Eschatology

Background Although historicism has been the official position of the Seventh-day Adventist church, more recently some Adventists have started to entertain futurism. Futurism, in contrast to historicism, does not allow for a fulfillment of apocalyptic prophecy throughout the centuries and millenn...

Too often as Adventists, we skip over the early chapters of Daniel and Revelation in order to get to the “more important parts” when in fact these early chapters are foundational in understanding how to be ready for the final events, which seem closer now than ever before, with governments toppl...

In view of the current emphasis on revival and reformation, it is useful for us to ask what role these elements have with respect to our Adventist understanding of last-day events as revealed in the Bible and the writings of Ellen White. Within the canon of Scripture, the book of Revelation gives...

Jon Paulien, dean of the School of Religion at Loma Linda University, has recently published a number of books. The volume that we are going to review briefly is an interesting and important book dealing with the concept of Armageddon in John’s Apocalypse. The book consists of twelve chapters and...

The biblical message confronts contemporary minds with an intriguing concept of true human identity: a speck of dust carved into God’s image, a blade of grass cherished as the apple of His eye (Deuteronomy 32:10). Defacement of that image, and withering of that blade matters to God. Consequently,...

Blaise Pascal, supposedly, stated that all he knew was that we would die soon. Indeed nothing in human life is ascertain as death. However, death is not an end in itself (John 3:16). There is a resurrection. Some people claim that the concept of a resurrection is clearly unacceptable and unbeliev...

The eyes of a young man are burning like coals. Long flames come out of his ears. He hardly can breathe. When he opens his mouth blazing fire rolls out of it. The blood is boiling in his veins. The brain is boiling and bubbling in his head. The marrow is boiling in his bones, and yet he is consci...

“Is death necessary?“, asked biologist G. R. Taylor and stated that in 1968 in the USA alone more than a thousand teams of scientists were working on the issue of growing old and the problem of death. Some people are frozen at their death. They want to be revived as soon as a cure for their disea...

The Remnant in Contemporary Adventist Thinking I. Introduction The concept of the remnant is very dear to Adventists and has played a significant role in our self-understanding, in our mission and in our message. There is an almost unconscious feeling among us that if we lose the idea of the remn...