Armageddon Now!

By Wilson, Dwight

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Title:	Armageddon Now!
Author:	Wilson, Dwight
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Religion and Christian Theology Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: Important lessons applicable to interpretation today? that Dr. Wilson had offered in 1977. In late 1990, Walvoord revised his 1974 book, Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, and it sold over a million and a half copies - a million by February, 1991.2 It did so by rejecting Dr. Wilson?s warning: do not use sensational interpretations of Bible prophecy in order to sell books. If you do, you will look like a charlatan in retrospect, and you will also injure the reputation of Christ and His Church. But the lure of sensationalism was apparently too great. The latest dispensational feeding frenzy for prophecy books was in full force as the United States moved toward war in the Middle East in January, 1991. It was at that point that Walvoord publicly rejected. his earlier belief in the ?any-moment Rapture? doctrine. This was proof that he had abandoned traditional scholarly dispensationalism and had adopted the popdispensationalism of Hal Lindsey, Dave Hunt, and Constance Cumbey-what I like to call dispensensationalism. (His colleagues at Dallas Theological Seminary remained, as always, discreetly silent. They know exactly how their bread is buttered: by donations from laymen who thoroughly enjoy an occasional feeding frenzy.)...

Table of Contents
Contents Publisher's Preface by Gary North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Foreword (1991 Printing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2. Before Balfour and Bolsheviks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3. Armageddon-Almost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4. The Twenties Roar Faintly-Bear, Beast, and Young Lions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 5. Balfour Betrayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 6. Mobilizing for Armageddon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 7. The Century's Greatest Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 8. From Sinful Alliance to Christian Realism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 9. The Certainty of Survival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 10. Jerusalem! What Now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 11. Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Footnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Selected Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Scripture Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 General Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263