Introduction In this last post on the dating of Revelation, I want to lay out some ancillary considerations that have helped land me on the early date. These are a mash-up of arguments I have read along with some of my own observations. None of these in itself is a nail in the coffin or … Continue reading A Small Matter Of Thirty Years, Part 4: Other Considerations
Author: Tim Constant
A Small Matter Of Thirty Years, Part 3: Internal Evidence
Introduction In the previous post, we looked at the external evidence for the dating of Revelation in Kenneth Gentry's book Before Jerusalem Fell. I finished with Gentry's conclusion of an early date, while opining to myself that it seemed to favor the late date, if only by a hair. It seemed as though several of … Continue reading A Small Matter Of Thirty Years, Part 3: Internal Evidence
A Small Matter Of Thirty Years, Part 2: External Evidence
Introduction In the first installment, I briefly made a case for why the dating of the Revelation of John is important. Here I want to look at the external evidence to see where it points. Again, I will be reviewing Kenneth Gentry's book Before Jerusalem Fell as my primary source and supplementing various sources for … Continue reading A Small Matter Of Thirty Years, Part 2: External Evidence
A Small Matter Of Thirty Years, Part 1
Disclaimer About two thousand years ago, a man wrote a letter. That 'about' ought to satisfy most people; any date more specific given the distance between us in 2023 and whatever year it was 'about' two thousand years ago is negligible. But this letter is so important, and has such far-reaching consequences, that we need … Continue reading A Small Matter Of Thirty Years, Part 1
Modesty Part 3: The Handmaiden
Introduction In Part 1 of Modesty, I retold the lie that modesty is a prudish condom to protect men from the bewitching beauty of women. Part 2 was a vignette describing an interaction with the personification of Beauty and Truth to begin exploring the idea of Beauty's objectivity. This post will be the essay companion … Continue reading Modesty Part 3: The Handmaiden
Abide or Die
Juxtaposition is meant to be jarring. Tossing two unlike things together sharpens the distinction of each. Jesus employed this literary tool often: the greatest will be the least, to live you must die, to lose your life is to save it. My favorite: Abide or die. If anyone does not abide in me he is … Continue reading Abide or Die
Psalm 131
O LORD, my heart is not lifted up;my eyes are not raised too high;I do not occupy myself with thingstoo great and too marvelous for me.2But I have calmed and quieted my soul,like a weaned child with its mother;like a weaned child is my soul within me.O Israel, hope in the LORDfrom this time forth and forevermore. … Continue reading Psalm 131
The Beginning Of Seeking
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. - Hebrews 11:6 The beginning of all our seeking is that God has sought us in Jesus Christ, and so we have done for ever with: ‘Oh! that … Continue reading The Beginning Of Seeking
Modesty, Part 2: The Heart’s Truth
It's been a while. If you need a refresher, Modesty, Part 1: Beauty's Condom is here. You find yourself in a bustling city, tucked in one of those pouches of manicured nature in a quad somewhere in the Upper West Side. The quad is walled in on three sides with brick buildings chewed by a … Continue reading Modesty, Part 2: The Heart’s Truth
Its About Time
Introduction When I look at the menu options for the age of the universe, I will order the young earth every time. The atheistic, old earth model of 4.7 billion years has a host of associated moral problems. Even if scientists think they have an explanation for all the phenomena, which they don’t, it is … Continue reading Its About Time
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