Before Jerusalem Fell

Book Id: WPLBN0000697734
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Before Jerusalem Fell
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Language:	English
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Religion and Christian Theology Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: If we do not understand the historical context (?with text?), we will have trouble understanding the text itself. If we fail to understand both text and context, we risk misapplying the text?s message in our lives. In the case of no other book of the New Testament has an error in dating led to more misinterpretations and misapplications than the Book of Revelation. Third, there is no doubt that the intellectual attack on the integrity of the Bible?s manuscripts has been the most important single strategy of covenant-breaking modern Bible scholars. I refer here to the academic specialty known as higher criticism of the Bible. A large part of this attack involves the dating of the Bible?s original texts. The presupposition of all higher critics of the Bible is that the biblical texts, especially the prophetic texts, could not possibly have been written at the time that the texts insist that they were written. To admit that they were written when the texts say that they were written would be to admit that- mortals, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, can accurately predict. This would destroy the most cherished assumption of the humanist: the sovereignty of man. If this ability to forecast the future actually exists, the future is not only known to the revealer, it is foreordained by something beyond man?s power to alter. This points clearly to the absolute sovereignty of God, and the humanist rejects this doctrine with all his heart.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publisher?s Preface by Gary North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ix Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...xvii PART I: PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS l. Revelation Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...3 2. The Approach to the Question of Dating . . . . . . . . 17 PART II: THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE 3. Introduction to the External Evidence . . . . . . . . . 41 4. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 5. Clement of Alexandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...68 6. Additional External Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 PART III: THE INTERNAL EVIDENCE 7. The Role of Internal Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 8. The Theme of Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 9. The Temporal Expectation of the Author . . . . . . . . 133 10. The Identity of the Sixth King . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 11. The Contemporary Integrity of the Temple . . . . . . . 165 12. The Role of Nero Caesar.. . . . . . . . . . . . ...193 13. The Role of Jewish Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 14. The Looming Jewish War... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 PART IV: ALLEGED DOMITIANIC EVIDENCES EXAMINED 15. Introduction to Domitianic Evidences . . . . . . . . . . 259 16. The Role of Emperor Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 17. The Persecution of Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 18. The Nero Redivivus Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...300 19. The Condition of the Seven Churches . . . . . . . . . . 318