Understanding What He Taught about the End Times
ANDREAS J. KÖSTENBERGER, ALEXANDER E. STEWART & APOLLO MAKARA
Jesus and the Future: Understanding What He Taught about the End Times
© 2017 by Andreas J. Köstenberger, Alexander E. Stewart, and Apollo Makara
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We dedicate this book to our brothers and sisters in Christ who are suffering for their faith all over the world:
“Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.
After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.
To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
(1 Peter 5:6–11 NASB)
Introduction: Jesus and the Future
Part 1: Jesus’ Major Discourse about the Future: The Olivet Discourse
Chapter 1: Jesus’ Prophecy and the Disciples’ Questions
Chapter 2: Possible Signs, the Abomination of Desolation, and the Destruction of the City
Chapter 3: Cosmic Upheaval and the Coming of the Son of Man
Chapter 4: Concluding the Olivet Discourse
Part 2: Other Teachings of Jesus about the Future in the Gospels
Chapter 6: Growing Conflict, Rejection, and the Judgment of Jerusalem
Chapter 7: A Call to Patient Waiting for the Coming of the Son of Man
Chapter 8: Future Resurrection, Judgment, Reward, and Punishment
Chapter 9: Jesus and the Future in John’s Gospel
Appendix 1: Cosmic Upheaval in the Old Testament
Appendix 2: The Future at a Glance
Introduction: Jesus and the Future
Part 1: Jesus’ Major Discourse about the Future: The Olivet Discourse
Chapter 1: Jesus’ Prophecy and the Disciples’ Questions
The Main Interpretive Question
Chapter 2: Possible Signs, the Abomination of Desolation, ...
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About Jesus and the Future: Understanding What He Taught about the End TimesJesus was a prophet who often spoke about future events. Some readers apply all of Jesus’s teaching about the future to the distant future: his return, the future resurrection, and final judgment. Other readers contend that virtually everything Jesus taught about the future was fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. The authors conclude that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. As a prophet, Jesus spoke both about the near future events of AD 70 and the distant future events surrounding his second coming. The challenge lies in determining when he was speaking about near instead of distant future events. In Jesus and the Future, the authors examine everything Jesus said about future events as recorded in the four canonical Gospels. This includes the famous Olivet Discourse along with many other parables and sayings. The authors situate Jesus’s teaching in its original literary and 1st century Jewish and Greco-Roman context. Jesus and the Future is designed to discuss Jesus’ teaching about the end times in a way that is accessible, biblical-theological, exegetical, and devotional and spiritually-nurturing. Written with a scholar’s mind but a pastor’s heart, the book is geared to a popular audience interested in making sense of end-time phenomena and conflicting teachings on the end times. |
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