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Title: Last Days Madness: Obsession of the Modern Church by Gary Demar ISBN: 0-915815-35-4 Publisher: American Vision Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding Scriptural Response to "Rapture" Fever!!!
Comment: In his work "End Times Fiction", Gary DeMar responds to the specific beliefs promoted in the "Left Behind" series. In this book, DeMar responds more extensively to the general beliefs of dispensational premillennialism. Before going any further I must add that a good understanding of dispensational eschatology is a pre-requisite for reading this book. If one needs a primer on eschatology, this work ISN'T it. If a person, however, needs a good Scriptural assessment of the amazingly popular dispensational eschatology, then this book is the absolute best!
DeMar's volume is annotated enough to be respectable to the average scholar, yet straightforward enough to be readable to the average student. He is thorough, yet concise. Even for persons who may not hold a preterist viewpoint, this book is a classic critique that no theological bookshelf should be lacking.
DeMar explores all the hot end-times themes, including the rapture, the great tribulation, the nation of Israel, the "seventy weeks" of Daniel, the antichrist, the dragon, the beast, the mark of the beast, the man of lawlessness, mystery babylon, the battle of Armageddon, and the "day of the Lord."
I have a very high regard for the Bible, believing it is God's inerrant word and MUST be allowed to speak for itself. I am very pleased with the way DeMar has simply sought to interpret what the Scriptures say, rather than trying to fit them into a preconceived system as so many other persons have done.
Get it! Read it! It will be money well-spent.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gary Demar the great
Comment: Last Days madness is not for any one who has is compelled to some creed written in stone. If one has some belief different than Gary Demar that person will certainly be injured deeply. Gary Denar is absolutely superior and ruthless in his proof and his goading style to those whose paucious theology cannot hold water. Gary is not arrogant he is just to the point and so accurate in that he obviously knows the languages and returns to them to show word and use consistency of the use of words and terms that speak more truly rather than of the inconsistencies of the intepreters whose creeds have gotten in the way of scholarship and theology. The book is demanding and it expects that if you don't know the Bible you will be compelled to learn it for sure. The book is also not for the lazy. You must Love Gary he is the equivalent of Rush Limbaugh and Michel Medved to talk radio. He makes reading the bible fun. He makes the words of Jesus true and believable and they mean what he says. Other creeds have Jesus Christ looking like a fool and utter stuff that makes no sense. Gary Demar makes Christ's and the Apostles words maingful and worth reading with real Joy. Please the book is not for the Lazy. It will keep you up at night learning to truly enjoy the Bible as God meant it to be enjoy and that is as talking with God. The book brings about and greater joy and understanding because Jesus does have somthing to say that is worth reading. Loved it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good argument for preterism
Comment: This book is an argument for the preterist position with respect to eschatology (the end times or last days), and particularly the passage in Matthew 24. I approached this book as one relatively ignorant of the preterist position. After only the first three chapters, I found the arguments very compelling in favor of this position, though even now after reading the whole book I am not fully convinced of the full argument.
DeMar makes the argument in a systematic fashion, going through Matthew 24 and related passages in scripture, making the case that those events should be associated with the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 A.D. Along the way, he makes frequent references to dispensationalism, another leading (and competing) theological stance with its own view of eschatology and Matthew 24. These references are typically to argue against the dispensationalist position, both on the issue at hand and against the underpinnings of the dispensational system of theology.
There are two reasons I do not give this book a full five stars. First, the author becomes somewhat repetitive to the point of annoyance. This is not in relation to the argument, but to the writing style. Conclusions of earlier arguments are brought up again and again (especially the claim that Matthew 24 only applies to the destruction of the temple) even though they don't necessarily apply to the current topic (in my opinion). Admittedly, this may be a pedagogical tool, but it is applied heavily. Second, in limited cases I think the author had a tendency to ignore other possible interpretations of passages that could be valid but do not support his position (e.g., a treatment of II Peter 3 in the appendices). These very limited cases do not necessarily detract from the overall argument, but require additional study on the part of the reader.
I recommend this book for those interested in learning about the case for preterism, as it has been very beneficial in my personal study of the issue.
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Title: End Times Fiction A Biblical Consideration Of The Left Behind Theology by Gary DeMar ISBN: 0785266429 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Last Days According to Jesus by R. C. Sproul ISBN: 080106340X Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation by Kenneth L. Gentry ISBN: 0915815435 Publisher: American Vision Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Days of Vengeance: An Exposition of the Book of Revelation by David Chilton ISBN: 0930462092 Publisher: Inst for Christian Economics Pub. Date: November, 2011 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Parousia : The New Testament Doctrine of Our Lord's Second Coming Bible by J. Stuart Russell ISBN: 0801077257 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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