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The Climax of Biblical Prophecy: A Guide to Interpreting Revelation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Eschatology, the study of future things, is too often a neglected topic in theological and personal study. The doctrines of God the Father, Christ, sin, and salvation tend to push it into the background. But eschatology is our window into God’s plans for the future, the end goal of many doctrines. God thought these future things so important that he devoted an entire book to the topic and gave it...

devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it” (Obad. 18), the context neither requires nor encourages a hyperbolic interpretation. The evidence from Old Testament prophecy is that the futurist has not overstated his case or made up a convenient or extreme interpretation of “soon” and “near” in Revelation. These terms have a long-standing meaning of imminence when connected with prophecy, the future, and divine judgment. The implications
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