PMT 2013-045b Jeffrey K. Boer
What are the important things to look for in a church? If you talk to ten different people, you’ll get eleven different answers. Continue reading
Author Archives: Kenneth Gentry
THE RESTRAINER AND THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS
PMT 2013-044 by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.
This is my fourth and final installment (for the time being!) on Paul’s Man of Lawlessness. Though it is a difficult passage, it serves as a foundation stone to peculiar dispensational beliefs involving the rebuilt temple and the re-institution of animal sacrifices. I have been showing, however, that this passage is dealing with first century concerns, not last century ones. We will see this further in today’s installment.
The Restrainer at Work
In 2Th. 2:7 we read: “for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.” When Paul writes 2 Thessalonians 2, he is under the reign of Claudius Caesar. In this statement he even seems to employ a word play on Claudius’ name. Let’s see how this is so. Continue reading
Beheadings in Islamic History
PMT 2013-044b by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.
In my previous blog article I began a two-part study on the horrible phenomenon of Islamic beheadings. Continue reading
IDENTIFYING THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS
PMT 2013-043 by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.
In this blog article I will provide my third installment of my study on Paul’s Man of Lawlessness. In this study I will show the case for the Man of Lawlessness being . . . Nero Caesar.
Paul shows a deep concern regarding the deception (2Th 2:3a). To avoid the deception and to clarify the true beginning of the Day of the Lord upon Jerusalem, Paul informs them that “that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition” (2:3). Before they can say the Day of the Lord “is come,” then, they must witness first (see RSV) the falling away and the revelation of the man of lawlessness, who is also called “the son of perdition.” (These do not necessarily occur in the chronological order presented, as even dispensationalists admit.1 Verse nine is clearly out of order and should occur in the midst of verse eight, if strict chronology were important.) Continue reading
Beheadings In the World Today
PMT 2013-043b Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., Th.D.
In the past few years we have recoiled in horror at the beheadings of innocent civilians by Muslim jihadists in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Continue reading
MAN OF LAWLESSNESS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
PMT 2013-042 by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.
In my previous blog I began a brief analysis of one of Paul’s most difficult passage. I noted widespread statements by church fathers and contemporary scholars confessing its difficulty. Then I noted that despite this, dispensationalism employs this passage as one of its foundations for its distinctive temple-theology. A theology built on difficult passages is not a stable system. Continue reading
The Obligation to Church Membership
PMT 2013-042b by Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.
This is the second and final article in response to a reader who responded to our blog article “Why Must We Join the Church?” (PMT 2013-036b Dr. Jeffrey K. Boer). Continue reading
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