“Explosive Church Growth” in Iran, Reports Say

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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)

Biblical Prophecy, Historicism and Postmillennialism, by Pastor Jim Dodson (44 free MP3s, one the best audio series about classic Reformation eschatology!

Biblical Prophecy, Historicism and Postmillennialism 41, Revelation 19, Christ Conquers All Nations, by Pastor Jim Dodson (This is one of the 44 sermons (free MP3s) from the series above defending Biblical Eschatology. Biblical eschatology is called Historicism. Historicism is found in all the classic Reformation confessions, creeds, covenants and catechisms, when they deal with eschatology.)

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)

The Great Eastern Antichrist Is Islam, by Pastor Jim Dodson (One of the free MP3s from the 44 MP3 series, Biblical Prophecy, listed above.)

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

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, Scroll Down on Landing Page)*

Summary: If you want to hear something truly amazing about God (and His Word, the Bible), listen to the first MP3 on the page linked above, on Revelation 9:15, entitled, 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 by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3, Rev. 9:15). "And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men." This sermon will help build your trust in God, encourage you through difficulties, and give you the peace that passes understanding (Philippians 4:7) -- if you take this stunning sermon from Scripture to heart. This is sermon #224 in Dr. Dilday's exposition of the book of Revelation. Dr. Dilday's full Historicist series on Revelation, the best commentary on Revelation in a very long time (maybe even the best ever), is ongoing and is on SermonAudio.

Islam (Muslims) In Bible Prophecy, In the Book of Revelation

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).

The Roman Catholic (Jesuit) Origins of Futurism and Preterism

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 page 47. All emphases added above.

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, Books, Etc.)

Nothing is more certainly foretold than this national conversion of the Jews in Romans 11. - Jonathan Edwards, The History of Redemption in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 1,  Banner of Truth Trust, reprint, 1976, p. 607, and as free audio (16 free MP3s) under the title, History of Redemption (Salvation): God's Work, Creation To Judgment Day, With Edward's Postmillennial Eschatology of Victory.

The Restoration of the Jews (Israel) In Reformed Eschatology (Free MP3s, Videos, etc.)

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 Iain Murray, The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy, p. 256.

*Amillennialism Refuted From Scripture - Greg Price - Reformation & Puritan Eschatology Defended

An important and irrefutable refutation of Amillennialism from Scripture.

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. - Isaiah 65:20, KJV

Amillennialism Refuted, Premillennialism Refuted, By Revelation 20, Silversides, Price, Dodson, Free

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 (see Isa. 2:2-4 - ed.). 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, emphases added; for more information see History of Redemption (Salvation) #16: God's Work, Creation To Judgment Day, With Edward's Postmillennial Eschatology of Victory (Free MP3).

PREMILLENNIALISM & AMILLENNIALISM REFUTED FROM SCRIPTURE BY MODERN DAY PURITAN MINISTER GREG PRICE

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; for more information see History of Redemption (Salvation) #15: God's Work, Creation To Judgment Day, With Edward's Postmillennial Eschatology of Victory (Free MP3).

Reformation, Restoration Prophets (23 Free SWRB MP3s, By A True Covenanter), Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, by Pastor Jim Dodson

Another instance in which posterity is recognized in covenant obligation is found in Joshua 9:15. This covenant was made between the children of Israel and the Gibeonites. Between four and five hundred years after that time, the children of Israel are visited with a very severe famine, in the days of David. 2 Sam. 21:1. And it is expressly declared by the Lord that, 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.' And at the same time, v. 2, that very covenant is recognized, and the breach of it is stated, as being the formal reason of the divine displeasure. Now, had it not been for this covenant, the extirpation of the Gibeonites would not have been imputed to Israel as a thing criminal; for they were comprehended in Canaanitish nations, which God had commanded them to root out. - William L. Roberts, The Reformed Presbyterian Catechism (1853, emphases added), pp. 139-140, on the Puritan Hard Drive

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)

(Excerpt, emphases added): 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) -- 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

Eschatology of Victory In the Bible (Eschatology of Victory Series), by Dr. Francis Nigel Lee (14 Free MP3s)

(Excerpt, emphases added): 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) h - 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 

Prophecy Fulfillment Series, by Dr. F.N. Lee (13 Free MP3s)