“Stay Awake!”: Living Wide-Eyed Until Christ’s Coming (Mark 13:1-37)
CrossWay Community Church
October 15th 2023
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“Stay Awake!”: Living Wide-Eyed Until Christ’s Coming (Mark 13:1-37)
End Times
The Significance of Christ’s Resurrection (Training Seminar)
Introduction
What exactly did Jesus’ resurrection accomplish and why does it matter? This Training Seminar (via YouTube Playlist) seeks to provide a survey of the Bible’s teaching on the significance of Jesus’ resurrection.
The Presence of the Future: The New Testament’s Inaugurated Eschatology (with G.K. Beale)
The Old Testament tells a unifying story of God working to restore his creation and establish his kingdom. This would finally happen permanently and irreversible at the end of history, the “last days.” But the New Testament presents this time as already having dawned in the arrival of Christ. We are living in those “last days,” as Peter said (Acts 2). Premier New Testament scholar, G.K. Beale, visits the Church Theology podcast to talk about the New Testament’s “inaugurated eschatology,” or as George Eldon Ladd put it, “the presence of the future.”
Access the episode here. (Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and more.)
Carson on the Tension Between the Singleness, Imminence, and Signs Preceding Christ’s Coming
In class Dr. Don Carson presented what I think is a very simple and helpful diagram/explanation about the tensions that exist between three Biblical realities that relate to the return of Christ. Dr. Carson did not present a resolution to the tension (unless I totally missed it). But nonetheless, the diagram is helpful, if nothing else, for understanding the difficulties that differing eschatological (referring to “last things” or end times) views face and must try to resolve. Without diving into the debate, allow me to simply share with you his diagram/explanation in hopes that it helps you better understand the views and the tensions that they face.
Kirk E. Miller 