JM
Puritan Board Doctor
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I’ve never studied this issue of the dating the Book of Revelation in great detail before, just read commentaries and Revelation intro’s from my Bibles [28 of them] that seem to all make the case for the latter date of around 95AD.
What are a few of the reasons you reject or agree with this date?
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Irenaeus wasn't the only church father who held to the late date - Eusebius and Origen also held to the late date of Revelation. Polycarp - the bishop of Smyrna - said the church at Smyrna wasn't in existence during Paul's ministry. That would be a problem for an early date of Revelation, since Smyrna is one of the seven churches addressed in the book. Laodicea was devastated by an earthquake in AD 60. It took 25 years to rebuild it, and the statements concerning Laodicea in Revelation fit much better in the late date.
I actually have this. What a wonderful book. I have not finished it yet. Looking up some history on Gentry, I found out he went to Tennessee Temple, a local Baptist College here in Chattanooga back in the day.
John A. T. Robinson, in Redating the New Testament, also agrees with a Pre 70 date for all the NT....
....and he is less suspicious of having a prior theological ax to grind
(i.e. Gentry MUST believe in a pre 70 date or else the rest of his writings are toast...therefore, I have always has a hard time taking his views without a grain of salt).
Still, Gentry must prove the pre 70 date or this does deflate MOST of the rest of his theology. If he wrote this book first - it was certainly a fine choice for a first book, seeing that most of his later work would suffer very much if this one critical point were disproved.
For what it's worth, Before Jerusalem Fell was actually Gentry's dissertation for Whitefield Theological Seminary before it was a book if I remember correctly.
Still, Gentry must prove the pre 70 date or this does deflate MOST of the rest of his theology. If he wrote this book first - it was certainly a fine choice for a first book, seeing that most of his later work would suffer very much if this one critical point were disproved.
I dl'd that book a while ago. How in the world can anyone read that much writing on sreen? My eyes would glow for days if I tried to read that much on the screen. Any suggestions?