Wednesday – February 21st – Wesley’s Millennial views -part2 -----
The Daily Walk Bible inspirational thought for today:
MOST PEOPLE DON’T MIND OBSTACLES, AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GET IN THEIR WAY.*
Good Tuesday to you! Our Women-On-Wednesday Bible study will begin their spring semester on March 6th. Their new study focus will be Max Lucado’s book “You Were Made For This Moment”. This class meets weekly in room #215 from 9:30am – 11:30am. Pre-registration is not necessary, just show up with a heart for learning, laughter, and prayer. For more information contact the SunRise office or email info@sunrisefamily.org.
Today we dive into part two of John Wesley’s approach to millennial views. As mentioned yesterday, Wesley didn’t fall into any of the millennial camps of his day (1703-1791), but he still had plenty insight into how we should approach Revelation and millennialism. Wesley’s interpretation of the book of Revelation followed the notes in the commentary of Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687-1752), the Gnomon Novi Testamenti. Wesley once wrote “"It is scarce possible for any that either love or fear God not to feel their hearts extremely affected in seriously reading either the beginning or the latter part of the Revelation. These, it is evident, we cannot consider too much; but the intermediate parts I did not study at all for many years; as utterly despairing of understanding them, after the fruitless attempts of so many wise and good men: and perhaps I should have lived and died in this sentiment, had I not seen the works of the great Bengel”.
Adam Clarke, a noted Wesleyan theologian summed up both his and his mentor’s thought on the whole of Revelation: “"My readers will naturally expect that I should either give a decided preference to some one of the opinions stated above, or produce one of my own; I can do neither, nor can I pretend to explain the book: I do not understand it; and in the things which concern so sublime and awful a subject, I dare not, as my predecessors, indulge in conjectures. I have read elaborate works on the subject, and each seemed right till another was examined. I am satisfied that no certain mode of interpreting the prophecies of this book has yet been found out, and I will not add another monument to the littleness or folly of the human mind by endeavoring to strike out a new course. I repeat it, I do not understand the book; and I am satisfied that not one who has written on the subject knows anything more of it than myself." All I can say is AMEN!
Blessings
Pastor Jim
Thursday – February 22nd – Revelation: Past, Present or Future
*The Daily Walk Bible NLT: Explore God's Path to Life (p. 690). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition.
The Daily Walk Bible inspirational thought for today:
MOST PEOPLE DON’T MIND OBSTACLES, AS LONG AS THEY DON’T GET IN THEIR WAY.*
Good Tuesday to you! Our Women-On-Wednesday Bible study will begin their spring semester on March 6th. Their new study focus will be Max Lucado’s book “You Were Made For This Moment”. This class meets weekly in room #215 from 9:30am – 11:30am. Pre-registration is not necessary, just show up with a heart for learning, laughter, and prayer. For more information contact the SunRise office or email info@sunrisefamily.org.
Today we dive into part two of John Wesley’s approach to millennial views. As mentioned yesterday, Wesley didn’t fall into any of the millennial camps of his day (1703-1791), but he still had plenty insight into how we should approach Revelation and millennialism. Wesley’s interpretation of the book of Revelation followed the notes in the commentary of Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687-1752), the Gnomon Novi Testamenti. Wesley once wrote “"It is scarce possible for any that either love or fear God not to feel their hearts extremely affected in seriously reading either the beginning or the latter part of the Revelation. These, it is evident, we cannot consider too much; but the intermediate parts I did not study at all for many years; as utterly despairing of understanding them, after the fruitless attempts of so many wise and good men: and perhaps I should have lived and died in this sentiment, had I not seen the works of the great Bengel”.
Adam Clarke, a noted Wesleyan theologian summed up both his and his mentor’s thought on the whole of Revelation: “"My readers will naturally expect that I should either give a decided preference to some one of the opinions stated above, or produce one of my own; I can do neither, nor can I pretend to explain the book: I do not understand it; and in the things which concern so sublime and awful a subject, I dare not, as my predecessors, indulge in conjectures. I have read elaborate works on the subject, and each seemed right till another was examined. I am satisfied that no certain mode of interpreting the prophecies of this book has yet been found out, and I will not add another monument to the littleness or folly of the human mind by endeavoring to strike out a new course. I repeat it, I do not understand the book; and I am satisfied that not one who has written on the subject knows anything more of it than myself." All I can say is AMEN!
Blessings
Pastor Jim
Thursday – February 22nd – Revelation: Past, Present or Future
*The Daily Walk Bible NLT: Explore God's Path to Life (p. 690). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition.
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