Message #5987

[Psalm 51:17]

FYI - here's an email I got from Pastor John Weaver when I asked him last year of what his escatology beliefs are.

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First, I would highly recommend that you get the book Last Days Madness by Gary DeMar.  It can be purchased from American Vision.  Just google it and it will come up.  It is an excellent book and will answer many questions.   Moreover, they have other wonderful materials there that would make good additions to any library.
 
I would lean more to the historical perspective on Daniel and Revelation.  You must remember that there are only 4 main views concerning eschatology.  First there is the post mill position which is the most historical position.  Second there is a historic pre-trip position (which did not include a rapture, etc), Spurgeon held this position and there is the Amill position that began in the 4th century under Augustine.  The dispensational pre-mill, rapture, 7 year trib view did not begin until the 1800's.  It has been reported that Margaret McDonald, a self styled prophetess, while speaking in tongues, came to this view and supposedly taught it to John Nelson Darby who taught it to Schofield who placed the view in his bible and hence you have the predominant view which is a johhny-come-lately to eschatology.  Ovid Need has an excellent book called The Death of the Church Victorious which will give you the complete history and details.  Another book was titled The Unbelievable Origin of the Pre-Trib Rapture Theory which gave much of the info.  The title has been changed to The Rapture Hoax or Plot.  American Vision will give you more info than you can digest!  Visit their store at http://www.americanvision.com/.
 
There is so much more involved in your questions.  You must know Who Israel is.  Listen to the 6 messages that I have on sermonaudio.com/weaver on Who is Israel.  All of this and much more is involved in eschatology.  There are many applications that can be made from books and prophecies that have been fulfilled.  I am sure that there are many today as well.  I urge you to get DeMar's book and read it several times and you will probably understand more than most preachers on the subject.  Pastor Weaver

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Don't get me wrong - I think Pastor Weaver preaches very sound sermons(and he's KJV-only, and also has exposed the 501c3 scam), however, while he didn't admit it directly, he sounds like he's a Preterist. He too seems to have bought hook, line, and sinker that Margaret MacDonald was the root source of this pre-trib rapture theory. And listening to a couple of his parts on "Who is Israel", he pretty much sounded like the Christian church replaces Israel in the latter days.