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"Any sin is more or less heinous depending upon the honor and majesty of the one whom we had offended. Since God is of infinite honor, infinite majesty, and infinite holiness, the slightest sin is of infinite consequence. The slightest sin is nothing less than cosmic treason when we realize against whom we have sinned." - Jonathan Edwards on the Puritan Hard Drive
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"Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee" (Job 22:21). "Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might, let not the rich glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth, and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord" (Jer 9:23,24). A spiritual and saving knowledge of God is the greatest need of every human creature. - From the Preface to The Attributes of God by Arthur W. Pink (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
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"Hence that dread and amazement with which, as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God... Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God." - John Calvin on the Puritan Hard Drive
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"Sin is cosmic treason. Sin is treason against a perfectly pure Sovereign. It is an act of supreme ingratitude toward the One to whom we owe everything, to the One who has given us life itself. Have you ever considered the deeper implications of the slightest sin, of the most minute peccadillo? What are we saying to our Creator when we disobey Him at the slightest point? We are saying no to the righteousness of God. We are saying, "God, Your law is not good. My judgement is better than Yours. Your authority does not apply to me. I am above and beyond Your jurisdiction. I have the right to do what I want to do, not what You command me to do." - Dr. R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God
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But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. - Psalm 115:3, KJV
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omnipotentia: omnipotence, having all power and potency, being all powerful; an attribute of God; omnipotentia indicates the power, or potentia (q.v.), of God ad extra by virtue of which he can do all things that are not contrary either to his will or his knowledge. In other words, the omnipotentia Dei is limited only by the essence or nature of God himself and by nothing external to God. Thus the fact that God cannot do evil, cannot die, and cannot cease to be Father, Son, and Spirit is not a limit on or a contradiction of his omnipotentia. The scholastics agree with Augustine that all such hypothetical acts as would diminish God would be signs of weakness or of a defective willing, not evidences of omnipotence. Since, moreover, God himself is eternally fully actualized (in actu, q.v.) and never in process or in potency (in potentia, q.v.), the potentia Dei, the potency of God, or omnipotentia Dei, refers to the divine activity ad extra and never to a change or a potential for change in the divine essence, which is, by definition, both perfect and immutably so (see immutabilitas). Furthermore, since God’s omnipotence is a potentia, it cannot be a capacity for self-privation, i.e., a deficiency or deficient cause. The divine omnipotence may be further defined as the divine power or potential for the conferring of being and the active governance of all that is. In the former instance, which is the work of creation, the power of God is omnipotentiaabsoluta or potentia absoluta (q.v.), since it observes no prior condition apart from the divine essence itself and operates in relation to the divine knowledge of all possibility (scientia necessaria, q.v.). This omnipotentia absoluta can be referred also to miracles. In the latter instance, which is the work of providence or continued creation (see creatio continuata; providentia), the power of God is omnipotentia relativa sive ordinata, relative or ordained omnipotence, or potentia ordinata (q.v.), since it is bound by laws of its own making and relates to the divine governance of actuality. - Richard A. Muller, Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology (Baker Academic, 2nd edition, Ebook edition created 2017, pp. 378-379), and p. 208 in the printed book (Fifth Printing, March 2003) (emphases added)
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God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder. - Thomas Watson, on the Puritan Hard Drive
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Q. 7. What are the decrees of God?
A. The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.
Q. 8. How doth God execute his decrees?
A. God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
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When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw them into prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God's call is founded upon His decree, and His decree is immutable. Acts of grace cannot be reversed. God blots out His people's sins, but not their names. - Thomas Watson, on the Puritan Hard Drive
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In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. - Ephesians 1:11-12, KJV
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- a. Rom 9:15, 18; 11:33; Eph 1:11; Heb 6:17. • b. James 1:13, 17; 1 John 1:5. • c. Prov 16:33; Mat 17:12; John 19:11; Acts 2:23; 4:27-28.
- a. 1 Sam 23:11-12; Mat 11:21, 23; Acts 15:18. • b. Rom 9:11, 13, 16, 18.
- a. Mat 25:41; 1 Tim 5:21. • b. Prov 16:4; Rom 9:22-23; Eph 1:5-6.
- a. John 13:18; 2 Tim 2:19.
- 5. Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ, unto everlasting glory,a out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions, or causes moving him thereunto;b and all to the praise of his glorious grace.c
- a. Rom 8:30; Eph 1:4, 9, 11; 1 Thes 5:9; 2 Tim 1:9. • b. Rom 9:11, 13, 16; Eph 1:4, 9. • c. Eph 1:6, 12.
- 6. As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, fore-ordained all the means thereunto.a Wherefore they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ,b are effectually called unto faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due season; are justified, adopted, sanctified,c and kept by his power through faith unto salvation.d Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only.e
- a. Eph 1:4-5; Eph 2:10; 2 Thes 2:13; 1 Pet 1:2. • b. 1 Thes 5:9-10; Titus 2:14. • c. Rom 8:30; Eph 1:5; 2 Thes 2:13. • d. 1 Pet 1:5. • e. John 6:64-65; 8:47; 10:26; 17:9; Rom 8:28-39; 1 John 2:19.
- a. Mat 11:25-26; Rom 9:17-18, 21-22; 2 Tim 2:19-20; 1 Pet 2:8; Jude 1:4.
- a. Deut 29:29; Rom 9:20. • b. 2 Pet 1:10. • c. Rom 11:33; Eph 1:6. • d. Luke 10:20; Rom 8:33; 11:5-6, 20; 2 Pet 1:10.
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What is God's remedy for dejection at apparent failure in our labours? This -- the assurance that God's purpose cannot fail, that God's plans cannot miscarry, that God's will must be done. Our labours are not intended to bring about that which God has not decreed. - Arthur W. Pink, on the Puritan Hard Drive
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Francis Turretin Quote
No distinction of God’s decrees is more frequently urged by the Socinians, Remonstrants and others who contend for the idol of free will, than that of the absolute and conditional. Yet none is attended with greater absurdities or has fewer claims to acceptance. The design of the Socinians and their followers on this subject is to confirm the figment of middle knowledge (scientia media), to establish election from foreseen faith and to extol the strength of the human will. The question does not concern the absolute or conditional decree a posteriori and consequently; or with respect to the things decreed and the objects willed outside of God (whether such decrees may be granted as either have no condition and means in execution, or include something). For in this sense, we do not deny that various decrees can be called conditional because they have conditions subordinate to them (although it must be confessed that it is a less proper way of speaking because the condition ought not to be confounded with the means; and it is one thing for a thing to be decreed under a condition, but another for it to be decreed as to be brought about through such means).
Rather the question concerns the decree absolute or conditional a priori and antecedently on the part of the decree itself (whether the decrees are such as are suspended upon a condition containing power and of uncertain event outside of God; or whether they are absolute, depending upon his good pleasure alone). The Socinians and others assert the former; we the latter. The reasons are:
(1) every decree of God is eternal; therefore it cannot depend upon a condition which takes place only in time.
(2) God’s decrees depend on his good pleasure (eudokia) (Mt. 11:26; Eph. 1:5; Rom. 9:11). Therefore they are not suspended upon any condition outside of God.
(3) Every decree of God is immutable (Is. 46:10; Rom. 9:11). Now a conditional decree is mutable because every condition is mutable (especially if not decreed by God, but placed in the free will of man-such as is meant here). Hence, the conditional decree ceasing, God would fail in his purpose and would be obliged to enter upon new counsels by a second thought (deuteras phrontidas).
(4) It is repugnant to the wisdom and power of God to make such decrees as depend upon an impossible condition (which neither will nor can be because he upon whom alone it depends does not will to grant it). If this can take place in men weak and ignorant of the future, does it not follow that it can take place in God-the most wise, omniscient and omnipotent (to whom all things are not only foreseen but also provided for)? It is absurd for the Creator to depend upon the creature, God upon man and the will of God (the first cause of all things) upon the things them, selves. But this must be the case if the decrees of God are suspended on any condition in man. There is no middle knowledge (scientia media) having for its object future conditional things Therefore there is no conditional decree, usually placed under it as a foundation.
Conditional decrees cannot be granted without supposing that he who decreed either was ignorant of the event or that the event was not in the power of the one decreeing or that he determined nothing certainly or absolutely concerning the event. All this, being highly derogatory to God, cannot and ought not to be ascribed to him.
Every decree of God is eternal; therefore it cannot depend upon a condition which takes place only in time.
(2) God’s decrees depend on his good pleasure (eudokia) (Mt. 11:26; Eph. 1:5; Rom. 9:11). Therefore they are not suspended upon any condition outside of God.
(3) Every decree of God is immutable (Is. 46:10; Rom. 9:11).
- Francis Turretin (emphases added, 1623-1687, on the Puritan Hard Drive), The Decrees of God
Archibald Alexander Hodge Quote
A self-existent, independent, all-perfect, and unchangeable God, existing alone from eternity, began to create the universe physical and moral in an absolute vacuum, moved to do so from motives and with reference to ends, and according to ideas and plans, wholly interior and self-prompted.
Also, if God governs the universe, he must, as an intelligent being, govern it according to a plan; and this plan must be perfect in its comprehension, reaching to all details. If he has a plan now, he must have had the same plan unchanged from the beginning. The decree of God therefore is the act of an infinite, absolute, eternal, unchangeable, and sovereign person, comprehending a plan including all his works of all kinds, great and small, from the beginning of creation to an unending eternity.
It must therefore be incomprehensible, and it can not be conditioned by any thing exterior to God himself—since it was matured before any thing exterior to him existed, and hence itself embraces and determines all these supposed exterior things and all the conditions of them forever. ... God foreknows all events as certainly future because he has decreed them and thus made them certainly future. ...
Some things God has eternally decreed to do himself immediately, e. g., creation; other things to bring to pass through the action of second causes acting under a law of necessity, and again other things he has decreed to prompt or to permit free agents to do in the exercise of their free agency; yet the one class of events is rendered by the decree as certainly future as the other. ... God has decreed ends as well as means, causes as well as effects, conditions and instrumentalities as well as the events which depend upon them. ...
God’s decree determines only the certain futurition of events, it directly effects or causes no event. But the decree itself provides in every case that the event shall be effected by causes acting in a manner perfectly consistent with the nature of the event in question.
Thus in the case of every free act of a moral agent the decree itself provides at the same time
(a.) That the agent shall be a free agent.
(b.) That his antecedents and all the antecedents of the act in question shall be what they are.
(c.) That all the present conditions of the act shall be what they are.
(d.) That the act shall be perfectly spontaneous and free on the part of the agent.
(e.) That it shall be certainly future.
... God’s purposes relating to all events of every kind constitute one single, all-comprehensive intention comprehending all events, the free as free, the necessary as necessary, together with all their causes, conditions, and relations, as one indivisible system of things, every link of which is essential to the integrity of the whole. ...
Because every event that actually occurs in the system of things is interlaced with all other events in endless involution. No event is isolated. The color of the flower and the nest of the bird are related to the whole material universe. Even in our ignorance we can trace a chemical fact as related to myriad other facts, classified under the heads of mechanics, electricity, and light and life. ...
God decrees events as they actually occur, i.e., events produced by causes, and depending upon conditions. The decree that determines the event can not leave out the cause or the condition upon which it depends. But the cause of one event, is the effect of another, and every event in the universe is more immediately or remotely the condition of every other, so that an eternal purpose on the part of God must be one all-comprehensive act. ...
As our minds are finite, as it is impossible for us to embrace in one act of intelligent comprehension an infinite number of events in all their several relations and bearings, we necessarily contemplate events in partial groups, and we conceive of the purpose of God relating to them as distinct successive acts. Hence the Scriptures speak of the counsels, the purposes, and the judgments of God in the plural, and in order to indicate the intended relation of one event to another, they represent God as purposing one event, as the means or condition upon which another is suspended. This is all true because these events do have these relations to one another, but they all alike fall within, and none remain without, that one eternal design of God which comprehends equally all causes and all effects, all events and all conditions.
All the speculative errors of men on this subject, spring from the tendency of the human mind to confine attention to one fragment of God’s eternal purpose, and to regard it as isolated from the rest. The Decree of God separates no event from its causes or conditions any more than we find them separated in nature. We are as much unable to take in by one comprehensive act of intelligence all the works of God in nature as we are to take in all his decrees. We are forced to study his works part by part. But no intelligent student of nature thinks that any event is isolated. So we are forced to study his decrees part by part, but no intelligent theologian should suppose that there are any broken links or imperfect connection either here or there. ...
As God is infinite, he is necessarily eternal and unchangeable, from eternity infinite in wisdom and knowledge, and absolutely independent in thought and purpose of every creature. There can never be any addition to his wisdom, nor surprise to his foreknowledge, nor resistance to his power, and therefore there never can be any occasion to reverse or modify that infinitely wise and righteous purpose which, from the perfection of his nature, he formed from eternity. ... It is asserted in Scripture.—(ἀπʼ ἀιῶνος) Acts 15:18; (πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου) Eph. 1:4; 1 Pet. 1:20; (ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς) 2 Thes 2:13; (πρὸ χρόνων ἀιωνίων) 2 Tim. 1:9; (πρὸ τῶν ἀιωνων) 1 Cor. 2:7; Eph. 3:11, etc. ... Even of the wicked actions of men. “Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and with wicked hands have crucified and slain.”—Acts 2:23. “For of a truth against thy Holy Child whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined beforehand to be done.”—Acts 4:27, 28; Acts 13:29; 1 Peter 2:8; Jude 4; Rev. 17:17. As to the history of Joseph, compare Gen. 37:28 with Gen. 45:7, 8, and 50:20: “So now it was not you that sent me hither but God.” “But as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good.”—See also Ps. 17:13, 14, and Is. 10:5 and 15, etc. ...
It follows from the eternity, immutability, and infinite wisdom, foreknowledge, and power of God, that his temporal working in providence must in all things proceed according to his eternal purpose.—Eph. 1:11, and Acts 15:18. But both Scripture and reason alike teach us that the providential government of God comprehends all things in heaven and on earth as a whole, and every event in detail.—Prov. 16:33; Dan. 4:34, 35; Matt. 10:29, 30. ...
God has in the Scriptures foretold the certain occurrence of many events, including the free actions of men, which have afterwards surely come to pass. Now the ground of prophecy is foreknowledge, and the foundation of the foreknowledge of an event as certainly future, is God’s decree that made it future. The eternal immutability of the decree is the only foundation of the infallibility either of the foreknowledge or of the prophecy. But if God has decreed certain future events, he must also have included in that decree all of their causes, conditions, co-ordinates, and consequences. No event is isolated; to make one certainly future implies the determination of the whole concatenation of causes and effects which constitute the universe. ...
Calvinists admit that the all-comprehensive decree of God determines all events according to their inherent nature, the actions of free agents as free, and the operation of necessary causes, necessarily. It also comprehends the whole system of causes and effects of every kind; of the motives and conditions of free actions, as well as the necessary causes of necessary events. God decreed salvation upon the condition of faith, yet in the very same act he decreed the faith of those persons whose salvation he has determined. “Whom he did predestinate, them he also called.” Thus his decree from the beginning embraced and provided for the free agency of man, as well as the regular procedures of nature, according to established laws.
Thus also his covenants, or conditional promises, which he makes in time, are in all their parts the execution of his eternal purpose, which comprehended the promise, and the condition in their several places as means to the end. But that the decree of God can be regarded as suspended upon conditions which are not themselves determined by the decree is evidently impossible. ...
This decree has been shown above (Questions 3–7) to be eternal and all-comprehensive. A condition implies liability to change. The whole universe forming one system, if one part is contingent the whole must be contingent, for if one condition failed the whole concatenation of causes and effects would be deranged. If the Arminian should rejoin that although God did not foreordain the free acts of men, yet he infallibly foreknew and provided for them, and therefore his plans can not fail; then the Calvinist replies that if God foresaw that a given man, in given circumstances, would act at a given juncture in a certain way, then God in decreeing to create that very man and place him in those very circumstances, at that very juncture, did foreordain the certain futurition of that very event, and of all its consequences. That God’s decree is immutable and does not depend upon uncertain conditions, is proved.
(1) from its eternity,
(2) from the direct assertions of Scripture.—Isa. 14:24, 27; 46:10; Ps. 33:11; Prov. 19:21; Rom. 9:11; Eph. 3:11. ...
The foreknowledge of God, as Arminians admit, is eternal and certain, and embraces all events, free as well as necessary. But,
(1) as shown in the preceding paragraph, this foreknowledge involves foreordination, and
(2) certainty in the foreknowledge implies certainty in the event; certainty implies determination; determination leaves us to choose between the decree of an infinitely wise, righteous, and benevolent God, and a blind fate. ...
A conditional decree would subvert the sovereignty of God and make him, as to the administration of his whole government and the execution of all his plans, dependent upon the uncontrollable actions of his own creatures. But the decrees of God are sovereign.—Isa. 40:13, 14; Dan. 4:35; Rom. 9:15–18. 4th. His decree is declared to depend upon his own “good pleasure,” and the “counsel of his own will.”—Eph. 1:5, 11; Rom. 9:11; Matt. 11:25, 26. 5th. The decree of God includes the means and conditions. 2 Thess. 2:13; 1 Pet. 1:2; Eph. 1:4. 6th. His decree absolutely determines the free actions of men.—Acts 4:27, 28; Eph. 2:10. 7th. God himself works in his people that faith and obedience which are called the conditions of their salvation.—Phil. 2:13; Eph. 2:8; 2 Tim. 2:25. ... The foreknowledge of God regards future events as certain. The ground of this certainty must be either in God, or in the events themselves, which last is fatalism. ... The Scriptures ascribe a certainty of futurition to the events decreed. There is a needs-be that the event should happen “as it was determined.”—Luke 18:31–33; 24:46; Acts 2:23; 13:29; 1 Cor. 11:19; Matt. 16:21. ...
The Calvinistic doctrine of Decrees agrees with Fatalism only at one point, i.e., in maintaining that the events in question are certainly future. But the Arminian doctrine of divine foreknowledge does precisely the same thing. In every other point our doctrine differs from the heathen doctrine of Fate. Fatalism supposes all events to be certainly determined by a universal law of necessary causation, acting blindly and by a simple unintelligent force effecting its end irresistibly and irrespective of the free wills of the free agents involved. There was no room left for final ends or purposes, no place for motive or choice, no means or conditions, but a simple evolution of necessity. On the other hand the Calvinistic doctrine of Decrees postulates the infinite all-comprehensive plan of an infinitely wise, righteous, powerful, and benevolent Father, whose plan is determined not by mere will, but according to the “counsel of his will,” securing the best ends, and adopting the best means in order to attain those ends—and whose plan is not executed by mere force, but through the instrumentality of all classes of second causes, free as well as necessary, each pre-adapted to its place and function, and each acting without constraint according to its nature. There is an infinite difference between a machine and a man, between the operation of motives, intelligence, free choice, and the mechanical forces which act upon matter. There is precisely the same difference between the system of divine decrees, and the heathen doctrine of fate. ...
We have the fact distinctly revealed that God has decreed the free acts of men, and yet that the actors were none the less responsible, and consequently none the less free in their acts.—Acts 2:23; 3:18; 4:27, 28; Gen. 50:20, etc. We never can understand how the infinite God acts upon the finite spirit of man, but it is none the less our duty to believe. ... But as shown below, in Chapter XV., the true theory of the will is that the liberty of the agent consists in his acting in each case as, upon the whole, he pleases, i.e., according to the dispositions and desires of his heart, under the immediate view which his reason takes of the case. These dispositions and desires are determined in their turn by the character of the agent in relation to his circumstances, which character and circumstances are surely not beyond the control of the infinite God. ...
Humility, in view of the infinite greatness and sovereignty of God, and of the dependence of man.
Confidence and implicit reliance upon the wisdom, righteousness, goodness, and immutability of God’s purposes, and cheerful obedience to his commandments; always remembering that God’s precepts, as distinctly revealed, and not his decrees, are the rule of our duty.
- "The Decrees of God" by Archibald Alexander Hodge, emphases added (on the Puritan Hard Drive), Outlines of Theology (Rewritten and Enlarged, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1878), 200–213.
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Gods decree, in as much as it concerneth man, is called Predestination: which is the decree of God, by the which he hath ordained all men to a certaine and everlasting estate: that is, either to salvation or condemnation, for his own glory. - William Perkins (on the Puritan Hard Drive), A Golden Chaine: or, The Description of Theologie (1608)
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You ought to think this way: "Very well, by God's decree the enemy has sent us poison and deadly offal. Therefore I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine, and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence. If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others. If my neighbor needs me, however, I shall not avoid place or person but will go freely, as stated above. See, this is such a God-fearing faith because it is neither brash nor foolhardy and does not tempt God." - Martin Luther's Works, vol. 43, p. 132, "Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague", emphases added. Much by Martin Luther is on the Puritan Hard Drive.
Martin Luther, God's Decree, & the Coronavirus
Election, Reprobation & Predestination In The Reformed Creeds & Confessions - Refuting The Heresies Of Arminianism & Pelagianism by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon (Free MP3s)
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With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. - Isaiah 40:14-16, KJV
God's Amazing & Awe-Inspiring Attributes In Scripture and the Westminster Confession Of Faith, With Practical Reformation Reformation Applications By Dr. Steven Dilday (6 Free MP3s), Stephen Charnock, A.W. Pink, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, Dr. R.C. Sproul and Others (Many Free Reformation Resources)
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How foolish is every sinner. Can we poor worms strut it out against infinite power? Oh, that every obstinate sinner would think of this, and consider his unmeasurable boldness in thinking himself able to grapple with omnipotence! What force can any have to resist the presence of Him before whom rocks melt, and the heavens at length shall be shriveled up as a parchment by the last fire! As the light of God's face is too dazzling to be beheld by us, so the arm of His power is too mighty to be opposed by us. - Stephen Charnock (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
78 FREE SWRB MP3s: Existence & Attributes of God (A Puritan/Reformed Classic) by Stephen Charnock
Covenanting In the Bible and In the Future (As Prophesied In Biblical Prophecy) By Pastor Jim Dodson, Pastor Greg Price and Pastor James Willson (Many Free SWRB MP3s, PDFs and Videos)
A Jesuit: "Now we have planted the Sovereign Drug Arminianism, OUR FOUNDATION IS ARMINIANISM." - Arminianism Another Gospel (Free MP3 & PDF) on FaceBook
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Has Jesuit (Roman Catholic, Romanist) Eschatology Overtaken Protestantism?
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Apocalyptic Interpretation from the Original Covenanter and Contending Witness magazine. (Explains, in summary form, the six main theories of Apocalyptic interpretation, while also citing the originators of each system.)
Biblical Prophecy (Postmillennialism and Historicism), Pastor Jim Dodson, 44 Remarkable Free MP3s About Classic Reformation Eschatology
Perfect Historical Fulfillments Of Prophecies, In the Book of Revelation, Regarding the Rise, Expansion and Fall Of Islam
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The Roman Catholic (Jesuit) Origins of Futurism and Preterism
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Best Free Reformed Audio Commentaries On Revelation and Eschatology By Contemporary Reformed Ministers Dr. Steven Dilday, W.J. Mencarow and Greg Price (Free MP3s, PDFs, Videos, Etc.)
Mind-Blowing Biblical Prophecy Fulfilled To the Very Hour! God's Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnisapience, Etc., On Display In the Perfect Historical Fulfillments Of Prophecies, In Revelation, Regarding the Rise, Expansion and Fall Of Islam and the Papal Antichrist, and Much More, By Dr. Steven Dilday, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, W.J. Mencarow, John Owen, Greg Price, John Calvin, George Gillespie (Westminster Divine), J.A. Wylie, Richard Bennett, John Foxe, David Steele and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos and Books)
- "Now, Christians, the more great and glorious things you expect from God, as the downfall of antichrist, the conversion of the Jews, the conquest of the nations to Christ, the breaking of all yokes, the new Jerusalem's coming down from above, the extraordinary pouring out of the Spirit, and a more general union among all saints, the more holy, yea, the more eminently holy in all your ways and actings it becomes you to be." - Thomas Brooks, The Crown and Glory of Christianity, 1662, CompleteWorks, 1867, p. 444, as cited in Iain Murray's The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy, p. 84). Thomas Brooks Works are also on the Puritan Hard Drive
Is Popery the Antichrist? or The Tendency of Prophecy to Describe Things According to the Reality, Rather that the Appearance or Profession, by Patrick Fairbairn (Classic Protestant Historicism demonstrating why both futurism and preterism are hermeneutically flawed.)
Antichrist Unmistakably Revealed, by Pastor Greg Price, John Calvin, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, W.J. Mencarow, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, J.A. Wylie, Richard Bennett, John Foxe, George Gillespie, David Steele and Others
On Revelation, the Overthrow Of Antichrist, and the Eschatology Of Victory, by Jonathan Edwards
Antichrist, Revelation, Eschatology, Prophecy, Man of Sin and the Early Church Fathers by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
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It is generally recognized that Preterism was first systematized by the Roman Catholic Jesuit, Luis de Alcasar, in his commentary on Revelation (1614 a.d.). Alcasar applied the principles of Preterism to the Book of Revelation in identifying the Beast, the False Prophet and Mystery Babylon with past historical events in order to shield the papacy from the Protestant interpretive system (called "Historicism") which identified the man of sin, the antichrist, the False Prophet and Mystery Babylon with the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church. Even Professor Moses Stuart, one of the chief and earliest proponents of Preterism in the United States, noted in his commentary on Revelation (1845 a.d.) the following in regard to the Jesuit, Alcasar (Vol. 1, pp. 463,464): "It might of course be expected, that the Romish church would not be idle, while the Protestant interpreters were so busy in applying the beast and the false prophet of the Apocalypse to the papacy. . . But no one had ever developed this idea [of Preterism-GLP] fully, and endeavored to illustrate and enforce it, in such a way as Alcassar. . . It might be expected, that a commentary which thus freed the Romish church from the assaults of Protestants, would be popular among the advocates of the papacy. Alcassar met, of course, with general approbation and reception among the Romish community." - God's Gracious Covenant With Israel #17 (Partial & Full Preterism Refuted #1) by Greg Price (Free MP3)
PRETERISM REFUTED (THE DEFINITIVE REFUTATION OF PARTIAL PRETERISM AND FULL PRETERISM, A DAMNABLE HERESY ALSO KNOW AS HYPER-PRETERISM OR HYMENAEISM), FREE AUDIO AND TEXT OF SERMONS BY GREG PRICE (18 FREE MP3s and PDFs), WITH MORE FREE REFORMED MP3s, BOOKS AND VIDEOS ABOUT ESCHATOLOGY BY JOHN CALVIN, WESTMINSTER DIVINES, DR. STEVEN DILDAY, JOHN OWEN, W.J. MENCAROW, JONATHAN EDWARDS, JIM DODSON, CHARLES SPURGEON, DR. FRANCIS N. LEE, J.A. WYLIE, RICHARD BENNETT, JOHN FOXE, GEORGE GILLESPIE, DAVID STEELE, E.B. ELLIOTT AND OTHERS
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Islam in the Book of Revelation: An Historic Look at Protestant Eschatological Thought on the Rise and Fall of Islam by E. B. Elliott, Alexander M'Leod, David Steele et al.
Jonathan Edwards Defends Classic Reformation Eschatology: Historicism and Postmillennialism
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The anti-Christian leaven, which has been so extensively diffused, shall be purged out of both the churches and the nations. Every usurper of the rights and prerogatives of Sion's King shall be pushed from his seat. Every rival kingdom shall be overthrown. The civil and ecclesiastical constitutions of the earth shall be regulated by the infallible standard of God's word; their office-bearers, of every kind, shall acknowledge the authority of Messiah the Prince; and the greatest kings on earth shall cast their crowns at his feet. All enemies shall be put under his feet; and such as resist the melting influence of his grace, shall be crushed beneath the iron rod of his power. By spiritual conversion or judicial destruction, he shall effect the entire subjugation of the globe. And, at the last, there shall not be a spot on the face of the habitable earth where the true church of Christ shall not have effected a footing, nor a single tribe of the vast family of man which shall not have felt the meliorating and blissful influence of Christian laws and institutions. - William Symington,Messiah the Prince or, The Mediatorial Dominion of Jesus Christ (Still Waters Revival Books, [1884] 1990), pp. 185-86.
Who Is the Beast of Revelation & 666? By Greg Price (5 Free MP3s)
The Jesuits (4 of 4) Inquisition, Roman Catholic Terrorism, Torture, Martyrs, Luther, Calvin, Etc. From The History of Protestantism, by J. A. Wylie (Free SWRB MP3)
- "There was no disguise they (the Jesuits) could not assume, and therefore, there was no place into which they could not penetrate. They could enter unheard the closet of the Monarch, or the Cabinet of the Statesman. They could sit unseen in convocation or General Assembly, and mingle unsuspected in the deliberations and debates. There was no tongue they could not speak, and no creed they could not profess, and thus there was no people among whom they might not sojourn, and no church whose membership they might not enter and whose functions they might not discharge. They could execrate [i.e., sharply denounce] the Pope with the Lutheran, and swear the Solemn League with the Covenanter." - J.A. Wylie (Author of the book The History of Protestantism, 3 Volumes), on the Puritan Hard Drive)
The Jesuits (1 of 4) From The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie (Free SWRB MP3)
The Jesuits (2 of 4) From The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie (Free SWRB MP3)
The Jesuits (3 of 4) From The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie (Free SWRB MP3)
History of the Jesuits, by Dr. J. A. Wylie LL.D. (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
A Jesuit: "Now we have planted the Sovereign Drug Arminianism, OUR FOUNDATION IS ARMINIANISM." - Arminianism Another Gospel (Free MP3 & PDF)
ARMINIAN PERSECUTION OF CALVINISTS, COVENANTERS & PURITANS: EXAMPLES IN HISTORY OF HOW ARMINIANISM'S (JESUIT, ROMAN CATHOLIC, EPISCOPAL, PAPAL ANTICHRIST) RAGE AGAINST CALVINISM LED TO THE IMPRISONMENT, TORTURE, EXILE, & MARTYRDOM OF FAITHFUL CHRISTIANS
Marx's Religion Of Revolution (Video: 23:46)
Marxism is nothing more than a repackaging of ancient paganism in a mask of pseudo-science and Godless modernity.
Marx and Satan (Videos)
Democratic memo declares 'rise of white Christian nationalism is a national security threat' - A Political Action Committee and a group of Democratic lawmakers want Joe Biden to pursue a 'secular agenda' that pushes back religious liberty gains made under Trump.
- Excerpt: In the area of education policy, the document suggested that the U.S. Attorney General "confer with the Department Office of Legal Counsel to issue a memorandum regarding enforcement of the Establishment Clause in public schools, including students’ protection from school-sponsored proselytizing and teaching accurate, evidence-based, secular curriculum rather than creationism in the schools."
15 Creation Questions Evolutionists Can't Answer (Free Video, MP3 and Online Text)
- "The idea of millions of years came from the belief that the fossil record was built up over a long time. As soon as people allow for millions of years, they allow for the fossil record to be millions of years old. This creates an insurmountable problem regarding the gospel. The fossil record consists of the death of billions of creatures. In fact, it is a record of death, disease, suffering, cruelty, and brutality. It is a very ugly record. The Bible is adamant though, that death, disease, and suffering came into the world as a result of sin. God instituted death and bloodshed because of sin so man could be redeemed. As soon as Christians allow for death, suffering, and disease before sin, then the whole foundations of the message of the Cross and the Atonement have been destroyed. The doctrine of original sin, then, is totally undermined. If there were death, disease, and suffering before Adam rebelled -- then what did sin do to the world? What does Paul mean in Romans 8 when he says the whole of creation groans in pain because of the Curse? How can all things be restored in the future to no more death and suffering, unless the beginning was also free of death and suffering? The whole message of the gospel falls apart if one allows millions of years for the creation of the world." - The Necessity for Believing in Six Literal Days by Ken Ham. Also hear Six Day Creation and The Eisegesis Problem by Ken Ham (Free MP3) and "The Doctrine Of Original Sin (26 Free MP3s) by Jonathan Edwards.
The Vatican's Deal With Communist China and Globalist Tyrants: She Met With Pope Francis and Globalists at the Vatican and Now This Attorney Warns of Their Global Communist Agenda, Climate Change Being Used For These Satanic Purposes, Etc.
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Notes on the Apocalypse or A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (1870), by David Steele (Free MP3s, Free Online Book, Printed Book, etc.)
Lectures Upon the Principal Prophecies of the Revelation (1814), by Alexander McLeod (Free MP3 Audio Book, Free Online Book, PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Daisy, Text, DjVu)
Revelation Audio Commentary, by Pastor W.J. Mencarow (117 Free MP3s)
This series is a splendid overview of the history of Puritan and Reformed thought on Revelation, referencing many Reformation source documents. A great place to start if you are wondering what the book of Revelation is all about.
The Victory of the Reformation In History, Prophesied In Revelation (Classic Protestant Historicalism or Historicism In Prophesy), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
Islam In The Bible, 1 of 2 (What The Book Of Revelation Foretells About The Muslims), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
Islam In The Bible, 2 of 2 (What The Book Of Revelation Foretells About The Muslims), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
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We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. - John Owen(Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)
How The Church Of The Apostles Was Hijacked By Rome (A History Of Apostasy And The Growth Of Antichrist), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
Identifying the Great Apostasy, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3) (Free MP3)
Biblical Prophecy, by Pastor Jim Dodson (44 Remarkable Free MP3s About Classic Reformation Eschatology)
Prophecies Of God Destroying His Enemies Throughout History & In The Days Before The Coming Millennium & Victory Of His Church, by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
The Lord Rejects Religious Toleration And Humanistic Egalitarianism: Letter To The Church At Pergamos, by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
The Symbol Of The Protestant Reformation (Classic Reformed Teaching/Doctrine On Biblical Prophecy/Eschatology & The Reformers!), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
Revelation Audio Commentary, by Dr. Steven Dilday (250+ Free MP3s To Revelation Chapter 11, With Much More To Come, Lord Willing, As Of This Writing)
If you are looking for a detailed contemporary Reformed audio commentary on Revelation, with much practical application, this is the best you will find.
First of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Solved, First Seal Opened, Rider on the White Horse, A Bow, A Crown, and Conquering by Dr. Steven Dilday (5 Free Christian Sermon MP3s)
The Antichrist (Man of Sin) and Interpretations of the Book of Revelation (Eschatology, Prophecy) Among the Early Church Fathers by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)
Revelation and How Antichrist Gains A Foothold In the Church, In Your Heart and In Your Family by Dr. Steven Dilday (5 Free MP3)
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Now, Christians, the more great and glorious things you expect from God, as the downfall of antichrist, the conversion of the Jews, the conquest of the nations to Christ, the breaking of all yokes, the new Jerusalem's coming down from above, the extraordinary pouring out of the Spirit, and a more general union among all saints, the more holy, yea, the more eminently holy in all your ways and actings it becomes you to be. - Thomas Brooks, The Crown and Glory of Christianity, 1662, Complete Works (on the Puritan Hard Drive), 1867, p. 444
Many Antichrists? by Dr. Steven Dilday (5 Free MP3)
How Reformed Churches Imitate the Papal Antichrist, the 4th Trumpet Revelation, Etc. by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
Prophecy, Reformed Apologetics, Presuppositionalism, Cornelius Van Til, Greg Bahnsen, Gordon Clark and R.C. Sproul by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3,fourth item down at this link)
Islam In Revelation (The Satanic Origins of the Islamic Heresy) by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)
This is the first of 12 free MP3 sermons covering Islam in Revelation in Dr. Dilday's fine audio commentary of the book of Revelation. See the 11 sermons that follow this sermon at "Revelation Audio Commentary by Dr. Steven Dilday" for much more detail about what the book of Revelation teaches about the rise and fall of Islam.
Christ Will Completely Destroy Islam As Prophesied In The Bible, Book Of Revelation by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
The Mystery of Iniquity Worketh by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
Commentary On Revelation, Part 3, Historicism, Preterism, Futurism, Idealism and Revelation 1 by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
PREMILLENNIALISM AND AMILLENNIALISM REFUTED FROM SCRIPTURE, BY MODERN DAY PURITAN MINISTER GREG PRICE (SWRB Blog)
Covenanting In the Bible and In the Future (As Prophesied In Biblical Prophecy) By Pastor Jim Dodson, Pastor Greg Price and Pastor James Willson (Many Free SWRB MP3s, PDFs and Videos)
FREE MP3s & PDFs: PRETERISM REFUTED - PARTIAL PRETERISM & FULL PRETERISM REFUTED - PASTOR GREG PRICE (SWRB Blog)
The Beast and False Prophet, Reformation Eschatology, By Greg Price (4 Free MP3s)
Who Is the Beast of Revelation and 666? By Greg Price (5 Free MP3s)
Reformation Historicism On 666 and the First, Sea, Beast Of Revelation 13 By Greg Price (4 Free MP3s)
Antichrist Unmistakably Revealed, by Pastor Greg Price, John Calvin, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, W.J. Mencarow, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, J.A. Wylie, Richard Bennett, John Foxe, George Gillespie, David Steele and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, VIdeos and Books)
Identifying the Ten Horns In the Book of Revelation & the Little Horn, by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF)
Reformation Eschatology, The Millennium & the Victory of Christ's Kingdom (1/2) by Greg Price(Micah Series, Free MP3)
Reformation Eschatology, The Millennium & the Victory of Christ's Kingdom (2/2) by Greg Price(Micah Series, Free MP3)
Israel Turns To Christ (1/2) The Restoration of the Jews by Greg Price (Micah Series, Free MP3)
Israel Turns To Christ (2/2) The Restoration of the Jews by Greg Price (Micah Series, Free MP3)
Commentary On the Westminster Confession of Faith by Jim Dodson (Ongoing Series, Free SWRB MP3s, Splendid Teaching On the Best Confession Of Faith Ever Written!)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 1/23, Introduction to Haggai 1/4, Zechariah, Malachi, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 2/23, Haggai 2/4, Millennial Church, Revelation, Etc., by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
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"Now, Christians, the more great and glorious things you expect from God, as the downfall of antichrist, the conversion of the Jews, the conquest of the nations to Christ, the breaking of all yokes, the new Jerusalem's coming down from above, the extraordinary pouring out of the Spirit, and a more general union among all saints, the more holy, yea, the more eminently holy in all your ways and actings it becomes you to be." - Thomas Brooks, The Crown and Glory of Christianity, 1662, Complete Works (on the Puritan Hard Drive), 1867, p. 444
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 3/23, Haggai 3/4, Gospel & Millennial Prophecies, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 4/23, Haggai 4/4, Glories Of the Coming Millennium, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 5/23, Zechariah 1/16, Prophecy, Covenant Theology, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 6/23, Zechariah 2/16, Worship, Mystery Babylon ..., by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 7/23, Zechariah 3/16, Antichrist, Postmillennialism, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 8/23, Zechariah 4/16, Spiritual Warfare, Justified, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
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Faith imbued with zeal for the honour of Christ and the glory of God will have no sympathy with the defeatism which is, after all, but disguised fatalism. He who is head over all things is head over all things to his body the Church. He has all authority in heaven and in earth. And he is the Lord of the Spirit. Implicit in the prayer he taught his disciples to pray, 'thy will be done as in heaven so in earth,' is the prayer that the whole earth should be filled with his praise. Nothing less is the measure of the believer's desire. 'And blessed be his glorious name for ever; and let the whole earth be filled with his glory' (Psalm 72:19). - Prof. John Murray, Collected Writings, Vol. 2, p. 350, emphases added
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 9/23, Zechariah 5/16 Holy Spirit, Postmillennialism, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 10/23, Zechariah 6/16 Covenant Blessings & Curses, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 11/23, Zechariah 7/16, National Blessings, Curses, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
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"Prophecy shows that a time is coming when the Kingdom of Christ shall triumph over all opposition and prevail in all the world. The Romish Antichrist shall be utterly destroyed. The Jews shall be converted to Christianity. The fullness of the Gentiles shall be brought in and all mankind shall possess the knowledge of the Lord. The truth in its illuminating, regenerating and sanctifying efficacy shall be felt everywhere, so that the multitudes of all nations shall serve the Lord. Knowledge, love, holiness, and peace shall reign through the abundant outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Arts, sciences, literature, and property shall be consecrated to the advancement of the kingdom of Christ. The social institutions of men shall be regulated by gospel principles, and the nations as such shall consecrate their strength to the Lord. Oppression and tyranny shall come to an end. The nations, instead of being distracted by wars, shall be united in peace. The inhabitants of the world shall be exceedingly multiplied, and pure and undefiled religion shall exert supreme dominion over their hearts and lives so that happiness shall abound. This blessed period shall be of long duration." - The 1901 Testimony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 12/23, Zechariah 8/16 Love, God's Law, Worship, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 13/23, Zechariah 9/16, Reformed Worship, Romans 11, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 14/23, Zechariah 10/16 God Destroys Papacy, Islam, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 15/23, Zechariah 11/16, Postmillennial Historicism, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 16/23, Zechariah 12/16 Revival, Jews Converted, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 17/23, Zechariah 13/16 Christ's Eschatology Of Victory, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 18/23, Zechariah 14/16, Antichrist, Papacy, Islam, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 19/23, Zechariah 15/16 Worldwide Reformation, Joy, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 20/23, Zechariah 16/16, Christ, Millennium, Victory, God's Plan For the Church Through History To the End Of the Millennium, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 21/23, Malachi 1/3, False Worship Destroys Churches, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 22/23, Malachi 2/3, Purity, Worship, Doctrine, Sex, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets 23/23, Malachi 3/3, Reformed Theology, Worship God, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
Christ Converts Nations & Crushes His Enemies, the Jews Are Converted, the Millennium, Etc.(Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism #17, Synoptic Gospels) by Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF) - From the 44 Free MP3 Series Below
Postmillennialism, by Pastor Jim Dodson (44 Free Reformation MP3s) - Defends Biblical [Reformation] Historicism and Postmillennialism from every book of the Bible and every chapter in Revelation! Outstanding exegesis that is extraordinarily edifying!
Biblical Prophecy & Postmillennialism 42, Revelation 20, Satan Bound, the Millennium by Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF, from the 44 free MP3 series above.)
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"Moreover, to kings, princes, rulers, and magistrates, we affirm that chiefly and most principally the conservation and purgation of the religion appertains; so that not only they are appointed for civil policy, but also for maintenance of the true religion, and for suppressing of idolatry and superstition whatsoever: as in David, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, Josiah, and others, highly commended for their zeal in that case, may be espied." The Scottish Confession of Faith (written by John Knox and others), Chapter 24, 1560.
Why Many More People Will Be Saved Than Lost: Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism #20, Pauline Eschatology #2 (2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Etc.), by Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) Scholar Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF)
Best Reformed Audio Commentary On the Book Of Revelation, by Dr. Steven Dilday (250+ Free MP3s)
Mind-Blowing Biblical Prophecy Fulfilled To the Very Hour! God's Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnisapience, Etc., On Display In the Perfect Historical Fulfillments Of Prophecies, In the Book of Revelation, Regarding the Rise, Expansion and Fall Of Islam
Notes on the Apocalypse or A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (1870), by David Steele (Free MP3 Audio Book, Free Online Book, Printed Book, etc.)
PREMILLENNIALISM & AMILLENNIALISM REFUTED FROM SCRIPTURE BY MODERN DAY PURITAN MINISTER GREG PRICE (Free Reformation Resources)
Amillennialism and Premillennialism, as defeatist eschatologies that are refuted in the Bible, both stifle true full-orbed Biblical revival and Reformation. Postmillennialism, which is the Biblical eschatology, leads to revival and Reformation, on the largest of scales (by our Lord's marvelous sovereign grace).
Sample from the series above: God's Gracious Covenant With Israel #13 (Amillennialism Refuted From Scripture #1), by Greg Price (Free MP3 and PDF)
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Summary: An important and irrefutable refutation of Amillennialism from Scripture. This inspiring and spectacularly scriptural sermon deals with many of the "big picture" issues surrounding biblical eschatological interpretation — including when the binding of Satan takes place. A fascinating section of this message also contains numerous citations and explanations from the Bible related to the time of the future millennium — providing many scriptures demonstrating that God's Word prophesies that the nations, as nations (and "moral persons" to use classic Covenanter terminology), will come to Christ in a future worldwide Covenanted Reformation that will cover the whole Earth (Isa. 2:2-4, Psalm 72, Ezek. 47:1-12, etc.). The "realized millennium" of some Amillennialists is also dealt with, as is the Amillennial interpretation of "Israel," where special attention is given to Romans 11 and the part the future restoration of the Jews will play in the glorious days ahead when "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth" and "all nations shall serve him" (Psalm 72:8, 11 — and remember there are no nations in heaven, so these verses must be referring to a time in history prior to the final judgment!). If you are an Amillennialist this is one of the most important sermons you will ever hear! If you are not an Amillennialist this will be an extraordinarily encouraging message about the great victories of Christ's Kingdom, in history and on Earth, which are still in the future, according to what God has revealed in His Holy Word (Isaiah 2:2-4).
Postmillennialism and Revelation 20, by David Silversides (Free MP3, Scroll down on landing page.)
Completely refutes Amillennial from Scripture, while defending Biblical Postmillennialism.
Jonathan Edwards On Revelation, The Overthrow Of Antichrist & the Eschatology Of Victory, by Jonathan Edwards
Eschatology of Christ's Victory, by Dr. F.N. Lee (14 Free MP3s)
Always Victorious! The Earliest Church Not Pre- but Postmillennial, by Dr. F.N. Lee
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"Yet civil government has as its appointed end, so long as we live among men, to cherish and protect the outward worship of God, to defend sound doctrine of piety and the position of the church, to adjust our life to the society of men, to form our social behavior to civil righteousness, to reconcile us with one another, and to promote general peace and tranquility." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 4:20:2
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Eschatology of Christ's Victory, by Dr. F.N. Lee (14 Free MP3s)
Biblical (Reformation) Quotes On God's Decree, Predestination and Reformed Theology (With Many Free Puritan and Reformed MP3s. Books, and Videos)
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The Decrees of God: God From All Eternity Did Freely and Unchangeably Ordain Whatsoever Comes To Pass; God By The Most Wise And Holy Counsel Of His Own Will Did Freely Ordain Whatsoever Comes To Pass, By Ferrell Griswold (2 Free MP3s)
How Reformed Churches Imitate the Papal Antichrist, the Fourth Trumpet Of Revelation Solved, Classic Reformed Eschatology (Historicism), Etc., by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free Reformed MP3)
Identifying the Great Apostasy, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3) (Free MP3)
God's Omnipotence (Free Puritan, Covenanter and Reformation Resources and Christian Quotations)
The Holiness of God, The Antithesis of All Moral Blemish (Attributes of God #8), Arthur W. Pink (Free MP3), With Many More Puritan and Reformed Resources and Quotations About God's Holiness By Stephen Charnock, John Calvin, William Perkins & Other Puritans and Reformers
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