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The founder of the Calvary Chapel system, Chuck Smith, published the book End Times in 1979. On the jacket of his book, Smith is called a "well known Bible scholar and prophecy teacher". In the book he wrote: As we look at the world scene today, it would appear that the coming of the Lord is very, very, close. Yet, we do not know when it will be.
Between 1831 and 1844, on the basis of his study of the Bible, and particularly the prophecy of Daniel 8:14 [5] —"Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"—William Miller, a rural New York farmer and Baptist lay preacher, predicted and preached the return of Jesus Christ to the earth.
There are two kinds of prophecy in the Bible. One is Classical (or typical) prophecy which commonly deals with immediate events or issues. An example of this is Belshazzar's feast. Daniel 5 tells how Belshazzar holds a great feast and a hand appears and prophetically writes on the wall that his kingdom will be given to the Medes and the Persians.
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse.
Clavis Apocalyptica (1627), a commentary on The Apocalypse by Joseph Mede. [83] Anacrisis Apocalypseos (1705), a commentary on The Apocalypse by Campegius Vitringa. [84] Commentary on the Revelation of St. John (1720), a commentary on The Apocalypse by Charles Daubuz. [85] The Signs of the Times (1832), a commentary on The Apocalypse by Rev. Dr ...
This is an outline of commentaries and commentators.Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible. The article includes discussion of the Targums, Mishna, and Talmuds, which are not regarded as Bible commentaries in the modern sense of the word, but which provide the foundation for later commentary.
Here the Bible is seen as a unique witness to the people and deeds that do make up the Word of God. However, it is a wholly human witness. [93] All books of the Bible were written by human beings. Thus, whether the Bible is—in whole or in part [94] —the Word of God is not clear. However, some argue that the Bible can still be construed as ...
The Apocalypse of Adam is a Sethian Gnostic apocalyptic writing. [1] [2] It is the fifth tractate in Codex V of the Nag Hammadi library, [2] [3] transcribed in Coptic. [4]The date of the original work has been a point of scholarly contention because the writing lacks Christian themes [1] and other explicit allusions. [5]
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