Has Jesuit Eschatology Overtaken Protestantism?

Has Jesuit (Roman Catholic, Romanist) Eschatology Overtaken Protestantism?

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• "The Counter Reformation is generally considered to have three aspects: the Jesuits, the Inquisition, and the Council of Trent. In view of the significance of the Protestant apocalyptic interpretation of history which prophetically pinpointed step by step the events covering the whole Christian era from the beginning to the end (i.e. Historicism - ed.), it seems justifiable to suggest a fourth aspect, namely the preteristic (Preterism - ed.) and futuristic (Futurism - ed.) interpretations launched by Catholic expositors as a counterattack." - Kevin Reed, from his book review titled "The Ecclesiology of John Foxe: A book review by Kevin Reed of John Foxe and the Elizabethan Church by V. Norskov Olsen, 1973, citing Olsen on p. 47.

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.)

• Contrary to Futurism and Preterism, all the classic Reformation confessions, creeds, covenants and catechisms are Historicist when dealing with eschatology. - Dr. Reg Barrow, Founder and President of Still Waters Revival Books

Biblical Prophecy (Postmillennialism and Historicism), Pastor Jim Dodson, 44 Remarkable Free MP3s About Classic Reformation Eschatology

• "... when the classic historicist position is studied, the 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 in Revelation: Four Views, p. 176.

Perfect Historical Fulfillments Of Prophecies, In the Book of Revelation, Regarding the Rise, Expansion and Fall Of Islam

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.)

• "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." (Isa. 2:2, KJV)

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)

• 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

• A third reason why Nero Caesar is not a suitable identification for the number of the beast (666) is that for nearly 1700 years no one in the Church was known or recorded (to the best of my knowledge) to offer Nero's name as the number of the beast (666). Moses Stuart (Commentary on the Apocalypse, pp. 457-458, 1845), himself a Preterist, identifies Professor Benary of Berlin (c. 1840) as the first recorded scholar to propose Nero Caesar (and particularly Nero Caesar in Hebrew letters) as the name of the beast. Although it is not impossible that the true meaning of the number of the beast (666) might be hidden from the whole Church until about 1840, it does seem very unlikely that such would be the case, especially when Nero Caesar is not known to have been even mentioned by any coming from the first century (prior to 70 a.d.) to whom (according to the Preterist) the Book of Revelation was intended. According to the Preterist, those to whom the apostle John wrote the Book of Revelation were suppose to understand that Nero Caesar was intended by the number of the beast, and yet there is not a trace or even the mention of Nero Caesar as the name of the beast prior to about 1840. That seems remarkable to me. - 666 & God's Gracious Covenant With Israel #22 (Partial & Full Preterism Refuted #6) by Greg Price (Free MP3)

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• If there was the explicit and preponderant EXTERNAL EVIDENCE for a banishment of John by Nero as has been presented for Domitian, Preterists would reveal it and would claim that the EXTERNAL EVIDENCE clearly weighs in their favor. However, when one finds some of the chief proponents of Preterism from the past, like Professor Moses Stuart who was quoted earlier in the sermon and like Dr. Fenton John Anthony Hort of Cambridge who stated that "if external evidence alone could decide, there would be a clear preponderance for Domitian" (The Apocalypse of St. John, p. xx), it becomes clear that EXTERNAL EVIDENCE weighs far more heavily in the direction of Domitian (c. 95 a.d.) having banished John to the Isle of Patmos for his bearing testimony to Christ (in accordance with Revelation 1:9) rather than Nero (c. 66 a.d) having banished John to the Isle of Patmos. - See much more on this topic at 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 (15 FREE MP3s and PDFs) AND MUCH MORE

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

• 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)

• "Alas, I knew they (i.e., the Jesuits) would poison me; but I did not expect to die in so slow and cruel a manner." (1774) - Pope Clement XIV (Who had "forever" abolished the Jesuit Order in 1773)

The Jesuits (2 of 4) From The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie (Free SWRB MP3)

• "The Society of Jesus (i.e., the Jesuit Order) is the enemy of man. The whole human race should unite for its overthrow. ... For there is no alternative between its total extirpation, and the absolute corruption and degradation of mankind." - Robert J. Breckinridge (Presbyterian)

The Jesuits (3 of 4) From The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie (Free SWRB MP3)

• "Above all I have learned from the Jesuits. And so did Lenin too, as far as I recall. The world has never known anything quite so splendid as the hierarchical structure of the (Roman) Catholic Church. There were quite a few things I simply appropriated from the Jesuits for the use of the (Nazi) Party." - Adolph Hitler (1889-1945; Genocidal Nazi leader and chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945)

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)

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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)

• 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)

• "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." (Isa. 2:2, KJV)

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)

• 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)

• "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)

• "Because of their outlook upon the future all Scottish missionary leaders took the long-term view in evangelization, that is to say, they did not regard the number of individual converts in the present as the first consideration, but rather that energy should be deployed in work which would have the maximum influence upon nations in subsequent generations." - Iain Murray, The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation Of Prophecy

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)

• 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)

• "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)

• "O to see the sight, next to Christ's coming in the clouds, the most joyful! Our elder brethren the Jews and Christ fall upon one another; they will be kind to one another when they meet. O day! O longed for and lovely day-dawn! O sweet Jesus, let me see that sight which will be as life from the dead, thee and thy ancient people in mutual embraces." - Samuel Rutherford, Letters Of Samuel Rutherford, 1635, on the Puritan Hard Drive

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)

• "The day shall yet come when the Jews, who were the first apostles to the Gentiles, the first missionaries to us who were afar off, shall be gathered in again. ... Matchless benefits to the world are bound up with the restoration of Israel; their gathering in shall be as life from the dead." - Cited in Murray, The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy, p. 256

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)

• We feel disposed to regard it as something more than a baseless vision of imagination which leads us to hope that the period is not distant when the mighty principles of the Westminster Standards shall be more extensively recognized than they have ever yet been, and shall put forth an energy of influence on society hitherto unknown. - William Symington,Historical Sketch of the Westminster Assembly, pp. 42-43.

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)

• They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. - Isa. 11:9, KJV

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.)

• "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

• "In fact, when the classic historicist position is studied, the 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 Revelation 9:1-6 in Revelation: Four Views: A Parallel Commentary, p. 176, emphases added).

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)

• 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

• "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

Identifying the Great Apostasy, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3); The 1,260 Days Of Revelation (The Year Day Theory In Classic Protestant Eschatological Thought and Scripture), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3); and the Best Free Reformed Audio Commentaries On Revelation

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Biblical Prophecy & Postmillennialism 32, Revelation 10, Antichrist, the Great Apostasy by Jim Dodson (Free MP3 & PDF)

Biblical Prophecy & Postmillennialism 38, Revelation 16, The Great Apostasy Ending, Armageddon, Downfall of Antichrist, 666, Etc. by Jim Dodson(Free MP3 and PDF)

Precisely Identifying the Great Apostasy

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.)

The Fall Of Babylon the Great & Covenanting, by Archibald Mason (Free MP3 Audio Book, PDF) & Related Resources

• And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. (Isa. 2:2, KJV)

The Roman Catholic (Jesuit) Origins of Futurism and Preterism

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)

• There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. - Isa. 65:20, KJV

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)

Mystery Babylon the Great (Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism 39, Revelation 17), by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF)

Postmillennialism and Revelation 20, by David Silversides (Free MP3)

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A Reformed View of Angels, Demons, and the Devil, by Dr. Steven Dilday (From His Commentary On Revelation) and Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3s & PDFs)

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Commentary On Revelation #121-#128, A Reformed View of Angels, Part 1-8, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)

Commentary On Revelation #129, A Reformed (and Sober) Demonology, Dr. Steven Dilday (Free SWRB MP3)

Commentary On Revelation #223, The Four Tempest Angels Revisited, Dr. Steven Dilday (Free SWRB MP3)

Commentary On Revelation #230, The Devil and Demons, Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)

The sermons above are from Dr. Dilday's exposition of the book of Revelation. Dr. Dilday's full Historicist (the classic Reformation eschatology) series of free MP3s on Revelation, the best commentary on Revelation in a very long time (maybe even the best ever), is ongoing and is at https://www.sermonaudio.com/go/147582 (on SermonAudio).

Some other samples from Dr. Dilday's Revelation commentary series follow below:

Commentary On Revelation #231, Identifying the Great Apostasy, Dr. Steven Dilday (Free SWRB MP3)

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 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, Scroll Down on Landing Page)

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 on the book of Revelation. See the 11 sermons that follow this sermon here (and beyond) for much more detail about what the book of Revelation teaches about the rise and fall of Islam.

Commentary On Revelation #95, The Apologetics of Prophecy, Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3, A Must Listen!)

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)

Revelation and How Antichrist Gains A Foothold In the Church, In Your Heart and In Your Family by Dr. Steven Dilday (5 Free SWRB MP3s)

Angels and Demons, by Pastor Jim Dodson (13 Free SWRB MP3s)

Demon Possession in Early America & Defeating Demons, Satan, etc., by Cotton Mather (Free SWRB MP3s)

Satanism, Witchcraft, Demons and Drugs - Satanic Possession, Oppression & the Occult, by Ferrell Griswold (Free MP3)

The Grace & Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, by John Owen (6 Free MP3s)

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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)

• On The Mortification of Sin in Believers 1 of 6, by John Owen (Free MP3)
• On The Mortification of Sin in Believers 2 of 6, by John Owen (Free MP3)
• On The Mortification of Sin in Believers 3 of 6, by John Owen (Free MP3)
• On The Mortification of Sin in Believers 4 of 6, by John Owen (Free MP3)
• On The Mortification of Sin in Believers 5 of 6, by John Owen (Free MP3)
• On The Mortification of Sin in Believers 6 of 6, by John Owen (Free MP3)

• "Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death." - John Owen (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)

Hardness of Heart in Christians, Why Hast Thou Hardened Our Heart From Thy Fear? by John Owen (Free MP3), The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded by John Owen (6 Free MP3) and Much More

• The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. - John Owen (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)

The Remainders of Indwelling Sin: The Nature, Power and Deceit Of It, By John Owen, Dr. Steven Dilday, Jonathan Edwards, Dr. R.C. Sproul, Thomas Watson, Paul Washer, the Westminster Divines, Dr. Joel Beeke, Stephen Charnock, Greg Price, John Calvin, Jim Dodson, Thomas Boston, Bill Mencarow, Arthur Pink, Al Martin, Thomas Ridgeley, Christopher Love and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos, Books, Etc.)

• "Neglect of private prayer and meditation comes from a weariness of God, as Isaiah complains (Isa. 43:22). But God alone is the fountain and spring of spiritual life. Any withdrawing from him must bring about a decline, for what we are in private duties, that we are, and no more. If this root fails, all fruit will quickly fail. Just as a tree must decay, wither and droop if the root fails, so must our souls." - John Owen (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)

160 Free MP3s by John Owen (from SWRB at Sermonaudio)

FREE MP3: John Owen Represbyterianized 1 of 2 - How John Owen Went From Presbyterianism To Independency And Back To Presbyterianism Again

• Dr. Francis Nigel Lee, in John Owen Represbyterianized, also wrote, "The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that Britain's great Puritan Theologian... John Owen, was essentially not a Congregationalist but a Presbyterian. He first pastored a Presbyterian Church. On his deathbed, he re-affirmed Presbyterianism."

FREE MP3: John Owen Represbyterianized 2 of 2 - How John Owen Went From Presbyterianism To Independency And Back To Presbyterianism Again

• JOHN OWEN ON WORSHIP (11 FREE MP3s)

• John Girardeau, in his Instrumental Music in the Public Worship of the Church (pp. 24-25) also writes, "The words of the great theologian, John Owen 'and the British Isles have produced no greater' are solemn and deserve to be seriously pondered: 'The principle that the church hath power to institute any thing or ceremony belonging to the worship of God, either as to matter or manner, beyond the observance of such circumstances as necessarily attend such ordinances as Christ Himself hath instituted, lies at the bottom of all the horrible superstition and idolatry, of all the confusion, blood, persecution, and wars, that have for so long a season spread themselves over the face of the Christian world' (cited in John Owen's A Discourse Concerning Liturgies and their Imposition, see below)."

• Antichrist's (Rome's) Idolatry Rebuked 1 of 2, by John Owen (Web Page)
• Antichrist's (Rome's) Idolatry Rebuked 2 of 2, by John Owen (Web Page)

Concerning Liturgies & Their Imposition #1 Puritan/Reformation Worship Vs. Innovations of Antichrist/Rome & Her Harlot Daughters by John Owen (Free MP3)

Concerning Liturgies & Their Imposition #2 Puritan/Reformation Worship Vs. Innovations of Antichrist/Rome & Her Harlot Daughters by John Owen (Free MP3)

Concerning Liturgies & Their Imposition #3 Puritan/Reformation Worship Vs. Innovations of Antichrist/Rome & Her Harlot Daughters by John Owen (Free MP3)

Concerning Liturgies & Their Imposition #4 Puritan/Reformation Worship Vs. Innovations of Antichrist/Rome & Her Harlot Daughters by John Owen (Free MP3s)

God's Will Vs. Man's Will In Worship, Romanism and Arminianism In Worship Are Heresy (The Plausibility Of Will Worship To Worldly Wisdom, Colossians 2:23, the Regulative Principle Of Worship [RPW], Etc.), By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Greg Price, Westminster Divines, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, Kevin Reed, John Flavel, Thomas Watson, William Perkins and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos, Books, Etc.)

Why Most Worship Is Actually Idolatry, Which God Hates, According To the Bible (the Second Commandment Or The Regulative Principle Of Worship, RPW) By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Greg Price, the Westminster Assembly, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, et al. (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos, Books, Etc.)

Christ-Mass (Christmas) A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy, Classic Reformation (Puritan & Reformed) Teaching On Christmas and Other Holy Days; Or Christmas, and All Man-Made Holy Days, Condemned By the Lord Jesus Christ In the Bible (Free MP3s, Videos & Online Books)

• In his Notes on the Apocalypse, the famous Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) minister, David Steele, called John Owen, "... that prince of divines among English Dissenters."

John Owen (7 of 18, Introduction and Overview of the Puritans) Who Were the Puritans and What Did They Teach? (With the Relevance of Puritanism For Christians Today) by Dr. Matthew McMahon (Free MP3s)

• John Owen was "(arguably) the greatest thinking English Puritan Theologian that ever lived." - Dr. C. Matthew McMahon (A Puritan Mind)

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone, Through the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ -- Explained, Confirmed, Vindicated (35 Free MP3s)

• "We can begin each day with the deeply encouraging realization, I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ." - John Owen (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)

A Display of Arminianism: Being A Discovery of the Old Pelagian Idol of Free Will, With the New Goddess Contingency Advancing Themselves Into the Throne of the God of Heaven, to the Prejudice of His Grace, Providence, and Supreme Dominion Over the Children of Men..., by John Owen

• "Our next task is to take a view of the idol himself, of this great deity of free-will, whose original being not well known, he is pretended, like the Ephesian image of Diana, to have fallen down from heaven, and to have his endowments from above. But yet, considering what a nothing he was at his first discovery in comparison of the vast giant-like hugeness to which now he is grown, we may say of him as the painter said of his monstrous picture, which he had mended or rather marred according to every one's fancy, 'Hunc populus fecit,' it is the issue of the people's brain." - John Owen, A Display of Arminianism (Canada: Still Waters Revival Books, 1989), p. 114 (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)

John Owen - Quotes and Books

• "To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is to overthrow the gospel and the faith of the universal church in all ages." - John Owen, The Holy Spirit (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)

Thousand of Free Puritan and Reformed Resources, By John Owen and Many Others (Free MP3s, Videos, Book, Quotes, Etc.)