This is a transitionary podcast. I give a summary of what we have covered so far (so it is a reminder but also if you have missed a podcast this will be a good one to listen to, or if you are looking to join in from now on).
I also give some of the influences on me: Ladd, Wright… Perriman.
Then finally some heads up on where I am going in the next set of podcasts. After this podcast I will begin to look at the NT material, starting with a background to NT expectations.
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In May 1991, I gave a message that God was calling for the day when there would be 3 generations working together. God being the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Now is the time when I consider that we have to press in for this.
For more details on 3generations, wild-fire.
In the UK we are not very good Europeans. But this is the continent that we are part of, and the continent where we must see the shift take place of generations working together for a future. Formerly… For many years I had a web site wild-fire.co.uk: I named it that after receiving a vision in 1998 about fire breaking out in Wales. There is now tangible evidence that wild-fire is in the land.
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Thanks for this Martin. I am finding all of this very helpful. It is making me think. Mostly I am thinking about it all in the context of the current global crisis (or is it crises) around climate change. We are certainly entering a new time, possibly one that will be extremely stressful on every structure and infrastructure of civilization that we have built. The latest news is that at least some climate scientists are concerned that due to inaction we are now into a worse case scenario. All of their models are outdated, putting the change as occuring too slowly. The models have to be updated with the sheer speed of distressing changes on our planet (think of the melting artic ice and now the failure of ice shelves in the antartica). There are questions about how long the planet will remain habitable for the human species.
We face really big questions at the moment. Not just will the planet support our life but in the face of these changes, creating less habitable space on the planet, creating massive new deserts, drying water supplies, leading to increasing numbers of environmental refugees and migration, how do we, the church, respond? And how do we understand all of this in light of scripture?
I appreciate all the study you have done and are doing as we are going to need to be clear about what exactly our hope is in the coming days.
c.
Martin,
I have been listening to your eschatology podcasts on and off for the past year or so. I recently came across some information that seems to indicate that the book of Revelation may have been written before 70 A.D. If so, that would mean that John wrote Revelation before he wrote the other four gospels. If that is true, it could have huge implications. Revelation-a book that leads many to believe for the destruction of the earth instead was the encounter that pre-dated John’s writings of the revelation of love.
Does this time frame for the writing of the book of Revelation seem to be accurate?
Joel
Thanks for the comment Joel. For me the evidence is not strong enough to go with pre AD70. I see the main critique being re. empire as embodied at the time in Rome (Babylon being the symbol used). But pre AD70 makes an interesting read of course, with then much more about Jerusalem etc.