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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003399" TEXT="#080000" background="040c8c00erkjxk.jpg"> <div> <B>By His Grace and for His Glory!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near.</B></div> <div> <B>Revelation 1:3</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <IMG SRC="148f8480.jpg" border=0 width="504" height="72" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Restoration Ministries"><U><B>Home</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meetings"><U><B>Meetings</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U><B>About Us</B></U></A><B> | </B><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A><B> | </B><A 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HREF="id214.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Forcing Fulfillment of Prophecies</B></U></A> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Dwight responds with some excellent insights to Timothy Kings comments on "Questions About Israel."</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Trevor Chandler</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.hastenthelight.org.nz/articles/42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hastenthelight.org.nz/article"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Modern Israel in Prophecy</B></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Mr. Chandler looks at the relationship between biblical Israel and the modern state of Israel.</B></FONT>  </div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dan Delagrave</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id200.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Delagrave Silly"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">At All Silly Costs: How Dispensationalists Confuse "This Generation"</B></U></A><B>  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Dan examines the dispensationalist interpretation of "this generation" in Matthew 24:34.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id193.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Delagrave Gap Doctrine"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Destroying the Gap Doctrine</B></U></A><B> </B> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Dan offers a brief editorial on the gap that dipensationalists place between the 69th and 70th week of Daniel.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id204.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Delagrave Last Days"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Last Days</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>  Dan examines the biblical concept of "the last days."  Have the "last days" been going on for 2000 years?</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id185.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Delagrave Gentiles"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Times of the Gentiles</B></U></A><B>   </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>What does the Bible mean by the "Times of the Gentiles?"  Dan looks at this in its biblical and historical contexts.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id183.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Delagrave Wrath"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The  Wrath . . . to Come?</B></U></A><B>   </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Dan examines the biblical statements concerning "the wrath to come;" are we still looking for that wrath, or has it already taken place?</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Gary DeMar</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id134.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How Many Temples"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">How Many Temples Are Too Many?</B></U></A><B>  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Much of modern end times teachings is looking forward to another Jewish temple being rebuilt in Israel.  However, we must ask: "Does the Bible itself teach such a rebuilding?"</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id136.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Current Events"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reading the Bible Through the Lens of Current Events</B></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Most modern books on prophecy rely less on understanding the Scriptures than on current headlines.  Is this right or does it lead folks astray?</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="id126.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The (After the Slaughter) Remnant"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The (After the Slaughter) Remnant</B></U></A></FONT>  <B>Many ministries, fueled by modern end-times theology, are helping Jews to immigrate to Israel .   The fervor is popularized by the best-selling works of Tim Lahaye and Hal Lindsey.  But if we examine these popular views, are we really doing our Jewish friends a favor?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sam Frost</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id103.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sam Frost on 2 Peter 3:113"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">2 Peter 3:1-13</B></U></A><B>  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>What Sam does for Matthew 16:27-28, he now does for 2 Peter 3:1-13.  Who are the scoffers and what about the delay of His coming and the destruction of heaven and earth?</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="id120.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Weeds Among the Wheat"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Matthew 13:24-30, 37-43</B></U></A></FONT>  <B>Sam Frost examines the "Parable of the Weeds Among the Wheat" in light of Jesus' teaching on His coming and the end of the age</B>.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id100.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sam Frost on Matthew 16:2728"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Matthew 16:27-28</B></U></A><B>  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Sam Frost looks at the details of this passage in order to bring understanding to the "timing" of Christ's coming. Sam is outstanding in his attention to details.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id147.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Studies in Eschatology 1"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Studies in Preterism (Part One)</B></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>How does this radical view of the end times stack up to the more "orthodox" millennial views?  Sam compares Ezekiel's and John's respective visions of the temple.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id181.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Frost Preterism Deux"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Studies in Preterism (Part Two)</B></U></A>   <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Sam looks in greater detail about the implications of fulfilled eschatology, particularly as it regards the gospel of redemption.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id138.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Parables 2"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Wedding Feast, Talents, Ten Virgins and Other</B></U></A><A HREF="id138.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Parables 2"><U><B> Parables</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>The second in Sam's series on the parables.  He looks at certain parables and their connection with God's covenant relationship with Israel and their failure to continue in it.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Timothy King</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id191.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="King Hinn Temple"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Hinn-diana Jones and the Temple to Come</B></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Benny Hinn and a host of evangelicals are in support of a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem.  Can this be good for the cause of the gospel?</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id153.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SotS 1"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Eschatology and Salvation</B></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Answering Larry Hall's article "The Preterist Heresy," I address Larry's charges that preterists (I assume that includes me) are not truly Christian.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"</B><A HREF="id156.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hated Creeds"><U><B>Those Hated Creeds!</B></U></A><B>"  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Here, I address Larry's rather distorted characterization of preterist's attitude toward the creeds.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id159.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SotS 3"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Date of Revelation</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> I deal with Larry's arguments that Revelation was written well after the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id160.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SotS 4"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Acts 1:11 -- A Physical Coming?</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF6666" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Here I answer Larry Hall's claim that this text asserts that Jesus' second coming will be bodily and physical.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id170.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SotS 5"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Resurrection Body of Jesus</B></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Larry accuses preterists of violating orthodoxy because of their stance on the resurrection.  </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id213.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Israel Questions"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Questions About Israel</B></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Tim makes his contribution to the Preterist Symposium on the question of modern Israel and it's significance in biblical history and modern politics.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id201.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="King Preterism Following"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Why Preterism is Gaining a Following</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Just a few thoughts on why, I think, that fulfilled eschatology is gaining so much popularity today.  </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Don K. Preston</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id158.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Preston Time"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Time's Almost Up!</B></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>We have witnessed a whole host of modern date-setters predicting the end.  Are they right?  They haven't been so far.  Don examines this trend with insights from the Scriptures.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Greg Rasaka</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id157.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rasaka New Doctrine"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A New Doctrine?</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>The charge has been made against preterism that the writings of the early church are silent regarding preterism.  Greg quotes from some of these early sources who sound quite preterist.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"</B><A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Every Eye"><U><B>Every Eye Will See Him</B></U></A><B>"  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Is the coming of Jesus to happen only if it comes on a global scale, or is there a more localized meaning to these words?</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Heaven and Earth"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Heaven and Earth</B></U></A><B> </B></FONT><B>Are we to </B><I><B>always</B></I><B> understand the Bible's use of "heaven and earth" as literal, or do the Scriptures sometimes use this phrase in reference to something else?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Stephen R. Sizer</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.virginiawater.co.uk/christchurch/articles/hallindsey.HTM" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.virginiawater.co.uk/christchu"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Hal Lindsey: The Father of Apocalyptic Christian Zionism</B></U></A><B>   </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>A critical analysis of the apocalyptic writings and teachings of Hal Lindsey.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dale Tooley</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.hastenthelight.org.nz/articles/15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hastenthelight.org.nz/article"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">New Jerusalem and the Household of God</B></U></A><B>  </B>Mr. Tooley looks as the <I>spiritual</I> nature of the New Jerusalem.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Gerry W. Webb</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id161.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Webb Jeffreys"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Date-Suggesting and Grant R. Jeffrey</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Gerry Webb looks at some of the failed prophecies of pop-eschatology writer Grant Jeffrey.  Why aren't the men making these failed predictions being called to account?</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id162.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Webb Israel"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">God's Judgment and the End of Israel as a Special Nation</B></U></A><B>  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Gerry examines to Scriptures to see if the modern nation of Israel plays a part in the unfolding of biblical prophecy.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id186.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Webb Dispensationalism"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Implications of Dispensationalism</B></U></A><B>  </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Gerry examines the Dispensationalism of Scofield and others, considering its implications for doctrine and daily living.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Jon Zens</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id192.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Zens Burden"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Burdened about Prophecy Fever</B></U></A>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Jon expresses his thoughts on the current trend of "end times lottery" -- i.e., who's got the winning number on the day Jesus will come?  </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id210.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Zens Babylon"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Dialogue on "Is America Babylon</B></U></A><B>?"</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> </B><B>Jon has an e-mail dialogue with David Dyer on the queston of whether America is the "Babylon" in the book of Revelation.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id146.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prophets or Profiteers"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b70118ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Prophets or Profiteers?</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> Billed as: "A Challenge to Those Who Tarnish the Gospel With Their Doomsday Dogmatism -- How They Mislead the Saints and Often Get Rich in the Process"</B></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>