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THE LAST DAYS ACCORDING TO JESUS: When Did Jesus Say He Would Return?
R.C. SPROUL
Now in paperback, this book focuses on what Jesus himself taught about the last days and the timing of his return. R.C. Sproul defends the trustworthiness of Jesus' teachings and addresses these questions: Who is the antichrist? When is the resurrection? When is the millennium?
"A must read.... You owe it to the church and to yourself to spend time interacting with Sproul on these critical questions." --New Horizons
"A valuable understanding of what the Bible teaches about the last days." --The Presbyterian Layman
"An accessible glimpse into territory that is unfamiliar to many." --Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
"A valuable analysis of higher critical theories regarding the Scriptures, especially the eschatological teaching of Jesus." --Bibliotheca Sacra
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 11
1. What Did Jesus Teach on Mount Olivet? 33
2. What “Generation” Will Witness the End? 57
3. What “Age” Was about to End? 79
4. What Did Paul Teach in His Letters? 103
5. What about the Destruction of Jerusalem? 123
6. What Did John Teach in Revelation? 141
7. When Is the Resurrection? 163
8. Who Is the Antichrist? 185
9. When Is the Millennium? 205
Appendixes
1. The Olivet Discourse according to Matthew 219
2. The Olivet Discourse in Matthew, Mark, and Luke 226
Notes 241
Glossary 251
Bibliography of Works Cited 253
Index of Names 263
Index of Scripture 267
Sproul closes his Introduction with these words:
"Contemporary eschatological theories, especially those found within evangelicalism, are keenly interested in the significance of events surrounding modern Israel and the city of Jerusalem. Karl Barth once remarked that the modern Christian must read with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. The dramatic return to Palestine of the Jews, the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and the recapture of Jerusalem in 1967 have provoked a frenzy of interest in eschatology. We see no sign of this ending anytime soon. Books (such as the Left Behind series), websites, and other resources insist that we are living in the last generation. The question persists: What is the significance of modern Israel and Jerusalem to biblical prophecy?
Whatever one’s view of modern Jerusalem, it is essential that we examine the significance of its destruction by the Romans in the first century. If the reconstruction of Jerusalem is significant, it can only be so in light of its earlier destruction. No matter what view of eschatology we embrace, we must take seriously the redemptive-historical importance of Jerusalem’s destruction in AD 70.
In 'The Last Days according to Jesus' we will devote considerable attention to New Testament prophecies bearing on the destruction of Jerusalem, as well as the eyewitness account of it provided by Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.
Prophecies of the coming of God’s kingdom and the parousia of Christ are linked biblically with prophecies of the day of the Lord. This day is viewed to some degree as a day of divine judgment and the pouring out of God’s wrath. These concepts are interconnected and must be viewed in relation to each other.
From the Enlightenment onward, the church has been gripped by a severe crisis regarding the trustworthiness of Scripture. The spirit of skepticism that reigns in so many quarters is a direct result of the avalanche of criticism leveled against the Bible. Early in this century Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper lamented that biblical criticism had degenerated into biblical vandalism. The task in our time is to answer the critics who have scorned the Scriptures and given us a Christ of their own imaginations. The only Christ is the biblical Christ. All revisionist Christs are but shadows of the antichrist.
Due to the crisis in confidence in the truth and authority of Scripture and the subsequent crisis regarding the real historical Jesus, eschatology must come to grips with the tensions of time-frame references in the New Testament."
ISBN 978-0-8010-1858-9
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Number of pages: 276
Original Publication Date: Sep. 2000
New Edition Published in 2015
Format: Paperback
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