In continuing our reply to Preterism Is False,
and Dr. Edward Hinson of Liberty University’s
The New Last Day’s Scoffers, we address
the millennium.
Is the Millennium Past, Present or Future?
This means we are responding to both
Amillennialism and Dispensationalism as
tenants of futurism.
Dr. Hinson, erroneously assumed that Preterism holds to a present millennium. We deny that assertion.
Rather, it is the Amillennial view which holds that the millennium is currently present, is figurative in that it includes the entire period beginning with Christ’s enthronement at the right hand of the Father already now exceeding a literal 1,000 years (Acts 2:29–33) and continues until his alleged future return.
For Amillennialists, the millennium could be a million years long or more depending on when the alleged future return of Christ would occur.
Dispensationalism on the other hand, holds the millennium to be yet future, and a literal 1000 years reign of Christ on earth. They view it as not yet having occurred. The similarity of the views is that both see an end to the millennium in the future, which both assume to be a yet future return of Christ.
They are divided into groups of PreTrib, Mid-Trib and Post Tribulation Rapture teaching depending on when they believe the millennium commences.
Preterism or fulfilled Bible prophecy, also known as Covenant or realized eschatology, holds the millennium to be past, symbolical of Christ’s pre-Parousia reign, commencing on at or shortly before Pentecost, (Acts 2:29–35) and ending at his Parousia at the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70.
Rather than an attempt to critique each view separately, we believe the shortest distance to an accurate interpretation of the millennium is to allow the Scriptures to interpret Scripture.
Our First and Major Point of Agreement on the Millennium
For each view, we all agree that the millennium ends with the arrival of the New Heaven and New Earth. Since the New Heavens and earth marks the time of the Jesus’ coming or Parousia, then Christ’s coming ends the millennium and equates with the arrival of the New Heaven and New earth.
Since we all agree on this first major point, none of the following points can be logically denied.
Our Second Point of Agreement: The Destruction of Christ’s Enemies
God raised Christ and seated him on David’s throne at his right hand. Christ therefore reigns at the right hand of the Father until all enemies are placed in subjection under his feet, (Acts 2:35). Thus, the time of subduing Christ’s enemies equals the time he sits at God’s right hand. This is called the time he must reign.
Now the last enemy to be subdued is death, 1 Cor. 15:26. He who had the power of death was Satan, (Heb. 2:14). Therefore, the time of subduing Christ’s enemies also marks the time for the defeat of Satan.
That we are correct in our argument is demonstrated in that Satan is said to be bound for 1000 years, i.e. for the time of the millennium, (Rev. 20:1–3). But, we know that when the New Heavens and earth arrives, the millennium ends, thus Satan’s destruction along with death must be completed at the arrival of the New Heaven and earth, i.e. at Christ’s coming.
The only logical objection to this point is to argue that death and Satan continues after the arrival of the New Heaven and earth. Who wants to go there?
The text shows that prior to the arrival of the events in Revelation 21, Satan, Death and Hades, all enemies of Christ, are judged and cast into the lake of fire.
This would also include the “little season.” It does not matter what one chooses to make of it, it too is over at Satan’s demise, before the coming of the New Heaven and earth, i.e. the Parousia.
Third Point of Agreement: The Commencement and Completion of the First Resurrection
During the time of the millennium, the saints are said to live and reign with Christ a 1000 years. By the way, since Dispensationalists say Christ will reign on earth a thousand years, where are these saints who live and reign with him.
According to them, all the righteous are raptured seven years before the millennium begins. Oh well, I digress. Now back to the argument at hand] In dispy talk that means I won’t get to it for another 2,000 years! Not!
Revelation 20:4–6 says that those who were beheaded, who did not receive the mark of the beast lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Thus, they live and reign with Christ during the millennium.
Of them, John states, this is the first resurrection (v. 5). But not until it is finished, i.e. the millennium is over, do the rest of the dead live. Nor does it matter that some take the “rest of the dead” to be the wicked who do not live based on their interpretation of the word “until” or the righteous dead who live after the millennium is finished, the point is this:
After the millennium ends the resurrection is over or occurs. Take your pick. It all happens before the arrival of the new heaven and earth, i.e. before Christ’s parousia.
Fourth Point of Agreement
The Great Tribulation and Battle of Armageddon Ends at the Arrival of the New Heaven and Earth.
Whatever one believes about the great tribulation and the Battle of Armageddon, neither event extends beyond the arrival of the New Heaven and Earth. In other words, as above, when Christ comes and ushers in the heavenly city, the millennium is past history. So is the great tribulation and the battle of Armageddon.
Fifth Point of Agreement, The Sealing of the 144,000 in the Millennium
The 144,000 are Sealed During the Time of the Millennium. Why is this the case? Because they come out or through the great tribulation. We demonstrated in point three that the great tribulation occurs before the arrival of the new heaven and earth.
Therefore, if the 144,000 come through the great tribulation, to stand before the throne of God, they of necessity are sealed before the millennium ends, or during the time of the millennium.
Sixth Point of Agreement is the Wedding of Christ Occurs At the Arrival of the New Heaven and Earth.
The church is espoused (betrothed) to Christ during his pre-parousia reign. Paul said he espoused the church to one husband that he might present her [at a future time] to Christ, (2 Cor. 11:2). Thus, the brethren died to the law, that they might be [future tense] married to another, i.e. to him who was raised from the dead, (Rom. 7:4).
Paul writes to the Ephesians saying that Christ would present the church to himself as a bride, holy and without blemish, (Eph. 5:27).
The marriage however does not occur until Christ’s enemies are defeated. In fact, the arrival of the New Heaven and earth is when the “holy city, the New Jerusalem which comes down out of heaven is presented as the bride for Christ, (Rev. 21:2, 9–11).
Therefore, the espousal period occurs before the wedding and answers to the time of the millennium. The wedding is the Parousia which ends the millennium at the arrival of the new heaven and earth.
Seventh Point of Agreement: The Old Heaven and Earth Passes Before the Arrival of the New Heaven and Earth.
The end or passing of the Old Heaven and earth passes before the arrival of the new. Revelation 20:11, says, “Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was no place found for them.”
When John sees the arrival of the New Heaven and earth, the old has passed, (Rev. 21:1). Therefore, the end of the old heaven and earth, belongs to the time of the millennium. The passing of the old heaven and earth marks the end of the millennium.
Eight Point of Agreement, The Last Days End with the Arrival of the New Heaven and Earth
As in all the above, the arrival of the New Heaven and earth, marks the end of the last days. We’ve shown in the previous writing that the “age to come” i.e. the kingdom or Christian age, has no last days.
The kingdom has no end. Thus the period of the last days belong to the millennium, in which time Christ was defeating his enemies. The last days end with the coming of Christ, i.e. the arrival of the New heaven and earth.
Ninth Point of Agreement: The Ministry of the Holy Spirit Ends At Christ’s Coming with the Arrival of the New Heaven and Earth.
There is no doubt that the Holy Spirit’s ministry belonged to the last days, (Joel 2:28–32, Acts 2:16–20). Yet, the apostles taught that the church would only be confirmed until the revelation of Christ, i.e. until the Parousia, (1 Cor. 1:7,8).
This Paul describes in chapter 13:10, as the coming of the perfect in which we see face to face. Such state is attained after the millennium in the heavenly city at the throne of God, Rev. 22: 4.
This means, when the new heaven and earth arrives, the Holy Spirits’ mission is complete. He has convicted the world and Satan of sin, and judged them, (John 16:8–11).
Since the work of the Holy Spirit involved the sealing of the servants of God and the judgment upon Satan, and ends with Christ’s coming, it belonged to the time of the millennium.
Tenth Point of Agreement: The Millennium is the Time Israel Is Regathered to the Land
Israel’s land promise of necessity is fulfilled before the arrival of the New Heaven and Earth, i.e. before the Parousia. Certainly, Dr. Hinson, a Dispensationalist cannot object to that.
Tim LaHaye and Thomas Ice, depict the restoration and regathering of Israel during the time of the millennium. See Charting the End Times, pages, 97,100,103,105,110,125. This regathering ends with the arrival of the New Heaven and earth. Therefore, it ends at the consummation of the millennium.
Eleventh Point: Gog and Magog’s Destruction Ends at the Arrival of the New Heaven and Earth
Gog and Magog, battle before the end of the old heaven and earth, before the end of Satan, and therefore, before the millennium ends. Since Satan’s defeat occurs with the consummation of the millennium, the battle of nations involving Gog and Magog ends before the arrival of the New heaven and new earth.
Twelfth Point of Agreement: The Lamb and Lion, Swords and Plowshares prophecy fulfilled in the Millennium.
The prophecies of Isaiah 2:3, 4; 11:6–9, and 65:25, regarding beating swords into plowshares and lions lying with lambs, eating straw like oxen and babies playing at cobra dens are all prophecies of the millennial reign of Christ.
The point, all ends at the arrival of the new heaven and earth. Therefore, they belong to the same time preceding the end of the age as do all the rest above.
Again, not a single prophecy can be omitted or placed beyond the arrival of the new heaven and earth.
Thirteenth Point of Agreement: The Coming of the New Heaven and Earth Fulfills All Bible Prophecy
Once the new heaven and earth arrives, all bible prophecy is fulfilled. From this conclusion there is no escape. In other words, Christ’s coming fulfills all prophecy.
Thus, we could simply state that when all Bible prophecy is fulfilled the millennium and all its attendant events are consummated. By now, if you haven’t already seen the train coming, you should hear the horn blast.
So far, every event we named above is found in Old Testament prophecy.
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- Crushing of Satan, Gen. 3:15
- Pre-Parousia Enemy Subduing Reign of Christ, Psa. 110:1–4
- Coming of the New Heaven and Earth, Isa. 65:17f
- Parousia, Dan. 7:14, 22, Isa. 40:10; 62:11
- Defeat of Death and Hades/Resurrection, Isa. 25:8; Hos. 13:14; Dan. 12:2
- Wedding of Christ, Isa. 62:4, 5; Hos. 2:20
- Passing of the old heaven and earth, Psa. 102:25, 26; Isa. 50:6; Hag. 2:6
- Last days of Israel, (Deut. 31:29, 32:5f)
- Coming of the Holy Spirit, Joel 2:28–32; Mic. 7:15; Ezk. 36:25
- Regathering of Israel, Ezk. 37:1–14
- Battle of Gog and Magog, Ezk. 38, 39
- The Lion and Lamb, Swords and Plowshares, Isa. 2, 11, 65:25
Now, here is the point of disagreement. Jesus’ words are not true. That’s it. That’s where Preterism, Amillennialism, and Dispensationalism disagree. Here is what we mean.
Jesus said, speaking or the time of the fall of Jerusalem in the first century, “For these are the days of vengeance, that ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN MAY BE FULFILLED, Luke 21:20. In the same chapter he said, “Assuredly, I say to you, THIS GENERATION WILL BY NO MEANS PASS AWAY TILL ALL THINGS TAKE PLACE. (Luke 21:32).
Those two verses are the who crux of the matter between the futurism of Amillennialism and Dispensationalism versus the past fulfillment of Preterism.
Futurists deny that Jesus told the truth when he said, all things would be fulfilled at Jerusalem’s fall by the Romans in AD 70. Preterists accept the words as true.
Futurists deny that the generation then living could not pass away will all things written took place. Preterism affirms they did all happen before that generation passed.
Since therefore, the Lord placed the fulfillment of all Bible prophecy at the time of Jerusalem’s fall within the first century generation, and since the arrival of the new heavens and earth (our major point of agreement) is the fulfillment of all Bible prophecy, then the millennium is past.
The millennium refers to the period beginning with Christ being seated at the right hand of God to await the defeat and subjugation of his enemies and ends with Christ’s second coming at the arrival of the new heavens and earth. All took place within that generation.
Miscellaneous Millennium Objections by Dr. Hinson
If the millennium is fulfilled, why did Peter say the devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, (1 Peter 5:8)
We reply that Peter wrote this text applying it to the time of the millennium before the arrival of the new heaven and earth. Because Satan’s power was bound, he had to seek out the ignorant and weak to devour it. Those who were strong could resist him, thus he would “flee” those who being steadfast in the faith resisted him.
Unless Dr. Hinson is ready to argue this passage describes activity which occurs after the arrival of the New heaven and earth, i.e. after the millennium, he has no point.
If the Satan is bound why are the nations yet deceived? The nations were deceived by Satan’s power to convince them that the ethnic or fleshly Israel, i.e. national Israel were the true sons of God.
They deceived the Romans into believing it, to the point that Christ was allowed to be crucified. Not until Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70, did the veil of blindness removed from the nations concerning who were God’s true sons. That was the great controversy of the New Testament.
Today, it appears that mostly the “Dispensational nation” are the only ones deceived by it, and that is by choice. The true Israel is the church, not replaced but transformed by the New Covenant.
God did not cast away Paul, an ethnic Jew, when Paul was converted to Christianity. Thus, Paul affirms, God has not cast away his people, for I [a Jewish Christian] am an Israelite.
Thus, Jews were not cast away, but “cast anew” by the new birth prophesied in Ezk. 36:26, 27; John 3:5. “Do not marvel that I said to you [singular, meaning Nicodemus], that ‘You, plural, meaning Israel the nation], must be born again.
Those who rejected the new birth in Christ were destroyed, (Matt. 3:10, 11)those who accepted were “brought through the fire” and saved as the remnant. How many in the remnant did God save, all of them, thus, all Israel, i.e. was saved.
Third Question Raised by Dr. Hinson: If the 1000 years are only symbolic, then is the reign of Christ only symbolic?
The answer is no. The 1000 years is a symbol of perfection, derived by multiply, 10, a perfect number in Scripture numerology, by 10 squared. 10x10x10.
A symbol always points to something other than itself. So, the thousand years symbol does not point to itself, rather it points to Christ’s pre-parousia reign in which he subdues all his enemies.
The door is a symbol used to describe Christ. It does not mean Christ is a literal door, but a means of access to the Father, through which believers must pass.
The fact that the door is symbolic doesn’t mean that Christ is not real. In like manner, the “thousand years” symbolism does not mean that which it represented was not real.
Preterism is False, Part 1 – Implications
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PRETRIB RAPTURE DISHONESTY
by Dave MacPherson
When I began my research in 1970 into the exact beginnings of the pretribulation rapture belief still held by many evangelicals, I assumed that the rapture debate involved only “godly scholars with honest differences.” The paper you are now reading reveals why I gave up that assumption many years ago. With this introduction-of-sorts in mind, let’s take a long look at the pervasive dishonesty throughout the history of the 179-year-old pretrib rapture theory:
Mid-1820’s – German scholar Max Weremchuk’s work “John Nelson Darby” (1992) included what Benjamin Newton revealed about John Darby in the mid-1820’s during his pre-Brethren days as an Anglican clergyman:
“J. N. Darby was a very subtle man. He had been a lawyer, or at least educated for the law. Once he wanted his Archbishop to pursue a certain course, when he (J.N.D.) was a curate in his diocese. He wrote a letter, therefore, saying he had been educated for the law, knew what the legal course would properly be; and then having written that clearly, he mystified the remainder of the letter both in word and in handwriting, and ended up by saying: You see, my Lord, such being the legal aspect of the case it would unquestionably be the best course for you to pursue, etc. And the Archbishop couldn’t make out the legal part, but rested on Darby’s word and did as he advised. Darby afterwards laughed over it, and indeed he showed a copy of the letter to Tregelles. This is not mentioned in the Archbishop’s biography, but in it is the fact that he spoke of Darby as ‘the most subtle man in my diocese.'”
This reminds me of an 1834 letter by Darby which spoke of the “Lord’s coming.” Darby added, concerning this coming, that “the thoughts are new” and that during any teaching of it “it would not be well to have it so clear.” Darby’s deviousness here was his usage of a centuries-old term – “Lord’s coming” – to cover up his desire to sneak the new pretrib idea into existing posttrib groups in very low-profile ways!
1830 – In the spring of 1830 a young Scottish lassie, Margaret Macdonald, came up with the novel notion of a catching up [rapture] of Spirit-filled “church” members before Antichrist’s “trial” [tribulation] of non-Spirit-filled “church” members – the first instance I’ve found of clear “pretrib” teaching (which was part of a partial rapture scheme). In Sep. 1830 “The Morning Watch” (a journal produced by London preacher Edward Irving and his “Irvingite” followers, some of whom had visited Margaret a few weeks earlier) began repeating her original thoughts and even her wording but gave her no credit – the first plagiarism I’ve found in pretrib history. Darby was still defending posttrib in Dec. 1830.
Pretrib promoters have long known the significance of her main point: a rapture of “church” members BEFORE the revealing of Antichrist. Which is why John Walvoord quoted nothing in her revelation, why Thomas Ice habitually skips over her main point but quotes lines BEFORE and AFTER it, and why Hal Lindsey muddies up her main point so he can (falsely) assert that she was NOT a pretribber! (Google “X-Raying Margaret” for info about her.)
NOTE: The development of the 1800’s is thoroughly documented in my book “The Rapture Plot.” You’ll learn that Darby wasn’t original on any chief aspect of dispensationalism (but plagiarized the Irvingites); that pretrib was initially based on only OT and NT symbols and not clear Scripture; that the symbols included the Jewish feasts, the two witnesses, and the man child – symbols adopted by Darby during most of his career; that Darby’s later reminiscences exaggerated his earliest pretrib development, and that today’s defenders such as Thomas Ice have further overstated what Darby overstated; that Irvingism didn’t need later reminiscences to “clarify” its own early pretrib development; that ancient hymns and even the writings of the Reformers were subtly revised to make it appear they had taught pretrib; and that after Darby’s death a clever revisionist quietly made many changes in early Irvingite and Brethren documents in order to steal credit for pretrib away from the Irvingites (and their female inspiration!) and give it dishonestly to Darby! (Before continuing, Google the “Powered by Christ Ministries” site and read “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers” – a sample of the current exciting internetism!)
1920 – Charles Trumbull’s book “The Life Story of C. I. Scofield” told only the dispensationally-correct side of his life. Two recent books, Joseph Canfield’s “The Incredible Scofield and His Book” (1988) and David Lutzweiler’s “DispenSinsationalism: C. I. Scofield’s Life and Errors” (2006), reveal the other side including his being jailed as a forger, dishonestly giving himself a non-conferred “D.D.” etc. etc.!
1967 – Brethren scholar Harold Rowdon’s “The Origins of the Brethren” quoted Darby associate Lord Congleton who was “disgusted with…the falseness” of Darby’s accounts of things. Rowdon also quoted historian William Neatby who said that others felt that “the time-honoured method of single combat” was as good as anything “to elicit the truth” from Darby. (In other words, knock it out of him!)
1972 – Tim LaHaye’s “The Beginning of the End” (1972) plagiarized Hal Lindsey’s “The Late Great Planet Earth” (1970).
1976 – Charles Ryrie”s “The Living End” (1976) plagiarized Lindsey’s “The Late Great Planet Earth” (1970) and “There’s A New World Coming” (1973).
1976 – After John Walvoord’s “The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation” (1976) brutally twisted Robert Gundry’s “The Church and the Tribulation” (1973), Gundry composed and circulated a 35-page open letter to Walvoord which repeatedly charged the Dallas Seminary president with “misrepresentation,” “misrepresentations” (and variations)!
1981 – “The Fundamentalist Phenomenon” (1981) by Jerry Falwell, Ed Dobson, and Ed Hindson heavily plagiarized George Dollar’s 1973 book “A History of Fundamentalism in America.”
1984 – After a prof at Southeastern College of the Assemblies of God in Florida told me that the No. 2 man at the AG world headquarters in Missouri – Joseph Flower – had the label of posttrib, my wife and I had two hour-long chats with him. He verified what I had been told. But we were dumbstruck when he told us that although AG ministers are required to promote pretrib, privately they can believe any other rapture view! Flower said that his father, an AG co-founder, was also posttrib. We also learned while in Springfield that when the AG’s were organized in 1914, the initial group was divided between posttribs and pretribs – but that the pretribs shouted louder which resulted in that denomination officially adopting pretrib! (For details on this and other pretrib double-mindedness, Google “Pretrib Hypocrisy.”)
1989 – Since 1989 Thomas Ice has referred to the “Mac-theory” (his reference to my research), giving the impression there’s no solid evidence that Macdonald was the real pretrib originator. But Ice carefully conceals the fact that no eminent church historian of the 1800’s – whether Plymouth Brethren or Irvingite – credited Darby with pretrib. Instead, they uniformly credited leading Irvingite sources, all of which upheld the Scottish lassie’s contribution! Moreover, I’m hardly the only modern scholar seeing significance in Irvingism’s territory. Others in recent years who have noted it, but who haven’t mined it as deeply as I have, include Fuller, Ladd, Bass, Rowdon, Sandeen, and Gundry.
1989 – Greg Bahnsen and Kenneth Gentry produced evidence in 1989 that Lindsey’s book “The Road to Holocaust” (1989) plagiarized “Dominion Theology” (1988) by H. Wayne House and Thomas Ice.
1990 – David Jeremiah’s and C. C. Carlson’s “Escape the Coming Night” (1990) massively plagiarized Lindsey’s 1973 book “There’s A New World Coming.” (For more info, type in “Thieves’ Marketing” on MSN or Google.)
1991 – Paul Lee Tan’s “A Pictorial Guide to Bible Prophecy” (1991) plagiarized large amounts of Lindsey’s “The Late Great Planet Earth” (1970).
1991 – Militant Darby defender R. A. Huebner claimed in 1991 to have found new evidence that Darby was pretrib as early as 1827 – three years before Macdonald. Halfway through his book Huebner suddenly admitted that his evidence could refer to something completely un-rapturesque. Even though Thomas Ice admitted to me that he knew that Huebner had “blown” his so-called evidence, prevaricator Ice continues to tell the world that Huebner has “positive evidence” that Darby was pretrib in 1827! Ice also conceals the fact that Darby, in his own 1827 paper, was looking for only “the restitution of all things” and “the times of refreshing” (Acts 3:19,21) – which Scofield doesn’t see fulfilled until AFTER a future tribulation!
1992 – Tim LaHaye’s “No Fear of the Storm” (1992) plagiarized Walvoord’s “The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation” (1976).
1992 – This was when the Los Angeles Times revealed that “The Magog Factor” (1992) by Hal Lindsey and Chuck Missler was a monstrous plagiarism of Prof. Edwin Yamauchi’s scholarly 1982 work “Foes from the Northern Frontier.” Four months after this exposure, Lindsey and Missler stated they had stopped publishing and promoting their book. But in 1996 Dr. Yamauchi learned that the dishonest duo had issued a 1995 book called “The Magog Invasion” which still had a substantial amount of the same plagiarism! (If Lindsey and Missler ever need hernia operations, I predict that the doctors will tell them not to lift anything for a long time!)
1994 – In 1996 it was revealed that Lindsey’s “Planet Earth – 2000 A.D. (1994) had an embarrassing amount of plagiarism of a Texe Marrs book titled “Mystery Mark of the New Age” (1988).
1995 – My book “The Rapture Plot” reveals the dishonesty in Darby’s reprinted works. It’s often hard to tell who wrote the footnotes and when. It’s easy to believe that the notes, and also unsigned phrases inside brackets within the text, were a devious attempt by someone (Darby? his editor?) to portray a Darby far more developed in pretrib thinking than he actually had been at the time. I found that some of the “additives” had been taken from Darby’s much later works, when he was more developed, and placed next to or inside his earliest works! One footnote by Darby’s editor, attached to Darby’s 1830 paper, actually stated that “it was not worth while either suppressing or changing” anything in this work! If his editor wasn’t open to such dishonesty, how can we explain such a statement?
Post-1995 – Thomas Ice’s article “Inventor of False Pre-Trib Rapture History” states that my book “The Rapture Plot” is “only one of the latest in a series of revisions of his original discourse….” And David Reagan in his article “The Origin of the Concept of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture” repeats Ice’s falsehood by claiming that I have republished my first book “over the years under several different titles.”
Although my book repeats a bit of the Macdonald origin of pretrib (for new readers), all of my books are packed with new material not found in my other works. For some clarification, “The Incredible Cover-Up” has photos of pertinent places in Ireland, Scotland, and England not found in my later books plus several chapters dealing with theological arguments; “The Great Rapture Hoax” quotes scholars throughout the Church Age, covers Scofield’s hidden side, a section on Powerscourt, the 1980 election, the Jupiter Effect, Gundry’s change, and more theological arguments; “The Rapture Plot” reveals for the first time the Great Evangelical Revisionism/Robbery and includes appendices on miscopying, plagiarism, etc.; and “The Three R’s” shows hypocritical evangelicals employing occultic beliefs they say they have long opposed!
So Thomas Ice etc. are twisting truth when they claim I am only a revisionist. Do they really think that my publishers DON’T know what I’ve previously written?
Re arguments, Google “Pretrib Rapture – Hidden Facts” and also obtain “The End Times Passover” and “Why Christians Will Suffer ‘Great Tribulation’ ” (AuthorHouse, 2006) by media personality Joe Ortiz.
1997 – For years Harvest House Publishers has owned and been republishing Lindsey’s book “There’s A New World Coming.” During the same time Lindsey has been peddling his reportedly “new” book “Apocalyse Code” (1997), much of which is word-for-word the same as the Harvest House book – and there’s no notice of “simultaneous publishing” in either book! Talk about pretrib greed!
1997 – This is the year I discovered that more than 50 pages of Dallas Seminary professor Merrill Unger’s book “Beyond the Crystal Ball” (Moody Press, 1973) constituted a colossal plagiarism of Lindsey’s “The Late Great Planet Earth” (1970). After Lindsey’s book came out, Unger had complained that Lindsey’s book had plagiarized his classroom lecture notes. It was evident that Unger felt that he too should cash in on his own lectures! (The detailed account of this Dallas Seminary dishonesty is revealed in my 1998 book “The Three R’s.”)
1998 – Tim LaHaye’s “Understanding the Last Days” (1998) plagiarized Lindsey’s “There’s A New World Coming” (1973).
1999 – More than 200 pages (out of 396 pages) in Lindsey’s 1999 book “Vanished Into Thin Air” are virtually carbon copies of pages in his 1983 book “The Rapture” – with no “updated” or “revised” notice included! Lindsey has done the same nervy thing with several of his books, something that has allowed him to live in million-dollar-plus homes and drive cars like Ferraris! (See my Google articles “Deceiving and Being Deceived” and “Thieves’ Marketing” for further evidence of this notably pretrib vice.)
2000 – A Jack Van Impe article “The Moment After” (2000) plagiarized Grant Jeffrey’s book “Final Warning” (1995).
2001 – Since 2001 my web article “Walvoord’s Posttrib ‘Varieties’ – Plus” has been exposing his devious muddying up of posttrib waters. In some of his books he invented four “distinct” and “contradictory” posttrib divisions, claiming that they are either “classic” or “semiclassic” or “futurist” or “dispensational” – distinctions that disappear when analyzed! His “futurist” group holds to a literal future tribulation and a literal millennium but doesn’t embrace “any day” imminency. But his “dispensational” group has the same non-imminency! Moreover, tribulational futurism is found in every group except the first one, and he somehow admitted that a literal millennium is in all four groups! On the other hand, it’s the pretribs who consistently disagree with each other over their chief points and subpoints – but somehow end up agreeing that there will be a pretrib rapture! (See my chapter “A House Divided” in my book “The Incredible Cover-Up.”)
2001 – Since my “Deceiving and Being Deceived” web item which exposed the claims for Pseudo-Ephraem” and “Morgan Edwards” as teachers of pretrib, there has been a piranha-like frenzy on the part of pretrib bodyguards and their duped groupies to “discover” almost anything before 1830 walking upright on two legs that seemed to have at least a remote hint of pretrib! (An exemplary poster boy for such pretrib practice is Grant Jeffrey. To get your money’s worth, Google “Wily Jeffrey.”)
FINALLY: Don’t take my word for any of the above. Read my 300-page book “The Rapture Plot” which has a jillion more documented details on the long-hidden but now-revealed history of the dishonest, 179-year-old, fringe-British-invented, American-merchandised-until-the-real-bad-stuff-happens pretribulation rapture fad. If this book of mine doesn’t “move” you, I will personally refund what you paid for it!