Protestant Reformed Eschatology

[AV1611]

Have you read any of their work on eschatology? What do you think of it?

Behold He Cometh!
A Study in Eschatology
The Antichrist
The Mark of the Beast
The Millennium Period
The Antichrist
The Kingdom of God

 

[RamistThomist]

Engelsma is okay when he just does basic things. He is out of his league--usually--when he tries to critique others.

As to Reformed eschatology in general: postmillennialism, amillennialism, and historic premillennialism are acceptable.

http://www.beretta-online.com/articles/theology/engelsma1.html

Engelsma rejects the teaching of the Reformed Confessions further when he claims that it is proof that the everlasting future life has nothing to do with the soul’s immortality to point out that the damned will go to hell and suffer forever, even though they are not immortal. But the Belgic Confession says precisely the opposite, saying that the lost “shall be made immortal but only to be tormented in the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” I say this not to defend the Reformed Confessions, but only to point out that Engelsma seems to be having it both ways, in many places insisting that nobody who differs from them should minister in Reformed Churches, but rejecting their teaching outright when it comes into conflict with his own.

In short, Engelsma must give up his loyalty to the Reformed confession, or he must give up his view of the first resurrection. This is because the Reformed confessions teach that the soul is immortal and never dies (hence ruling out the need for resurrection of the soul). Now, it may be that he would be willing to reject the Reformed confessions, but this means he is then put in the position of having to show that Scripture teaches that when the body dies, an invisible event occurs that can be called resurrection (and of course he cannot appeal to Revelation 20 at this point, since that would be begging the question