LindaR

Neither word or deed? Oops...
By the way, does anyone know if he ever recanted this?

There's a good start there, though, for someone who might have the time to put a devotional series together!

Unless anyone has any direct comments on my review of the Larkin book on Revelation I would like to conclude this thread.

Alan

THE BELIEVER'S RICHES IN CHRIST FROM A TO Z
Accepted in the beloved (Ephesians 1:6)
Born of God (1 John 5:1)
Crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20)
Delivered from the power of darkness (Colossians 1:13)
Enriched in everything in Him (1 Corinthians 1:5)
Forgiven for Christ's sake (Ephesians 4:32)
Grounded in love (Ephesians 3:17)
Hid with Christ (Colossians 3:3)
Instructed in the way of the Lord (Acts 18:25)
Justified by His grace (Titus 3:7)
Kept by the power of God (1 Peter 1:5)
Led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14)
Made nigh by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14)
Nourished in the words of faith (1 Timothy 4:6)
Ordained to eternal life (Acts 13:48)
Perfected forever (Hebrews 10:14)
Quickened together with Christ (Ephesians 2:5)
Redeemed from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13)
Sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise (Ephesians 1:13)
Translated into the kingdom of His dear Son (Colossians 1:13)
Unreproveable in His sight (Colossians 1:22)
Victorious through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57)
Washed from our sins in his own blood (Revelation 1:5)
Yearned over by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26) 
Zealous of good works (Titus 2:14)

THE BELIEVER'S RICHES IN CHRIST FROM A TO Z
Accepted in the beloved (Ephesians 1:6)
Born of God (1 John 5:1)
Crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20)
Delivered from the power of darkness (Colossians 1:13)
Enriched in everything in Him (1 Corinthians 1:5)
Forgiven for Christ's sake (Ephesians 4:32)
Grounded in love (Ephesians 3:17)
Hid with Christ (Colossians 3:3)
Instructed in the way of the Lord (Acts 18:25)
Justified by His grace (Titus 3:7)
Kept by the power of God (1 Peter 1:5)
Led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14)
Made nigh by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14)
Nourished in the words of faith (1 Timothy 4:6)
Ordained to eternal life (Acts 13:48)
Perfected forever (Hebrews 10:14)
Quickened together with Christ (Ephesians 2:5)
Redeemed from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13)
Sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise (Ephesians 1:13)
Translated into the kingdom of His dear Son (Colossians 1:13)
Unreproveable in His sight (Colossians 1:22)
Victorious through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57)
Washed from our sins in his own blood (Revelation 1:5)
Yearned over by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26) 
Zealous of good works (Titus 2:14)

The vast number of Callvinists that I know do not hold the same view as Larkin.
Here is on example along with the link.
 http://www.reformedspokane.org/Doctrine_pages/The second coming of Christ/Matthew_24_DJE/End_Times_SB1.html
Volume  69 - Issue 9
Editorial
The Kingdom Has Come (1)
By David J Engelsma
The need of the hour – this last hour – is that the Reformed church give clear, bold, public expression to her distinctive faith concerning the last things.

There is heated controversy in evangelical, conservative circles today over eschatology. Eschatology is the biblical doctrine of the second coming of Christ and the happenings that precede, accompany, and follow this coming. It is the fascinating answer of Jesus to the question of the disciples in Matthew 24:3, “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”

Those who profess to be Bible-believing Christians differ radically over future history as controlled by the coming of Christ. Calvinists are deeply involved in the debate.

But the controversy rages between “premillennialists” (premills) and “postmillennialists” (postmills). The former teach the rapture of the believing church into the air at any moment. This is followed by a period of’ seven years in which Antichrist comes to power and persecutes the Jews. At the end of the seven years, Christ returns personally and visibly to establish an earthly kingdom of peace and prosperity in all the world for a thousand years (“millennium”). He reigns from Jerusalem in Palestine where the nation of Israel has again become the kingdom-people of God as it was under the old covenant. Only after this thousand-year reign of Christ does earthly history end and the eternal state begin.

The Calvinist participants in the current debate over eschatology are postmills. They proclaim such a victory of the gospel and law of God in the future as shall result in the Christianizing of the whole world. A majority of the worlds population will be converted to Christ. At the very least, great numbers will believe in Christ. Christians will hold the reins of earthly power in all nations. The church should look forward to a long period of earthly peace and prosperity before Christ returns to perfect this temporal dominion in the eternal kingdom. Some say that this long period is literally one thousand years (a “millennium”). Others prophesy hundreds of thousands of years of Christian earthly dominion.

Virtually missing from the public debate is the classic, creedal Reformed doctrine of the last things. It is high time that the Reformed faith let its voice be heard.

This is all the more necessary in view of strange, dangerous developments that threaten to affect the life and behavior of Reformed saints. Doctrine never remains safely confined to speeches and books. It always takes form in the practice of those who embrace the doctrine. False doctrine creates foolish and evil conduct. Right doctrine, orthodoxy, forms wise, godly conduct.

Recently, a widely respected and influential Bible-teacher in the United States has prophesied the return of Christ and the end of the world in September, 1994 (cf. the editorial, “A.D. 1993: The Lord is Corning,” in the Jan. 1, 1993 Standard Bearer). This cannot but have effects on the lives of those who believe the prophecy. These effects will be the same as the effects of similar prophecies in the past. Men and women abandon ordinary life to wait for the great day that is so near. When the expected coming does not occur (and it ‘will not), many become disillusioned, not only with the particular Bible-teacher, but also with the Scriptures themselves which were supposed to teach there turn of Christ on the particular date. The others, ignoring the huge blunder of their master, commit themselves to him even more slavishly, so that a new cult is formed.

Other dangerous developments are the direct results of the hope that the kingdom of Christ is destined to come to earthly power in history. Calvinistic postmills are forming alliances with Arminian, charismatic, premills to bring this kingdom to pass in the United States. They are calling other Reformed Christians to join these alliances. Such alliances are fatal to the confession and practice of the Reformed faith.

There is also the strong temptation to have recourse to civil revolution and physical violence in order to bring about the earthly kingdom of Christ. The hope of an earthly kingdom is always vulnerable to this temptation. There are ominous signs that some are yielding to this temptation. Francis A. Schaeffer advocated resistance to the state as the last resort of Christians against unlawful authority in his A Christian Manifesto. That Schaeffer does not shrink from extending this resistance to all-out war is plain from his appeal to the American Revolution in which “civil disobedience led to open war in which men and women died” (p. 130).

Operation Rescue, the movement of evangelical opposition to the state-authorized murder of the unborn, is presently engaging in civil disobedience as a tactic to overthrow the kingdom of darkness and to establish the kingdom of light. It is calling all true Christians to join in this violence in the name of Christ the King.

It is time, therefore, for the Reformed view of the coming of the Day of Christ to be aired.

This view is “amillennialism.” It holds that the millennium of Revelation 20, the one passage in Scripture that mentions a thousand-year period, is the figurative description of the New Testament era from Christ’s ascension until shortly before His return. In distinction from premillennialism, which thinks that Christ will come before a literal millennium, and from postmillennialism, which thinks that Christ will come after a literal millennium, amillennialism denies that there will be any literal millennium.

On the Reformed view, the Bible teaches that the wicked world will make steady increase in its rebellion against God (Matt. 24:12; II Tim. 3). The future of the nominal, visible church in history is that there will be a great apostasy from the truth (II Thess. 2:1-3). A coming Antichrist will unite the nations in a worldwide kingdom of the devil (II Thess. 2; Rev. 13). Then will take place a severe persecution of the true church of Jesus Christ (Matt. 24:21, 22; Rev. 13). During the reign of Antichrist, Christ will come bodily and visibly “with power and great glory” to consume Antichrist with the spirit of His mouth; to raise the dead; to conduct the final judgment; and to renew the creation as the home of His eternal kingdom (Matt. 24:30, 31; II Thess. 2; I Thess. 4:13-18; Rev. 20:11 ff.; II Pet. 3).

Reformed amillennialism observes that for all the sound and fury of the strife between the Calvinistic postmills and the Arminian, dispensational premills, there is striking, significant agreement between-these two eschatological errors.

Both agree that the believing church does not face a coming Antichrist and persecution. The premills rapture the church out of danger. The postmills put the Antichrist safely into the past. Some of them explain “Antichrist” as the Roman empire that persecuted the early church. Others make it the Roman Catholic Church at the time of the Reformation. We could say that, whereas the premills rapture the church upwards in space, the postmills rapture Anti- Christ backwards in time. In either case, the future of the church is rosy. This is appealing. It is also a mistake with serious practical implications for the people of God. They are not forewarned of the fiery trial that awaits them in the crucible of the kingdom of the beast.

Both premills and postmills agree also that there will be a literal millennium - a “golden age” in this world’s history for the church. This “golden age” will be the kingdom of Christ. What is especially objectionable in this agreement of both premills and postmills is the notion that the kingdom of Christ in this world is a carnal kingdom. It is a reign of Christ that dominates the nations politically, culturally, and economically. It is the exercise of Christ’s power by presidents, judges, executioners, national committees for the arts, and secretaries of the treasuries. It is a citizenry that consists of all mankind, for every man will both be subject to the rule of Christ and be beneficiary of it during the millennium. It is a peace and a prosperity that are purely earthly, as earthly as international freedom from war, booming national economies, and deliverance from crime and disease.

The glorious carnal kingdom of Jesus Christ!

This carnal kingdom of Christ is still future. It has still to come.

In the thinking of both the premills and the postmills, the kingdom of Christ has not yet come. The attempt of Jesus to establish the kingdom at His first coming was a failure. The premills cheerfully acknowledge this failure. Israel’s rejection of the offered kingdom by their Messiah effectively postponed the kingdom to the millennium.

The postmills pay lip-service to Christ’s realization of His kingdom already by the preaching of the gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit. But their hearts are not in it. Especially for the “reconstructionist” postmills, prominent in the current eschatological controversy, the establishment of the kingdom that really counts is the carnal kingdom of the millennium. This kingdom represents victory. The spiritual kingdom of the confessing church with which Reformed amillennialism is content is nothing but defeat.

Some kingdom! Another carnal kingdom like the kingdoms of this world.

Some King! A failure, lo these 2000 years.

Some coming of the kingdom! After 2000 years of preaching and working in the Name of the crucified and risen Christ, the kingdom still is mainly, or even exclusively, in the future of New Testament history.

Reformed amillennialism is not impressed.

We have news for the premills and postmills, as we do for every man. It is good news. The kingdom has come. The kingdom is here and now. It is here and now as fully, gloriously, and victoriously as it ever will or can be, this side of Christ’s coming and eternity.

Do the premills and the postmills not see it?

- DJE

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The Religious Affiliation of Best-Selling Protestant Christian Writer
Max Lucado
 
Max Lucado is a member and preacher in the conservative religious body known as the "Churches of Christ" (or individually as "church of Christ"). Today Max Lucado is the senior minister at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. The Oak Hills Church dates back to the early l900s, when it was known as the Grove Avenue Church of Christ. The Oak Hills Church (which now has weekly attendance of about 3,500 people) is affiliated with Stone-Campbell fellowship known as the Churches of Christ. As is typical of websites for Stone-Campbell churches which avoid use of the word "denomination", this site is circumspect about identifying its denominational affiliation, but the site's "Vision" page (http://www.oakhillschurchsa.org/About/Vision/) on which the church's theology is summarized clearly presents a summary of the Churches of Christ doctrines, beliefs and practices.

THE BELIEVER'S RICHES IN CHRIST FROM A TO Z
Accepted in the beloved (Ephesians 1:6)
Born of God (1 John 5:1)
Crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20)
Delivered from the power of darkness (Colossians 1:13)
Enriched in everything in Him (1 Corinthians 1:5)
Forgiven for Christ's sake (Ephesians 4:32)
Grounded in love (Ephesians 3:17)
Hid with Christ (Colossians 3:3)
Instructed in the way of the Lord (Acts 18:25)
Justified by His grace (Titus 3:7)
Kept by the power of God (1 Peter 1:5)
Led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14)
Made nigh by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14)
Nourished in the words of faith (1 Timothy 4:6)
Ordained to eternal life (Acts 13:48)
Perfected forever (Hebrews 10:14)
Quickened together with Christ (Ephesians 2:5)
Redeemed from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13)
Sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise (Ephesians 1:13)
Translated into the kingdom of His dear Son (Colossians 1:13)
Unreproveable in His sight (Colossians 1:22)
Victorious through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57)
Washed from our sins in his own blood (Revelation 1:5)
Yearned over by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26) 
Zealous of good works (Titus 2:14)

Brethren,
The prophetical doctrinal beliefs that Larkin teaches in the book of Revelation are correct and not heretical. The Lord Jesus is coming again with out any signs and before the start of the 7 Year Tribulation Period. Larkin was entirely correct in this doctrine.
The prophetical doctrinal beliefs of the Preterists, Calvinists, a-millennialists, post-millennialists are heretical.
Alan

I think it goes back to what I've brought up before -- discipleship.  The Reformed Theologians are much more prominent today, they are in the public forum and have made quite a name for themselves.  John MacArthur, Max Lucado, John Piper (esp. Piper since he's "Baptist") are very popular.  For a long time I didn't realize Lucado was Reformed.  I stayed away from his stuff because I saw it as largely "fluff" but a friend gave hubby a little book by him for a study the friend wanted to do and something in the bio on the back revealed his Reformed connection. 
My husband had a First Sergeant a few years back who was very vocal about being Christian and was trying to hold his recruiters to Christian standards on the job, but he was not mature at all in the Word.  He would make a statement and claim biblical support, then ask hubby to back him up and hubby would have to defer from answering, because it was very way off base scripturally and to point it out in front of the men would be bad.  We knew the church he went to, it was a good IFB church.  One day, though, he happened to park next to our car and when we were leaving I saw in his backseat a MacArthur Study Bible and was aghast. 
We attend a very good IFB church.  The people love the Lord and are extremely faithful.  We often have more people Wednesday night than Sunday morning!  The men in the church take turns speaking on Wednesday evenings.  Hubby recently started a series on the "basics."  He taught on the character of God a few months ago.  The people in the church raved about the lesson.  I don't think they have every been taught anything like that before.  Last month he touched on the Bible, will follow up on that again next month.  They loved that lesson as well.  Nothing should surprise us anymore, but I have to say that we are quite shocked that people don't seem to know these basics, that they've never been taught before.  People desperately need to be grounded in the fundamentals.  If we try to warn people about all the "bad stuff" out in the world we could never warn them about everything.  When agents are trained to spot counterfeit currency, they are made to memorize genuine bills, not become familiar with all the examples of counterfeits.  If one has the genuine article committed to memory, then a counterfeit will stick out like a sore thumb.  So, teaching the truth, grounding in the basics will help people be prepared to spot the false that is constantly being thrown at them.
And while we may ask others for their thoughts about a topic, or inquire about suggested passages for something, we use those as a springboard for our own research.  We do not simply take anyone's word for anything.  This has caused us to butt heads with a couple different pastors and continually look for new churches.  We've kind of been like vagabonds, going from church to church looking for a good fit.  It is really hard to find a good church nowadays.  Thankfully we have found one and are able to serve there.  God is truly faithful and gracious.

THE BELIEVER'S RICHES IN CHRIST FROM A TO Z
Accepted in the beloved (Ephesians 1:6)
Born of God (1 John 5:1)
Crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20)
Delivered from the power of darkness (Colossians 1:13)
Enriched in everything in Him (1 Corinthians 1:5)
Forgiven for Christ's sake (Ephesians 4:32)
Grounded in love (Ephesians 3:17)
Hid with Christ (Colossians 3:3)
Instructed in the way of the Lord (Acts 18:25)
Justified by His grace (Titus 3:7)
Kept by the power of God (1 Peter 1:5)
Led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14)
Made nigh by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14)
Nourished in the words of faith (1 Timothy 4:6)
Ordained to eternal life (Acts 13:48)
Perfected forever (Hebrews 10:14)
Quickened together with Christ (Ephesians 2:5)
Redeemed from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13)
Sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise (Ephesians 1:13)
Translated into the kingdom of His dear Son (Colossians 1:13)
Unreproveable in His sight (Colossians 1:22)
Victorious through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57)
Washed from our sins in his own blood (Revelation 1:5)
Yearned over by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26) 
Zealous of good works (Titus 2:14)

a Baptist Minister, Anthony Craig, posted this on his Facebook page...
 
THINGS GUARANTEED BY GOD AT THE INSTANT OF REGENERATION
1. My salvation is fully accomplished (John 19:30).
2. I have eternal life as a present possession (John 5:24; 6:47; 15:11-13).
3. I have Jesus Christ as my present possession (1 John 5:12).
4. I know the one, true God (John 17:3; 1 John 2:3; 5:20).
5. I have been saved by His grace (Eph. 2:1-10).
6. I have been justified by His grace (Titus 3:7).
7. I have passed from death unto life (John 5:24; 1 John 3:14).
8. I have been quickened (made alive) by God (Eph. 2:1, 5; Col. 2:13).
9. I have been made fit for heaven (Col. 1:12).
10. I have the forgiveness of sins (Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14).
11. My sins have been taken away (John 1:29; Heb. 9:26; 1 John 3:5).
12. My sins have been completely purged (Heb. 1:3).
13. My sins will never be remembered by God (Heb. 8:12; 10:17).
14. I have been washed (1 Cor. 6:11; Titus 3:5; Rev. 1:5).
15. I will walk with Christ in white (Rev. 3:4-5).
16. I have been healed by His stripes (1 Pet. 2:24).
17. I have been forgiven all trespasses (Col. 2:13; 1 John 2:12).
18. I have been fully justified (Rom. 4:5; 8:30; 1 Cor. 6:11; Gal. 2:16; Titus 3:7).
19. I am reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18-19; Col. 1:20).
20. I am made nigh by the blood of Christ (Eph. 2:13).
21. I am redeemed through His blood (1 Pet. 1:18, 19; Eph. 1:7; Col.1:14).
22. I am redeemed from the curse of the law (Gal. 3:13).
23. I am redeemed from all iniquity or lawlessness (Titus 2:14).
24. I am bought with a price (1 Cor. 6:20; 7:23).
25. I am delivered from so great a death (2 Cor. 1:10).
26. I have been delivered from this present evil world or age (Gal. 1:4).
27. I have been delivered from the power of darkness (Col. 1:13).
28. I have been delivered from the wrath to come (1 Thess. 1:10).
29. I will not come into condemnation or judgment (John 5:24; Rom. 8:1).
30. I am a child of God (John 1:12; Rom. 8:16; Gal. 3:26; 1 John 3:1, 2).
31. I am a son of God (Gal. 4:5-7).
32. I belong to Jesus Christ (Gal. 3:29; 5:24).
33. I have been adopted (Gal. 4:5; Rom. 8:15, 23).
34. I am an heir of God and joint-heir with Christ (Rom. 8:17; Titus 3:7).
35. I am an heir of the grace of life (1 Pet. 3:7).
36. All things are mine (1 Cor. 3:21-23).
37. I possess all things (2 Cor. 6:10).
38. I will inherit all things (Rev. 21:7).
39. I am enriched by Christ in everything (1 Cor. 1:5; 2 Cor. 9:11).
40. I am a fellow heir (Eph. 3:6).
41. I am rich because of Christ (2 Cor. 8:9; Rev. 2:9).
42. I am blessed with every spiritual blessing (Eph. 1:3).
43. I have obtained an inheritance (Eph. 1:11, 14; Heb. 1:14; 9:15; 1 Pet. 1:4).
44. I have been appointed to obtain salvation (1 Thess. 5:9; Heb. 1:14).
45. I am His inheritance (Eph. 1:18).
46. I am a partaker of His promise in Christ by the gospel (Eph. 3:6).
47. I am a new creature (creation) in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 2:10; 4:24; Col. 3:10).
48. I have been renewed by the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5).
49. I am accepted and highly favored in the Beloved One (Eph. 1:6; cf. Matt. 3:17).
50. I have been seated in heavenly places with Christ (Eph. 2:6).
51. I am to the praise of His glory (Eph. 1:6, 12).
52. I am light in the Lord (Eph. 5:8).
53. I am a child of light (Eph. 5:8; 1 Thess. 5:5).
54. I am a "peculiar person," even God's special, purchased possession (Titus 2:14; 1 Pet. 2:9).
55. I am a priest who can offer spiritual sacrifices (Heb. 13:15-16; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9; Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:6).
56. I am a king who will reign (Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:6).
57. I am privileged to have fellowship with the Father and with the Son (1 John 1:3).
58. I dwell in Christ (John 6:56; 1 John 3:24; 4:13, 15, 16).
59. Christ dwells in me (John 6:56; Gal. 2:20; 1 John 3:24; 4:12-16).
60. I am in Christ (John 14:20; 2 Cor. 5:17).
61. Christ is in me (John 14:20; Col. 1:27; Rom. 8:10; 1 John 4:4).
62. The Spirit of God dwells in me (Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 3:16; Eph. 2:21-22).
63. I am not in the flesh but in the Spirit (Rom. 8:9).
64. My "earthen vessel" houses a great Treasure (2 Cor. 4:7).
65. My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19).
66. I am blest with the gift/pledge of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor.1:22; Gal. 4:6; Eph. 1:13-14; 1 Thess. 4:8; Titus 3:6; 1 John 3:24; 4:13).
67. I have an anointing (unction) from the Holy One (1 John 2:20, 27).
68. I am one of the "called" of Jesus Christ (Rom. 1:6; 8:28-30; Jude 1; Rev. 17:14).
69. I have been called unto the fellowship of God's Son (1 Cor. 1:9).
70. I have been called unto eternal glory (1 Pet. 5:10).
71. I have been called with a holy calling (2 Tim. 1:9).
72. I am a partaker of the high, heavenly calling (Phil. 3:14; Heb. 3:1).
73. I have been called out of darkness into His marvellous light (1 Pet. 2:9).
74. God foreknew me (Rom. 8:29; 1 Pet. 1:2).
75. God predestined me to be conformed to Christ's image (Rom. 8:29; Eph. 1:5, 11).
76. I have already been glorified according to God's mind and purpose (Rom. 8:30).
77. I am eternally secure in God's love (Rom. 8:38-39).
78. I am chosen in Christ (Eph. 1:4; Col. 3:12; 1 Thess. 1:4; 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 17:14).
79. I have been chosen to salvation (2 Thess. 2:13).
80. I am complete in Christ (Col. 2:10).
81. I am beloved of God (Col. 3:12; 2 Thess. 2:13).
82. I am chastened and disciplined by my Heavenly Father (Heb. 12:6-7).
83. I am part of that group that Christ is not ashamed to call His "brethren" and "friends" (Heb. 2:11; John 15:14, 15).
84. I am a child of Abraham (Gal. 3:7).
85. I am Abraham's seed (Gal. 3:29).
86. I enjoy the blessing of Abraham (Gal. 3:9).
87. I am a child of promise (Gal. 4:28, 31).
88. I am faithful (Rev. 17:14).
89. I am a sheep in His flock (Luke 12:32; Heb. 13:20; 1 Pet. 2:25).
90. I am a member of His body (1 Cor. 10:17; 12:27; Eph. 3:6; 4:25; 5:30).
91. I am a stone in His building (Eph. 2:20-22; Heb. 3:6; 1 Pet. 2:5).
92. I am a branch in the Vine (John 15:1-7).
93. I am a child of the kingdom (Matt. 13:38; compare Mark 10:14-15).
94. I am born again into His family (John 1:12-13; James 1:18; 1 Pet. 1:3, 23; 2:2; 1 John 5:1).
95. I am one of God's people because He graciously claims me as His own (1 Pet. 2:10; Rev. 21:7).
96. I am a fellow citizen with the saints (Eph. 2:19).
97. I was baptized into Jesus Christ (Rom. 6:3; Gal. 3:27).
98. I was identified with Christ in His death (Rom. 6:3-6, 8-11; 2 Cor. 5:14; Col. 2:12, 20; 3:3).
99. I was identified with Christ in His resurrection (Rom. 6:5, 8, 11; 2 Cor. 5:15; Gal. 2:20; Col. 2:12; 3:1).
100. I died to sin (Rom. 6:2).
101. My "old man" was crucified with Christ (Rom. 6:6).
102. I have been crucified with Christ (Gal. 2:20).
103. I have crucified the flesh with its affections and lusts (Gal. 5:24).
104. I am alive unto God (Rom. 6:11, 13; Gal. 2:19, 20).
105. Christ is my life (Phil. 1:21; Col. 3:4).
106. I can walk in newness of life (Rom. 6:4).
107. I can serve in newness of spirit (Rom. 7:6).
108. I can live unto righteousness (1 Pet. 2:24).
109. I died to the law (Rom. 7:4; Gal. 2:19).
110. I am delivered from the law (Rom. 7:6).
111. I am not under the law but under grace (Rom. 6:14).
112. I have God's laws written in my heart (Heb. 10:16).
113. I am married to Jesus Christ (Rom. 7:4).
114. I am a partaker of Christ (Heb. 3:14).
115. I am identified with Christ in His suffering (2 Tim. 2:12; Phil. 
129; 1 Pet. 2:20; 4:12-13; 1 Thess. 3:3; Rom. 8:18; Col. 1:24).
116. The knowledge of God is made known by me (2 Cor. 2:14).
117. The savor (aroma) of Christ is made known by me (2 Cor. 2:15-16).
118. I am an epistle of Christ (2 Cor. 3:3).
119. I am being changed into Christ's glorious image (2 Cor. 3:18).
120. I am being perfected (Phil. 1:6).
121. My inward man is being renewed day by day (2 Cor. 4:16).
122. I have put on Christ (Gal. 3:27).
123. I am not of the world (John 17:14, 16).
124. The world is crucified unto me (Gal. 6:14).
125. I am crucified unto the world (Gal. 6:14).
126. I am separated unto the gospel of God (Rom. 1:1).
127. I am set apart and sanctified in Christ Jesus (1 Cor. 1:2; 6:11; Heb. 10:10; Jude 1).
128. I am holy (Col. 3:12; Heb. 3:1; 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 20:6).
129. I am clothed in His righteousness (Rev. 19:8).
130. I am a saint (1 Cor. 1:2; Phil. 1:1; Col. 1:2; Rom. 1:7).
131. I am faultless in Christ (Eph. 5:27; Col. 1:22; Jude 24).
132. I am perfected forever (Heb. 10:14).
133. I am not my own (1 Cor. 6:19).
134. I am called unto holiness (1 Thess. 4:7).
135. I am a citizen of heaven (Phil. 3:20).
136. I am a stranger and pilgrim who is not at home in this world (Heb. 11:13; 1 Pet. 2:11).
137. I have been translated into the kingdom of the Son of His love (Col. 1:13).
138. I am circumcised in my heart (Col. 2:11; Phil 3:3; compare Deut. 10:16).
139. My faithful God will sanctify me wholly (1 Thess. 5:23-24).
140. My faithful God will keep me from evil (2 Thess. 3:3; 2 Tim. 4:18).
141. Christ has made me free, free indeed (John 8:32-36; Gal. 5:1; 1 Cor. 7:22).
142. Jesus Christ is my Deliverer (Rom. 7:24-25).
143. I am free from sin (Rom. 6:7, 18, 22).
144. The law of the Spirit of Life has made me free from the law of sin and death (Rom. 8:2).
145. I am God's servant or slave (Rom. 6:22).
146. I am Christ's servant or slave (1 Cor. 7:22).
147. I am a servant or slave of righteousness (Rom. 6:18).
148. I have been called unto liberty (Gal. 5:13).
149. I have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16).
150. I have a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7).
151. Christ has given me an understanding (1 John 5:20).
152. I have the righteousness of Christ (2 Cor. 5:21).
153. I have all sufficiency in all things (2 Cor. 9:8).
154. I have all things that pertain to life and godliness (2 Pet. 1:3).
155. I can ever be content for I have Christ (Heb. 13:5).
156. I have all the armour and weapons I need (2 Cor. 10:4; Eph. 6:10-17).
157. I have God's all-sufficient grace (2 Cor. 12:9).
158. I have grace to help in time of need (Heb. 4:16).
159. I have God's power (Eph. 1:19; 3:20).
160. I have access to the Father (Eph. 2:18; Heb. 4:16).
161. I have a great High Priest (Heb. 2:17-18; 3:1; 4:14-16; 8:1; 10:21).
162. I have an unfailing Intercessor (Heb. 7:25; 9:24; Rom. 8:34).
163. I have a righteous Advocate with the Father for times when I sin (1 John 2:1).
164. I have peace with God (Rom. 5:1).
165. Christ is my peace (Eph. 2:14).
166. I have rest for my soul (Matt. 11:28-29; Heb. 4:9).
167. I am led by the Spirit of God (Rom. 8:14).
168. I am enabled during trials and temptations (1 Cor. 10:13).
169. I am given assurance by the Spirit (Rom. 8:16; Heb. 6:18).
170. I am given comfort by God (2 Cor. 1:3-7).
171. I am tranquilized by His peace (Phil. 4:7).
172. I am freely given truth and knowledge by the Spirit (1 Cor. 2:12).
173. I am not distressed (2 Cor. 4:8).
174. I am not in despair (2 Cor. 4:8).
175. I am not forsaken (2 Cor. 4:9).
176. I am not in darkness (1 Thess. 5:4).
177. God is my Sufficiency (2 Cor. 3:5).
178. God is my Strength (2 Cor. 12:9-10; Phil. 4:13).
179. God is my Helper (Heb. 13:6).
180. I belong to a Sovereign God who works all things together for my good (Rom. 8:28).
181. All things are for my sake (2 Cor. 4:15).
182. My God is for me (Rom. 8:31).
183. My every need is supplied (Phil. 4:19).
184. I am a laborer together with Christ (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor. 6:1).
185. I am His workmanship (Eph. 2:10).
186. God works in me (Phil. 2:13; Heb. 13:21).
187. God's Word works in me (1 Thess. 2:13).
188. I am sealed by God (2 Cor. 1:22; Eph. 1:13).
189. I am on the Rock, Christ Jesus (Matt. 16:18; 1 Cor. 3:11).
190. I am established securely in Christ (2 Cor. 1:21; 2 Thess. 3:3).
191. I am kept by the power of God (1 Pet. 1:5).
192. I am preserved in Jesus Christ (Jude 1).
193. I am kept from falling (Jude 24).
194. I have a building of God eternal in the heavens (2 Cor. 5:1).
195. My name is forever written in heaven (Luke 10:20).
196. I am more than a conqueror, even a super conqueror (Rom. 8:37).
197. I have victory through Christ (1 Cor. 15:57).
198. I have overcome the world (1 John 5:4-5).
199. I always triumph in Christ (2 Cor. 2:14).
200. I am indwelt by the victorious Christ who is greater than Satan (1John 4:4).
201. Satan cannot touch me (1 John 5:18).
202. I have a living hope (1 Pet. 1:3).
203. I have a glorious future (Rom. 8:18; 2 Thess. 2:14).
204. I have been given eternal encouragement and good hope through grace (2 Thess. 2:16).
205. I will be preserved unto His heavenly kingdom (2 Tim. 4:18).
206. I am receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved (Heb. 12:28).
207. I have a place reserved in heaven for me (John 14:2, 3; 1 Pet. 1:4).
208. I will eat of the tree of life (Rev. 2:7).
209. I will not be hurt of the second death (Rev. 2:11; 20:6).
210. I will have a new name (Rev. 2:17; 3:12).
211. I will have power over the nations (Rev. 2:26; 5:10).
212. I will not have my name blotted out of the book of life (Rev. 3:5).
213. I will be a pillar in God's temple (Rev. 3:12).
214. I will sit with Christ in His throne (Rev. 3:21).
215. I will be with my God forever (Rev. 21:3-4).
  

You are correct. The prophetic heresies of the Reformers, Roman Catholic Church, Reformed Baptists, are now creeping into the ranks of the independent, Fundamental Baptists.
Alan 

I started reading my copy of "Rightly Dividing" today and was very disappointed to see him teaching the gap theory.  *sigh*  it is so hard to find someone who is solid on every issue.
Thanks for the info.  I found Dispensational Truth on amazon.com at a good price....

trapperhoney....check out Dr. Renald E. Showers' book "There Really Is A Difference: A Comparison of Covenant and Dispensational Theology"  Copyright ©1990 by The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc., Bellmawr, NJ 08099  Tenth printing 2006.
That's the best book I've read on Dispensationalism.  I refer to it quite often.
I believe it's available on Amazon, The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc. (www.foi.org) and Jewish Awareness Ministries (www.jewishawareness.org).
 

trapperhoney....check out Dr. Renald E. Showers' book "There Really Is A Difference: A Comparison of Covenant and Dispensational Theology"  Copyright ©1990 by The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc., Bellmawr, NJ 08099  Tenth printing 2006.
That's the best book I've read on Dispensationalism.  I refer to it quite often.
I believe it's available on Amazon, The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc. (www.foi.org) and Jewish Awareness Ministries (www.jewishawareness.org).
 

trapperhoney....check out Dr. Renald E. Showers' book "There Really Is A Difference: A Comparison of Covenant and Dispensational Theology"  Copyright ©1990 by The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc., Bellmawr, NJ 08099  Tenth printing 2006.
That's the best book I've read on Dispensationalism.  I refer to it quite often.
I believe it's available on Amazon, The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, Inc. (www.foi.org) and Jewish Awareness Ministries (www.jewishawareness.org).
 

GP, please note the following from the OP...
 

Exactly NN....the tribulation period is called the time of Jacob's (Israel's) trouble (Jeremiah 30:7).  It is also called Daniel's 70th week. (Daniel 9:24-27)....all dealing with Israel...as is the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24-25; Mark 13; Luke 17 & 21)
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Exactly NN....the tribulation period is called the time of Jacob's (Israel's) trouble (Jeremiah 30:7).  It is also called Daniel's 70th week. (Daniel 9:24-27)....all dealing with Israel...as is the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24-25; Mark 13; Luke 17 & 21)
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Exactly NN....the tribulation period is called the time of Jacob's (Israel's) trouble (Jeremiah 30:7).  It is also called Daniel's 70th week. (Daniel 9:24-27)....all dealing with Israel...as is the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24-25; Mark 13; Luke 17 & 21)
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Don't know if this will help, but to me, it makes it clear that God is using the Tribulation Period (aka Jacob's trouble) as a way to bring his chosen people back to him.
Zechariah 12:9-14
9   And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10   And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11   In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12   And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13   The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
14   All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

Here, "all the families (of the Jews) that remain" will see Jesus Christ return to save them from their enemies.

Zechariah 13:6-9
6   And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
7   Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
8   And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
9   And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

Only 1/3 of the Jewish population will survive the Tribulation Period and live to see the return of their King and be saved.

Romans 11:26-27
26   And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27   For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

ALL Israel shall be saved. When? When the Deliverer (Jesus Christ) returns.  Only 1/3 of all the Jews in the world will make it to the end of the Tribulation Period, but they constitute the "all of Israel" that shall be saved.

Matthew 24:30 
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

When we speak of the Jews requiring a sign, to me, this is the ULTIMATE SIGN! When those Jews who have endured (remained alive) to the end see Jesus Christ...when they see the wounds that he suffered...and see him in his glory, they will realize that Jesus Christ truly was and is their promised Savior, Messiah, Christ, Deliverer, King, and Lord.  I can't imagine the shame and mourning they will go through when this happens...to realize how foolish they and their ancestors had been to reject Jesus Christ before.  Yet, he still loves them, and he returned to save them from utter destruction at the hands of the antichrist and the world.  When they see Jesus, they will accept him as their Savior and King.  They endured (lived) to the end, and they will be saved!