Our family is moving to a new city during the week of December 14, 2020. This move will disrupt my writing schedule, but I don’t want to miss any of my traditional Wednesday publishing dates.
A friend recently helped me find a solution to this dilemma without knowing he was doing so. He called to ask how inmillennialism—the prophetic model I have documented in this blog—accounts for 1 John 3:2. After discussing this passage with him, I realized that several new readers have subscribed to the blog since I addressed this passage in a post dated August 7, 2018. I also realized that I have written posts on other challenging passages that some readers may have not seen.
From these meditations, I developed a publishing plan. For the last three weeks of 2020, I will temporarily suspend our studies in 1 Thessalonians. I will republish three previous posts on passages that seem to contradict the inmillennial prophetic model. I will deal with 1 John 3:2 on December 16; Colossians 3:4 on December 23; and Acts 1:9–11 on December 30. I plan to return to 1 Thessalonians on January 6, 2021 to deal with 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14.
The following review appears in the current issue of the American Family Association Journal:
Inmillennialism: Redefining the Last Days1
Author Michael Rogers demonstrates sound scholarship as he mines the gold of God’s Word in a desire to learn more, teach more, and challenge believers to be open to new insights into the Scriptures. Yes, he has coined a new term, inmillennialism, to articulate a model of the last days and the second coming of Christ. His model respects both the Bible’s teaching and doctrines of the historical church.
“This book must take an important place in the literature concerning the kingdom of God, the manner of Christ’s coming at the end of the age, and the nature of the blessed hope,” according to Dr. Tom J. Nettles’s glowing foreword. Nettles is a former professor of historical theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1997 to 2014.
Rogers, a lifelong Bible student and retired engineer, did massive research for this well-documented volume. Redefining the Last Days includes an exhaustive bibliography and numerous appendices.
It is highly commended to students of prophecy and to all readers with high interest in the subject. Available at online booksellers.
Randall Murphree
The online booksellers include Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and Books-A-Million. A PDF edition is available from McGahan Publishing House.
Footnotes
- Randall Murphree, review of Inmillennialism: Redefining the Last Days, by Michael A. Rogers, AFA Journal 44 (Dec 2020): 29, https://afajournal.org/past-issues/2020/december/reviews-family-entertainment-documentaries-resources-books-music/
