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Jesus and the Future: Understanding What He Taught About the End Times by Andreas J. Köstenberger & Alexander Stewart & Apollo Makara [Köstenberger, Andreas J. & Stewart, Alexander & Makara, Apollo] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Jesus and the Future: Understanding What He Taught About the End Times about?

This book is written for readers just like you. It’s not written for the experts and Bible scholars but for anyone interested in what the future holds, especially for Christians. Jesus and the Future is about what scholars call “eschatology,” the study of last things. For many, when it comes to the end times, the Bible is a closed book, and sadly, scholars have contributed to this malaise. This is ironic because the Bible envisages an open heaven—not a closed book!—for Jesus’ followers.In this book, we’d like to do our small part to set people free from what you might call the “Babylonian captivity” when it comes to the Bible’s teaching about the future. The original Babylonian captivity, of course, was Israel’s exile in Babylon two and a half millennia ago. More recently, the term gained currency for the period preceding the Reformation when the papacy moved from Rome to Avignon in southern France as a sign of the church’s growing corruption.During both periods, God’s people were in exile, whether literally or figuratively, in the sense that they were essentially shut out from what God had for them. Similarly, today many Christians are bewildered by the scholarly jargon and compli

Who reads Jesus and the Future: Understanding What He Taught About the End Times?

Author

Andreas J. Köstenberger & Alexander Stewart & Apollo Makara [Köstenberger, Andreas J. & Stewart, Alexander & Makara, Apollo]

Publisher

Weaver Book Company

Published

2017

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Bible