Announcement: JMAT and CDH

Announcement: JMAT and CDH

Dr. Mike Stallard has announced that The Journal of Ministry and Theology (JMAT) will continue under the direction of the Council on Dispensational Hermeneutics. There will be a time of transition as details are finalized. Further announcements will follow. The...

Hermeneutics Consistency

I am struck by the fact that many Christians do not read their Bible consistently.  That is, they have a dual hermeneutic – one for the New Testament, but a different one for the Old Testament. In particular, when many interpreters come to passages about the...

Why Does God Delay? Answer #3

The third response to why God delays the Second Coming is that God is patient or longsuffering (2 Peter 3:9). In particular, this patience is directed toward sinners having a chance to come to God, who is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to...

Why Does God Delay? Answer #2

In 2 Peter 3, the second answer to those who mock the fact that there appears to be a delay in the Second Coming is that God is not bound by time like you and me (vv. 8-9). This truth is stated in two ways. First, “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a...

Why Does God Delay? Answer #1

In John 14:3, Jesus told his disciples, “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (NKJV). Near the end of the Bible, Jesus promises, “Surely I am coming quickly” (Rev. 22:20). Thus,...