From as far back as I can remember, our family spent a week each year in the study of Dispensationalism during our family devotions. My father would pull out a long chart from the back of his Schofield Bible and teach us all the different words on its six thousand year time line. It always ended the same. Jesus is coming back soon. Don’t get caught in sin. My father ended all his prayers with: so come Lord Jesus.
Steeped as I was in prophecy, long before I finished seminary and returned to Africa as an evangelical, dispensationalist missionary myself, I knew that the Darby view of Revelation was pure fiction. I had never heard of an alternative, and so I began a life-long search for another interpretation that made sense of all the problematic images that contradicted the Gospels and the love of God. I finally found one. Here it is, and with it love is restored to the center of Christian life.
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