Things to Come: A Study in Biblical EschatologyA comprehensive and accessible study of eschatology for anyone interested in the important subject of biblical prophecy. The Bible and its revelation about Jesus Christ's return is the one source of hope and confidence for the future in these dark days. Approximately one-fourth of the Bible was prophetic at the time it was written, meaning that a greater body of Scripture is devoted to the unfolding of God's plan than any other one subject. God, the architect of the ages, has seen fit to take us into His confidence concerning His great design. But until Things To Come was published, the treatment of biblical prophecy had been mainly either apologetic or expository, with prophetic themes being developed individually, apart from their relation to the whole revealed prophetic program. This methodology produces fragmentary and unrelated knowledge of the subject. In this monumental classic, Dr. Dwight Pentecost has synthesized the whole field of prophecy into a unified biblical doctrine, a systematic and complete biblical eschatology. He deftly handles many controversial topics, including a detailed presentation of premillennial eschatology. With nearly a quarter of a million copies sold, Things to Come has earned its place in the library of the pastor, the scholar, and the seminarian or Bible institute student. |
Contents
| 1 | |
THE HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION | 16 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 34 |
THE INTERPRETATION OF PROPHECY | 45 |
Rules for the interpretation of prophecy | 59 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 63 |
The importance of the Abrahamic covenant | 70 |
The eschatological implications of | 84 |
The person and ministry of the Beast the head | 332 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 340 |
THE JUDGMENTS OF THE TRIBULATION | 359 |
PROPHECIES RELATED TO | 370 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 374 |
Resultant Observations | 392 |
The time of the resurrections | 398 |
The resurrection of Israel | 407 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 95 |
THE NEW COVENANT | 116 |
PROPHECIES OF THE PRESENT | 129 |
A The relation of Christ to the ages | 130 |
The course of this present | 138 |
THE PARTIAL RAPTURE POSITION | 156 |
THE POSTTRIBULATION RAPTURE THEORY | 164 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 165 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 168 |
THE MIDTRIBULATION RAPTURE POSITION | 179 |
THE PRETRIBULATION RAPTURE THEORY | 193 |
The twentyfour elders | 207 |
U The times of the Gentiles | 213 |
THE EVENTS FOR THE CHURCH FOLLOWING | 219 |
The marriage of the Lamb | 226 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 229 |
THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH TO | 251 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 259 |
ISRAEL IN THE TRIBULATION | 275 |
The identity of the woman in Revelation 12 | 285 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 294 |
THE GENTILES IN THE TRIBULATION | 314 |
The powers aligned against the Roman Empire | 326 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 414 |
PROPHECIES OF THE MILLENNIUM | 427 |
The theocratic kingdom | 433 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 436 |
THE KINGDOM PROGRAM IN | 446 |
The presentation and rejection of the theocratic | 456 |
The theocratic kingdom offer withdrawn | 463 |
The theocratic kingdom reoffered to Israel | 472 |
MILLENNIUM | 476 |
Conditions existing within the millennium | 487 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 489 |
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED | 495 |
The subjects in the millennium | 503 |
WORSHIP IN THE MILLENNIUM | 512 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 517 |
THE RELATION BETWEEN LIVING | 532 |
The occupants of the heavenly Jerusalem | 539 |
PROPHECIES OF THE ETERNAL STATE | 547 |
The creation of the new heaven and new earth | 561 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 566 |
Life in the eternal city | 580 |
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