David send me this rel="nofollow"> rel=”nofollow”>link to the rapture song. Good stuff - brings back the memories.

Bob
Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Some Christians are surprised when they first hear of differing rewards in Heaven, believing it incompatible with their concept of Paradise. But in fact, most of the church has historically held to this understanding with the Scriptural support quite strong. The Reformed position also agrees with this, as made clear by the study notes in the Reformation Study Bible (i.e., see the study note for 2 Cor 5:10).

God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men’s curiosity by enabling them to fore know things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and His own providence, not the interpreters, be thereby manifested to the world.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

I’ve always been fascinated by Sir Isaac Newton, arguably the greatest scientist of all time. Unknown to many, he was also a Christian of deep faith, writing extensively on various theological topics. And now comes word that using the book of Daniel, he calculated the date of the apocalypse to be 2060. Remember that he wrote this some 300 years ago. It’s also interesting to see that he interpreted biblical prophecies to mean that the Jews would return to the Palestine before the world ends.

Ed Komoszewski gives a superb primer on Biblical Dispensationalism. Biblical eschatology is one area where my personal views are somewhat in flux.

Interesting blog by Michael Patton here: http://www.ttpstudents.com/content/blog/MichaelPatton/thenext100years

Michael sums it up well, “God willing, we will wait on God and see what the next 100 years has in store for his glory, whether by our life or His judgment.”

Bob
Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Extract:
“Yahoo! Answers” has posted their year end best questions list. Stephen Hawking took first place with his meta-anthropological/eschatological question “How can the human race survive the next 100 years?” Many of you know that Dr. Hawking has served his life as a prolific theoretical physicist, contributing much to the realm of cosmology.