I will never forget the day I received my letter of acceptance as a student to attend Dallas Theological Seminary. That day was a dream come true! I wanted to attend Dallas Seminary because of the big three that were on their faculty. For me the big three were Dr. J. Dwight Pentecost, Dr. John F. Walvoord, and Dr. Charles C. Ryrie. Dr. Ryrie was the last of the big three to enter into the presence of our Lord on February 16, 2016. They all lived into their 90s. Now there is a great reunion in heaven and we still have their tremendous influence left behind through the legacy of their lives and their writings...
On April 28, 2014, just four days after his ninety-ninth birthday, one of the greatest contributors to our study of Bible prophecy died and went to be with his Lord and Saviour in heaven. Dr. J. Dwight Pentecost has passed from this earthly scene and is now rejoicing in the presence of Christ. Dr. Pentecost will be missed by the many he left behind...
I attended the fourth bi-annual Christ at the Checkpoint Conference in Bethlehem, Israel on March 7–10, 2016. I am writing a book on Christian Zionism and this is one of the main “Christian” conferences in the world that advocates for Christian Palestinianism and against Christian Zionism, as the academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College stated in the above quote. There were about 400 people in attendance with about 100 of them native Arab Christians. The rest were primarily from the United States and Great Britain, about 100 of those were college students...
Since the 1970s in America, it has become commonplace for writers of articles and books against pretribulationism to bring up some form of the argument that Darby got key elements of his view from an Irvingite source. More recently a scholarly attempt is made by American Mark Patterson to see Irvingite eschatology as an antecedent source to Darby and pretribulationism...
Dr. Robert Gundry of Westmont College, a leading posttribulationist, stated in a personal letter to Thomas Ice in December 1995 that the presentation of Pseudo-Ephraem’s sermon by Demy and Ice has "renewed my interest in the topic." What topic? The rapture debate! Gundry authored a landmark book presenting a new form of posttribulationism in 1973 titled The Church and the Tribulation and had not produced a book on this subject until the summer of 1997 when First the Antichrist appeared. Included in First the Antichrist is a 27-page response to the claim of Timothy Demy and Thomas Ice that Pseudo-Ephraem’s (PE) sermon "On the Last Times, the Antichrist, and the End of the World" contains a pretribulational statement. It should come as no surprise that Gundry disagrees with our conclusion.,,