Premillennialism and Postmillennialism are all future paradigms for John’s prophecy. Realized Millennialism is the only paradigm that allows for the historicism of the Apocalypse in my view.

How We Understand The Millennium Is Key (The 1000 Years of Revelation 20)
I was a defender of dispensationalism and Christian Zionism for 38 years. I preached, taught, and wrote in its defense for all that time! Two things always bothered me, however,  but I kept pushing them to the back of my mind. Finally I had to deal with both. The first was the 1000 years of Revelation chapter 20. Was it literal or figurative? It always disturbed me that we interpreted it as literal even though it was part of a book that is symbolic throughout. The second item was Mathew 24:34 where Jesus stated clearly that His predictions up to that point (which included the tribulation) would take place in His generation. I was uncomfortable with how we had to twist and turn to get around that Jesus-saying.

When I understood the 1000 yrs to be a symbolic number like all the other numbers of Revelation it was like pulling the king-pin from a tangled mass of confusion, which permitted all eschatological passages to lay straight and true. And when I put on my big boy pants and admitted that the way we explained Matthew 24:34 was dishonest exegesis, all the fog of confession melted away under the bright sun of honesty.

I humbly challenge you, dear reader, to just test the passage in Revelation 20. What happens when it is interpreted within the genre of apocalyptic literature and aligned with its proper symbolic meaning? Truly, the unnatural literal understanding of this one passage has caused contorted twisting and dissecting of Scripture, which was necessary to make the rest of Scripture agree with its odd literalness. 

In biblical numerology 10 is the number of redemptive works  (see Revelation 2:10; 5:11; see also Genesis 18:32; 24:10, 22; 31:7; Exodus 7:14ff; 26:16; 34:28) and 3 is the number of confirmation. The number 1000 is 10 to the 3th power. Therefore, 1000 is the number 10 confirmed by 3 as God’s number of confirmation. We should see this number (1000) as representative of the amount of time God uses in the redemption of His creation. 

Likewise, take Jesus at His word. Jesus said the predicted events of Mathew 24 would transpire before the generation to whom He was speaking had passed away — died out. Jesus never used the word for generation in any other manner than to reference His contemporaries.

In determining just how Jesus is using the term “generation,” in Matthew 24:34, one must discover how He was accustomed to using the word. A listing follows of all the places Jesus employed “genea” (generation): Matthew 11:16; 12:34, 39, 41, 42, 45; 16:4; 17:17; 23:33; 23:36; *24:34. Mark 8:12, 38; 9:19; 13:30. Luke 7:31; 9:41; 11:29, 30, 31, 32, 50, 51; 16:18; 17:25; 21:32. 

One will notice that all the above references are from the Synoptic Gospels. Not once did He (Jesus) alter His application of the word from meaning the people who were His contemporaries. For any Bible teacher to give the word genea (generation, as it appears in Matthew 24:34) a meaning that is adverse to the way Jesus employed the word in every other place, is a blatant violation of the law of context. 

New Covenant With Israel 

Many are looking for a new covenant with the nation of Israel in the future. May I humbly suggest that there will be none. The New Covenant with Israel was made in AD 30. 

Christianity is the fulfillment of Jeremiah’s prophetic promise of a new covenant with the houses of Israel and Judah. That being true, one must see all twelve tribes represented in Jerusalem on the feast of Pentecost, in that the author of Hebrews, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, identifies A.D. 30 (see Acts 2:5-11) as the establishing of Jeremiah’s new covenant. Indeed, the Assyrians and Babylonians had scattered the house of Israel and the house of Judah over the earth, but in A. D. 30 they returned from the Parthian Empire, Media, Elam, Mesopotamia, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylis, Egypt, Cyrene, Rome, Crete, and Arabia to Jerusalem for the establishing of Jeremiah’s “new covenant.” On that day 3,000 were baptized into the covenant name of Jesus (Acts 2:4127); all 3,000 were Jews of the house of Israel and the house of Judah – the twelve tribes. Later, as a result of the healing of the lame man (Acts 3:1-16), and the preaching of Peter, 5,000 men believed (Acts 4:428); add to that number their women and children – all were Jews of the houses of Israel and Judah (the twelve tribes). By Acts 5:14 the disciples became too numerous to count and are referenced simply as “multitudes” – all were Jews of the houses of Israel and Judah (the twelve tribes). These are the “elect” that Paul writes of in Romans 11:1-5,7 who are the spiritual olive tree that was “born again” (John 3:3-10) from its former state as a natural tree. These are the Israel of promise (Romans 9:6-8; see Galatians 3:16-18; 4:22-31).

Christian Zionism is a mistaken idea that has plagued the Lord’s Church for about 150 years: ever since Dispensational Premillennialism sold evangelical America on the two covenant doctrine (one covenant for the Jews and one for the Church — an earthly and a heavenly church). Many have been reading the bible through the eyes of Darby, Scofield, Larkin, Lindsey, Hagee, and such like. They honestly think they have read the Bible for yourselves and have come up with this fantastic scenario, but they have not. They have been HELPED to see what they see.

Christian Zionist are those who support the physical nation of Israel and pray for the rebuilding of a Jewish temple where animal sacrifice will be re-instituted. They teach the Church to be a parenthetical mission of God, a plan B since the Jews rejected Him at His first coming. It seems to me that such a doctrine borders on blasphemy. It relegates the Bride of Christ to second class, plan B, status. Because Dispensationalism sees all Israel as temporarily rejected and cast away, it sees the Church as the afterbirth of the Holy Spirit’s miscarried pregnancy with Jewry. Of course the disciple of Christ must feel the affront this teaching presents to the Church. God is omniscient, knowing the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:9-10), there is no plan B with Him! 

Please do not get it wrong, I am not teaching “Replacement Theology.” I teach that the Church IS Israel; the Church has not replaced Israel. The Bride of Christ is the fruition of Judaism. All the prophecies of blessings given to Israel in the Old Testament are now the property of the Lord’s church. When the Lord told Nicodemus that he had to be born again (John 3:1-8), He was speaking past Nicodemus to the nation of the Jews whom Nicodemus represented. The new birth of the Hebrew nation took place on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4). The Apostle Paul explained the theology of it all in Romans chapter eleven. The Olive Tree (Israel of faith) was born again from a natural to a spiritual tree. The Jews were not grafted into the tree — they were the tree, but we Gentiles were grafted into the Israel of faith. No, the Church has not replaced Israel — the Church is Israel.

Sensationalism of Dispensational Premillennialism

Please, if you have a brain stop and think on this: The sensationalism and hype of Dispensational Premillennialism has gotten to be too much for the Church. One can only cry “wolf” so many times before no one listens, nor believes, any longer.  In my father and mother’s day Hitler was the antichrist and Mussolini was the false prophet, The dispensationalists were convinced of this ‘fact” especially after Mussolini had a statue of himself rigged to broadcast his voice in the form of his radio speeches (Revelation 13:15). In my life time it only got worse as the rapture mania reached a fever pitch. When the Russians built a dam on the Euphrates River it was lauded as the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. The purpose of the dam, we were told, was to dry up the Euphrates River so 200,000,000 chinamen could  get to the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16:12-16). Then we were told the European Union’s 10 nation charter was the fulfillment of the ten toes of Daniel's image (Daniel 2:41-42) — now the charter has been enlarged to include more than ten nations (28 at present). In the 70’s prophecy journals began publishing such amazing events. One of my favorites: The buzzards in Israel had started producing twice as many young as was normal. We were told that this quirk of nature was so there would be enough birds present to clean up the dead bodies from the great battle (Revelation 19:17-18). Then the sensationalist carnival barkers gave us the book entitled “88 Reason Why Jesus Will Return In 1988.” Well, how did that work out? The UPC bar code on retail items is the mark of the beast (we were told)  each contain three 6’s (Revelation 13:16-17). When Israel is of age (40 “this generation") we were told the rapture would take place; well, that happened in 1987 — we are still here. The church age is 2,000 years because of the square cubic volume of the Holy Place of the tabernacle; thus, the rapture would happen by the year 2000 (Y2K scare), but, wait, the calendar is off 3-4 years—Christ was born in 4 B. C.; so we missed the rapture in 1996. 0r was it 97? At any rate, we are still here. But do not despair, they were most likely counting from the wrong starting point: we should count from the birthday of the Church, not the birthday of Christ. So, then we may expect another flood of books and high paid personal appearances of the carnival barkers leading up to 2030. But even then do not faint; when we are still here in 2031 the date with be reset for 2033. And the beat goes on! More recently the hype of John Hagee (and others) concerning the blood moons has made it rounds through the churches; but it is just that, hype. The cry of my soul is: "O, when will the church world ever get fed up with all this sensationalism, and cry: ‘Enough!’”

Concerning the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple:  In my teens preachers were preaching the rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. We were told that Israel had ordered stone from our state of Indiana and it was in ships laying in anchor off the coast of Israel ready to be unloaded any moment; in my thirties, I attended a camp meeting in our state of Mississippi were we were taught for five days that the ashes of the Red Heifer were (at that moment) being unearthed in Israel, and that a man by the name of Lot (a descendant of the biblical Lot—we were told) was breeding the red heifers for the Jerusalem temple in our state of Texas; in my forties we were told that the ark of the covenant had been discovered inside the hill that Christ was crucified upon (Golgotha) and when the State of Israel gives the word it would be unearthed and placed in the new temple. 

I hope you will be able to understand my heart, when I say: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ALREADY!!

Here is something to think about: The Anti-Christ is to set himself up in the “temple of God” and demand to be worshipped as God. This is true (2 Thes-salonians 2:4). But, from this biblical truth it is mistakenly extrapolated by Dispensational Premillennialists that a third temple in Jerusalem is to be rebuilt. Are people totally without reason?  What is the “temple of God?” The Church, maybe (1 Corinthians 3:16-17)?! Who does not witness humanism enthroned in the Church throughout the earth?

In the decade following the turn of the century I became aware of the harm being done to the Gospel message by this mistaken eschatological paradigm that made a laughing stock of the Church with its comic book presentations of the end-time message. Further, the damage done to generations of Christians by robing them of educational opportunities and life planning. I am a classic example: Because we were the ‘Rapture Generation” I was discouraged from pursuing a college education (even though I had received a scholarship to play football for Tennessee State) and was rushed onto the evangelist field; we were in a race with the rapture. Moreover, as a young minister I signed away my Social Security benefits, because money invested would be money waisted, since the rapture would take me out long before I reached retirement age. Well, I am 69 with hardly any Social Security benefits at all. One could say, “Jerry that was poor decision making on your part.” But that would be a poor assessment. We believed the hype. Thought it was Gospel. We were brave and had the courage of our convictions. We were misled. 

I took five years (2000 -2005) to pray and study on this very important subject. The end result was a recalibrating of my eschatological understanding which lead to the embracing of Realized Millennialism that sees the Church as Israel, thus the Messianic Kingdom.

Concluding Remarks

Why are some people determined to defend a false teaching in the face of Scriptural evidence that proves them wrong? Sadly, many men continue to defend a doctrine that has been soundly defeated in polemic contests because they championed it before they knew better, and to recant would cause them to lose face. I know of what I speak. In a private discussion on this very topic with a close friend (who has been, for decades, a leading figure in a major  Pentecostal denomination), the last statement he made to me was: "We have preached what we have preached; it will be up to future generations to make the needed corrections."

As a Historicist who embraces Realized Millennialism some of the things I have come to understand are the following:

1. The apocalyptic Scripture (which includes Revelation) covers the scope of human history up to and including the judgement;
2. Matthew 24 and the "Great Tribulation" (Jacob’s [Jews] trouble) was fulfilled in the generation of Christ and His apostles (Matthew 24:34);
3. The Kingdom of the Messiah was born on the Day of Pentecost AD 30; and came of age by AD 70.
4. The Church is the Israel of God (Galatians 6:16);
5. The Church wins against the AntiChrist and establishes righteousness throughout the earth (Daniel chapter 7);
6. The 1,000 year reign of Christ is a symbolic number that means “a long time.” It began on the Day of Pentecost A.D. 30 and continues until God has redeemed His creation.
7. The “First Resurrection” is spiritual and references the category of persons who have been born again, or said another way: those who have been resurrected from the death of sin to new life. (John 5:24-25).
8. Those from Revelation 20:4-6 that rule and reign with Christ for 1,000 years are the martyrs of the Great Tribulation from the first century only.
9. Satan is bound during this 1000 yrs so he can not deceive the nations, leaving the nations open to evangelization;
10. At the end of the 1000 yrs Satan will be loosed to make war on the saints one last time;
11. The physical resurrection of the saved and unsaved takes place after the 1000 year reign of Christ (Revelation 20:4-6).
12. The physical resurrection is a "General Resurrection" of both the righteous and unrighteous (Acts 24:15; Daniel 12:2; John 5:28-29).
13. At the time of the resurrection, but just moments after there will be what is called the rapture of the living saints, when they are changed into spirit bodies;
14. The present earth will be renovated by fire and a perfect age will be established upon the cleansed earth.

Amen

Apostolic Speaking

☩☩ Jerry L Hayes

Read other epistles from the pen of the Bishop on Prophecy:

"Apostolic Kingdom Theology vs Futurism"
https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2013/07/apostolic-kingdom-theology-vs-futurism.html

"Dating the Book of Revelation"

https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2013/07/dating-book-of-revelation.html

"Prophecy and the Spiral Staircase"
https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2013/04/bible-prophecy-and-spiral-staircas.html

"Apostolic Eschatology"
https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2013/02/apostolic-eschatology.html

"The Prophets Speak of the Church"
https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-prophets-speak-of-church.html

God’s New Covenant With Israel

https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2019/05/gods-new-covenant-with-israel.html

Apostolic Kingdom Theology vs Futurism

https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2013/07/apostolic-kingdom-theology-vs-futurism.html

The Three Horsemen of Dispensationalism

https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-three-horsemen-of-dispensationalism.html

Correct Method of Interpreting the Book of Revelation

http://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2015/07/correct-method-of-interpreting.html

Joel's Messianic Kingdom (The Church of Jesus Christ)
https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2019/06/joels-messianic-age-church-of-jesus.html

Millennial Reign of Christ
http://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2019/09/millennial-reign-of-christ.html

All These Things (A Study on Matthew 24)
http://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2019/09/all-these-things-kingdom-teaching-of.html

Second Coming of Christ Jesus
https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2019/09/second-coming-of-christ-jesus.html

The Crux of the Matter (What Did Jesus Mean By "The Generation"?)
https://bishopjerrylhayes.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-crux-of-matter-what-did-jesus-mean.html

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After spending over 38 years in the dispensational doctrine, and having raise my children in that theological framework, I became a convinced adherent to a "kingdom" theology that recognizes the Church as the Israel of God, and that the first century actually saw the fulfillment of most of Matthew chapter 24. "Letters to My Children on Apostolic Kingdom Theology" is a compilation of twenty four letters written to my children explaining my journey, These "Letters" provide a systematic approach to Apostolic Eschatological study of Scripture. It is sure to interest all students of Scriptures. 
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