Erick Read The End Of The Book
Being nice or civil is now a sign of weakness. Having friends across the aisle is too. We can’t turn the other cheek or love our neighbors if they disagree with us. Loving our neighbors who are gay now...
View ArticleHeidelcast 207—What Must A Christian Believe? (23): Life Eternal
This is the 23rd and final episode in the series, What Must A Christian Believe? In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we have reached the twelfth article, “life eternal.” The...
View ArticleAn Interesting Biographical Note On One Man’s Exodus From The TheoRecon Movement
Jacob Aitken, sometime author at the HB, left the TheoRecon movement. What is that? TheoRecon is a shorthand word I coined (as far as I know) for the theonomic-Christian reconstruction movement. Now...
View ArticleAll Over-Realized Eschatologies Are Attempts To Change The Rules Of The Game
Some years ago, while explaining Heidelberg Catechism 114, on the moral law, I wrote, “Paul was not a Gnostic, a Valentinian, an Anabaptist, a Familist, nor an Antinomian. He was a sinner saved and...
View ArticleHeidelcast 216: Our Father (6): “Your Kingdom Come”
In this episode we answer a Heideltext and an email. The first is a question about how it is that the Baptists (from a Reformed perspective) confuse the divine decree with the external administration...
View ArticleHeidelcast 220: Our Father (10): “Lead Us Not Into Temptation” (Plus Dr Clark...
In this episode Dr Clark answers Heidelmail from Jackson about whether the American Revolution was just, from Coral about whether it is just social-justice warriors who are self-righteous, from Andrew...
View ArticleSabbath Perspective
Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, And in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, And on his head...
View ArticleKeele: The Kingdom Of God In This Life Is Paradoxical
And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.” (Luke 13:20-21) A similar dynamic is...
View ArticleThe Polish Reformed And Lutherans Condemned The Doctrine Of A Future Earthly...
We also censure and reject all Jewish fables and those of present-day Anabaptists who expect some golden age here on earth before the day of judgment, so that faithful people should inherit all the...
View ArticleCalvin Against The Chiliasts
But Satan has not only befuddled men’s senses to make them bury with the corpses the memory of resurrection; he has also attempted to corrupt this part of the doctrine with various falsifications that...
View ArticleThe Lutherans Condemn The “Jewish Dream” Of A Future Earthly Golden Age...
The Gospel forbids private revenge, and Christ stresses this so often lest the apostles think that they should usurp the government from those who hold it, as in the Jewish dream of the messianic...
View ArticleThe New Covenant In My Blood (Luke 22:20) (part 3)
So much for the picture of what is happening at the Supper. Now for its meaning. First, what it means for Christ himself: watch now the face of the Savior as he institutes the New Covenant in his...
View ArticleMurray: Because He Suffered, We Enter Glory
“If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him” is the condition upon which the attainment of the inheritance is contingent (cf. vs. 9). There is no sharing in Christ’s glory...
View ArticleBaugh: Living In The “Last Hour”
Given the abundant parallels to the construction in 1 John 2:8—with just a few of the ones I found given above—we can make two preliminary conclusions on its syntax that then impact the overall...
View ArticleMurray: We Don’t Guess The Decree, We Follow The Word
God has mercy on whom he wills and whom he wills he hardens. Some are vessels for wrath, others for mercy. And ultimate destiny is envisioned in destruction and glory. But this differentiation is God’s...
View ArticleJesus’ Theology Of The Cross: Blessed Are The Persecuted
11Blessed are you whenever they mock you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you, lying against you. 12Rejoice and exult because your reward is great in heaven. For thus they...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Strimple Contra Postmillennialism (6)
Strimple questions Gentry's history of postmillennialism. Continue reading →
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Strimple Contra Postmillennialism (4)
You should hear Bob Strimple's critique of postmillennialism (and the preterist reading of Matthew 24 and the Revelation). Continue reading →
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Berkhof Contra Postmillennialism (1)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Bavinck Contra Postmillennialism (2)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View ArticleTheonomy Imposes An Artificial Worldview
Those who have been swept up with various forms of theonomy (or Christian Nationalism) should reflect deeply on the redemptive-historical role of the Old Covenant civil law as well as on how the...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Venema Contra Postmillennialism (10)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Venema Contra Postmillennialism (9)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View ArticleRevisiting Harold Camping’s End Of The World
Wild eschatological interpretations and predictions of Christ’s return have always been a problem since Christ’s first coming, and I fully expect another great prediction of the end of the world will...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Venema Contra Postmillennialism (8)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Venema Contra Postmillennialism (7)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Venema Contra Postmillennialism (6)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Venema Contra Postmillennialism (5)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Venema Contra Postmillennialism (3)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View Article“Tribulation” And The Lord’s Return
I am often asked whether or not the “tribulation” is a seven year period which immediately precedes the second coming of Jesus Christ, or is it the entire period of time between Christ’s first and...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Venema Contra Postmillennialism (2)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Venema Contra Postmillennialism (1)
These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Kim Riddlebarger Contra Postmillennialism (3)
Kim Riddlebarger concludes his critique of postmillennialism. Continue reading →
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Riddlebarger Contra Postmillennialism (2)
Kim Riddlebarger continues his critique of postmillennialism. Continue reading →
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Kim Riddlebarger Contra Postmillennialism (1)
Kim Riddlebarger critiques postmillennialism. Continue reading →
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Anthony Hoekema Contra Postmillennialism (4)
Anthony Hoekema concludes his critique of postmillennialism. Continue reading →
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Anthony Hoekema Contra Postmillennialism (3)
Anthony Hoekema continues his critique of postmillennialism. Continue reading →
View ArticleSo You Say You Want A Revolution?
In the wake of the disaster that was World War I, in which about 8.5 million military personnel died and an even greater number of civilians died, there developed in this country and in Europe a desire...
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Anthony Hoekema Contra Postmillennialism (2)
Anthony Hoekema continues his critique of postmillennialism. Continue reading →
View ArticleHeidelminicast: Anthony Hoekema Contra Postmillennialism (1)
Anthony Hoekema begins his critique of postmillennialism. Continue reading →
View ArticleWhy Do Good Men Approve Of Bad Texts?
One of the more interesting questions we face each semester arises when we get to the Shepherd of Hermas, which was a wildly popular but almost certainly heretical text from (probably) the mid to...
View ArticlePaul On This Present Age And “The Final Consummation”
The heart of New Testament eschatology is not the hope of a millennial age in which this present “evil” age is progressively transformed into some sort of earthly utopia either before or after Christ...
View ArticleFive Reasons To Reject A Golden Age Before The Return Of Christ
1. Belief in a Golden Age destroys faith, because it encourages Christians to walk by sight (cp. 2 Cor 5:7). Let me explain. The victory that Christ has achieved through his death and resurrection in...
View ArticleBerkhof: Objections To Postmillennialism
Objections to Postmillennialism. There are some very serious objections to the Postmillennial theory. a. The fundamental idea of the doctrine, that the whole world will gradually be won for Christ,...
View ArticleBauckham On Eschatological Expectation
The ideas of the 12th-century abbot Joachim inspired a new form of eschatological expectation which in the later Middle Ages and the 16th century was the major alternative to the Augustinian view....
View ArticleBerkhof On The Millennium
At the time of the Reformation the doctrine of the millennium was rejected by the Protestant Churches, but revived in some of the sects, such as that of the more fanatical Anabaptists, and that of the...
View ArticleStop Saying That Amillennialism Is “Pessimistic” But Postmillennialism Is...
This is a classic case of begging the question, i.e., assuming what has to be proved. People regularly say that amillennialism is “pessimistic” but postmillennialism is “optimistic.” Who is pessimistic...
View ArticlePost-Millennialism And The Promise Of “Victory”
Nothing has been more characteristic of current post-millennialism than its emphasis on the kingship of the ascended Christ; nothing fires the Postmil vision more than that reality. Yet it is just this...
View ArticleDr Clark Talks With Chris Gordon About Israel, Prophecy, And Replacement...
Dr Clark talks with AGR's Chris Gordon about Israel, prophecy, and "replacement theology." Continue reading →
View ArticleMurray: We Don’t Peek Behind The Curtain
God has mercy on whom he wills and whom he wills he hardens. Some are vessels for wrath, others for mercy. And ultimate destiny is envisioned in destruction and glory. But this differentiation is God’s...
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