Reformation CD#14 - Reformation Eschatology 2
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"After all that has been written it would not be easy to find a more sensible and instructive work than this old-fashioned exposition... the mystery of the Gospel fills it with sweet savour" writes Spurgeonof this work (cited in Johnston,Treasury of the Scottish Covenant, p. 318, emphasis added).

Brooks says, "I have derived more knowledge of the Apocalypse from this work than from all other expositions which I have consulted."

This is a great companion volume to Steele's Notes on the Apocalypse(above). Here Steele zeros in on and works primarily from the text of Revelation 11:13, "I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophecy." Steele deals with testimony-bearing, Antichrist, Popery, the beasts of Revelation, the mark of the beast, 666, the image of the beast, civil and ecclesiastical apostasy, Reformation, covenanting, heresy, schism, terms of communion, slavery, sectarianism, Mormonism, Independency, freemasonry, history, worship, idolatry, Britain, the United States, Canada, mystical Babylon, the last days, the ultimate victory of the church and a host of other subjects!

This is Book 4, Chapter 7 out of the Beveridge edition of Calvin'sInstitutes. It shows how "the Papacy appeared complete in all its parts, the seat of Antichrist."Rome's impiety, execrable tyranny, and wickedness is also clearly portrayed, in a most pointed manner, by the pen of the great Reformer.

An eminent high Calvinist Independent divine who sat at the Westminster Assembly, Goodwin here givesa detailed look at the book of Revelation. Also appended are his "Brief History of the Kingdom of Christ, Extracted Out of the Book of Revelation" and "A Discourse of Christ's Reward; or, the Glory Which He Receives in Heaven (Rev. 5:12)."

Understanding the Reformation position on eschatology, as it is set forth in this work, gives us great insight into why the Romanists (i.e. the Jesuits in particular) were so intent on planting both Preterism (Alcasar, c. 1615) and Futurism (Ribera, c. 1585) among the Protestants. 583 pages.

There are two great antichristian religious systems of deceit revealed in the book of Revelation.The "great western antichrist" of Roman Catholicism (Rev. 17 and 18) and the "great eastern antichrist" of Islam (Rev. 9). This has been the majority position of historic Protestant interpretation (Historicism) for centuries (as all the most faithful Reformers and all the Reformation creeds and confessions attest). For example, the illustrious John Calvin proclaimed that "Mahomet" and "the Pope" are "the two horns of Antichrist."

The following six extracts on Islam's place in prophecy are taken from five Historicist books which Still Waters Revival Books has published over the past years (see the URLs noted below for the full printed editions of each title).These extracts not only clearly show that the rise and fall of Islam is prophesied in Scripture, but they also give us one of the most powerful testimonies to God's sovereignty (over all His creatures and all their actions) in all of the Word of God. In fact, when the historicist position is carefully studied, the prophetic fulfillment in the case of Islam and Revelation chapter nine is seen to be so striking and well attested that "even advocates of other approaches who are adamant in their rejection of the historicist system of interpretation have admitted the convincing nature of this particular identification" (Steve Gregg, commenting on Rev. 9:1-6 inRevelation: Four Views, p. 176).

The following six excerptson Islam in Revelation comprise 105 printed pages and are taken from:

Hodge's defense of Postmillennialism.

David Steele, in his classic Notes on the Apocalypseincludes Mason among his list of "distinguished and approved interpreters of the book of Revelation."

Defends the late date for the writing of the book of Revelation (the Apostolic/Reformation position).

Explains that historicism deals with the great whore that rides the beast of Revelation as the symbolic representations referring to "the ecclesiastical government of the Papacy, or the apostate church of Rome," and the Roman Empire respectively. Holds to and defends a late date for the writing of the book of Revelation (which was the generally accepted position, concerning the dating of the book of Revelation, of early church for about the first three centuries after Christ). "A reprint," wroteThe Patriot, "of one of the most remarkable and sagacious works extant on the subject of unfulfilled prophecy, deserving a perusal as a succinct, learned, and eminently devout exposition of the Apocalypse."

After noting that he found the Jesuit (i.e. Preterist—RB) method of eschatalogical interpretation unsatisfactory, Pond tells us how he came to settle on the historic Protestant method of interpretation (i.e. historicism). Furthermore, he states that, "avoiding the theories of Rationalists and Roman Catholics on the one hand, and of the Adventists (Premillennialists—RB) on the other, the plan of interpretation which we have pursued is the same which has been held by the great body of evangelical ministers and Christians in America and in England for the last hundred years."

Contains a harmony and history of the Scripture prophecies concerning: Adam, Noah, and their families; the Canaanites; Egyptians; Philistines; Ethiopians; Edomites and Amalekites; Moabites and Amonites; Syrians; Assyrians; Chaldeans; Medes and Persians; Greeks; Romans; Ishmaelites, etc.; Scythians, Tartars, Turks; the Lord Jesus Christ; theRomish Antichrist; Israelites, Jews; and the New Testament Church. The final pages give a brief chronology of noted events from the creation (about 6000 years ago according to Brown) to the author's day. This book, Brown notes, taken together with hisSacred Topology; or A Brief View of the Figures and Explication of the Metaphors Contained in Scripture, "form a kind of systematic explication of the whole Old and New Testament."

Macfarlane called Brown "perhaps the most remarkable divine that our country has produced" (cited in Johnston, Treasury of the Scottish Covenant, p. 485). In this book, which is divided into three sections, Brown gives a "general view of the figures of Scripture language," an "explication of metaphors respecting persons" and an "explication of metaphors respecting things."He also notes that "the ensuing work contains a whole system of divine truth, represented in Scripture-metaphors." 480 pages.

The author defends the historicist position of eschatology. Historicism teaches that a number of the prophecies of Scripture, and especially those in the book of Revelation, will be seen to be fulfilled throughout history. The specific prophetic fulfillments in question (for example what does the "beast" or "the mother of harlots" in Revelation 17 refer to?) are not seen to be past (as in the Preterist system) or future (as in the Futurist system); neither are they spiritualized to refer to general ideas (of good versus evil) without specific historic fulfillment (as in the Typico-Spiritual system). The historicist position was ensconced in all the substantial Reformed confessions (including the preamble to the Decrees of Dort [1618-19] and the Westminster Confession of Faith [1647]); and no major Reformed Confession has ever taken the Preterist or Futurist position (which is not surprising, since both of these positions, as systems, originated with the Jesuits). Historicism was the position held by almost all the Reformers including Luther, Calvin and Knox. This book also covers the whole book of Revelation. Twelfth edition, indexed, 439 (vol. 1) and 440 pages (vol. 2).

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