I am getting ready to study eschatology and have several books in my library and was wondering if was worth taking the extra time to read these titles.

The Parousia
Pauline Eschatology by Geerhardus Vos
The Last Days According to Jesus R.C SProul
The Bible and the Future by Hoekema
The Antichrist by A.W. Pink
The Millennium by Boettner
A Case for Amillennialism Riddlebarger
A Man of Sin Riddlebarger
When Shall These Things Be? Mathison

Dispensationalism Charles Ryrie Just Kidding

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Erick Bohndorf, Covenant Baptist Church, KS
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
The question for us today is, will we be like the majority of Israel and continue to look in fear at the giants in the land and urge our fellow Christians to be "realistic," or will we be like Joshua and Caleb and faithfully follow our king, trusting to fulfill every one of his promises completely?

Get stuff by Gentry because he comes from a scholastic angle.

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Pslam 71:20 [Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Great stuff...I've got most of those in my library too.

BUT...before you dive in, I super, dooper, totally, stongly recommend you read one very very important book first.

Biblical Hermeneutics by Milton S. Terry

And when your done with that get the supplemental book by him

Biblical Apocolyptics by Milton S. Terry


These may be hard to find as they were first published in the late 1800s...but they were required text books in seminaries for many years.

I've got a fascimile older copy, and some newer copies that I "think" I got at AmericanVision.org

AGAIN..these are a must read for any student of the bible, let alone when diving into apocolypics and prophecy.

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Shawn
Orthodox Presbyterian
Denver, Colorado

Open my eyes Lord, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. Psalm 119:18

Yes.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
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"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

Cannot more highly recommend Riddlebarger's work.

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church, Sewickley, PA
Candidate Under Care Pittsburgh Theological Seminary & Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary

“If the Church could be aroused to a deeper sense of the glory that awaits her, she would enter with a warmer spirit into the struggles that are before her.”-- J.H. Thornwell

Here is one that I thought was superb.

Promise of the Future
by Cornelius P. Venema

It does a great job explaining some historical understanding.

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"Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation."
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I have not read A Case for Amillennialism Riddlebarger. I have read the others. I recommend Hokema and Vos

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

REALLY..

I recommend it...but thought it was the weakest of those on the list.

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Shawn
Orthodox Presbyterian
Denver, Colorado

Open my eyes Lord, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. Psalm 119:18

I just underlined the ones I'd suggest with a quick note, Pink's work is free online and it's dispey.

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Feileadh Mor
The Orthodox Catechism

True. But it is an excellent review of Amillenial Eschatology.

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church, Sewickley, PA
Candidate Under Care Pittsburgh Theological Seminary & Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary

“If the Church could be aroused to a deeper sense of the glory that awaits her, she would enter with a warmer spirit into the struggles that are before her.”-- J.H. Thornwell

In my humble opinion, Geerhardus Vos is defintely the most important work on your list.

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Rev. Adam King
Minister without a call (WPCUS)
Stated Supply: Reformed Presbyterian Church
Sterling, KS

Pink denounced all of his dispy stuff. He wished it could all be burned.

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R. Martin Snyder
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"Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation."
William Symington

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and Hokema runs a close second...

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

Another recommendation:

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

A) I have already read Milton Terry's Biblical Hermeneutics but did not know he had one just on Apocalyptics.
B) I am already going to read Gentry's Before the Temple Fell and He Shall Have Dominion. I am going to try to supplement my eschatology training with some of these other books.
C) I have heard Vos is hard to read, is this true?
D) I never would have figured Pink to be a Dispy

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Erick Bohndorf, Covenant Baptist Church, KS
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
The question for us today is, will we be like the majority of Israel and continue to look in fear at the giants in the land and urge our fellow Christians to be "realistic," or will we be like Joshua and Caleb and faithfully follow our king, trusting to fulfill every one of his promises completely?

Vos is more of an academic read than a popular read, but he is understandable and it is well worth the effort!

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Rev. Adam King
Minister without a call (WPCUS)
Stated Supply: Reformed Presbyterian Church
Sterling, KS

Well, it's not easy...like reading Sproul, but not difficult like reading B. B. Warfield either. Vos is well worth the effort. Chapter Ten The Question of Chilliasm, In Paul was excellent.


Pink changed his position on eschatology in his later years.

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

Pastor King beat me to it!

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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"Whatever is laudable in our works proceeds from the grace of God."
-- John Calvin, Institutes III:xv.3.

"Our Lord God must be a good man, to be fond of worthless fellows. I cannot like them, and yet I, myself, am one."
-- Martin Luther, Table Talk

Isn't Milton S. Terry a full preterist? If so, he is confessionally out of bounds! (And biblically!)

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Nathan Eshelman
Grand Rapids, MI
First Reformed Presbyterian Church

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I would recommend...

The Bible and the Future - Hoekema
A Case for Amillennialism - Riddlebarger
He Shall Have Dominion - Gentry
A Conquered Kingdom -by our own Daniel Ritchie

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Larry Bray
Elder Elect - Reformed Presbyterian Church of Boothwyn, PCA
Boothwyn, PA - http://www.rpcb.org/

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I'm pretty certain Sproul uses quite a bit of Gentry in his book.

"The Puritan Hope" is a must read.

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Tony Felich
Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Overland Park, Kansas
www.redeemer-pca.org
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