“Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.” (Rev 7:3-4) Who are the 144,000? Bible prophecy enthusiasts have answered this question in different ways. For those who hold a literalist and futurist view of Revelation, this is usually an exact number of Jewish believers from each … Continue reading Who are the 144,000 of Revelation 7?
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Two Keys to Interpreting Revelation
Christians have always had a fascination with the Book of Revelation. There is no end of volumes in history trying to decipher the imagery and the timeline of events. Every generation has tried to line up the events in Revelation with the events in the headlines. Much of the ink given to this task has … Continue reading Two Keys to Interpreting Revelation
A Response to Robert Menzies’s “Pentecostal Eschatology: Why Amillennialism is a Better Fit.”
Robert Menzies’s 2022 book The End of History has stirred up many conversations around eschatology in the Assemblies of God. Unfortunately, his arguments in favor of replacing AG positions of premillennialism with his interpretation of amillennialism put him in the precarious position of being in direct contradiction to AG bylaws. The result was his unfortunate … Continue reading A Response to Robert Menzies’s “Pentecostal Eschatology: Why Amillennialism is a Better Fit.”
Who Will Be Left Behind?
I have heard there is a new Left Behind movie out in theaters. It has been several decades since Tim LaHaye's series fictionalizing the return of Christ captured the evangelical imagination. This latest movie focusing on the antichrist seems to be following the pattern of trying to dramatize teachings about the end times for the … Continue reading Who Will Be Left Behind?
Why You Don’t Have to Worry About the Mark of the Beast
In times like these, many Christians look to end times prophecy voices to try to make sense of world in which we live. This is illustrated in the shortage of coins in America in July, which has predictably triggered a new wave of speculation that this may be the signs of a new cashless society … Continue reading Why You Don’t Have to Worry About the Mark of the Beast
How Eschatology Shaped AG Social Ethics
This week I attended the annual meeting for the Society for Pentecostal Studies. It was a wonderful meeting. The theme this year was "Pentecostals and the Poor". This theme appealed to me because one of the questions my thesis attempts to answer is how Assemblies of God eschatology translated to how they engaged in social … Continue reading How Eschatology Shaped AG Social Ethics
Daniel D. Isgrigg 