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Last Days Madness: Obsession of the Modern Church
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Average Rating:  out of 31 Reviews
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: American Vision
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780915815357
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gary Demar
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Publisher: American Vision
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 236
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Publication Date: 1999-09
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Reading Level: 455
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Description: Gary DeMar sheds light on the most difficult and studied prophetic passages, including Daniel 7:13-14; 9:24-27; Matt. 16:27-28; 24-25; Thess. 2; 2 Peter 3:3-13, and many more. DeMar identifies the Beast, the Antichrist, and the Man of Lawlessness and clears the haze regarding Armageddon, the abomination of desolation, the rebuilding of the temple, and the meaning of 666. This is the most thoroughly documented and comprehensive study of Bible prophecy ever written! LDM will be your survival guide and spiritual compass to insure you escape the paralysis of last days madness.
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Review Summary: Very helpful in understanding the basis for both partial preterism and pretrib premil |
Date: 2008-12-16 |
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Details: For those who grew up thinking pretrib, premil was the only end times interpretation out there, this book is an eye opener and a great way to start a study on eschatology. It is written for the layman and clearly explains what Scripture the pretrib, premil interpretation is based on and also presents the hermeneutical problems associated with it. It also provides some pointed critique of people like Tim LaHaye and Hal Lindsey who continue to rehash their cries of "The sky is falling!" every ten or twenty years. The book is not very kind in its treatment of these fellas, but DeMar does a good job of justifying his complaints. In conjunction with its critique of the pretrib, premil view, the book presents an easy to understand defense of the partial preterist view. Although DeMar is postmil, the partial preterist position is compatible with both the postmil and amil interpretation. Even if you don't agree with him, he presents some fascinating arguments for the partial preterist view of the prophecies of Daniel, Revelation, and the Olivet Discourse. |
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Review Summary: A great book |
Date: 2008-10-03 |
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Details: Demar's "Last Days Madness" is a great book written against mainstream dispensationalism. Demar points out problem after problem that stereotypical rapture/premillennium/doom and gloom dispensationalism has. Although Demar does give his views on eschatology this does not seem to be the main point of the book. I would recommend that you read this book to understand the many problems of dispensationalism and what eschatology is not, but you will need to read another one to find out what eschatology is. |
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Review Summary: I think I was wrong all these years |
Date: 2008-07-13 |
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Details: I have been a die-hard dispensationalist for the past 33 years. I was saved after seeing "A Thief in the Night" and reading "The Late Great Planet Earth". My first study bibles were a Ryrie and a Scofield--you get the picture. I never even HEARD of the partial preterist views until lately--and it has been a mind boggling experience for me that I have fought hard all the way. However, after reading this book, I don't think I can argue it anymore. DeMar backs up his explanations with solid exegesis--more solid than any I have had yet. I cannot argue it anymore. I admit, there is still a dispensationalist part of me that worries if I am getting sucked into a "great deception", but God's Word does not deceive--I think I have been deceived in the past by dispensationalism itself. I am not there 100%, but this book is just incredible. Read it and y ou will see, too. Everything I believed about eschatology has been debunked by Demars masterful, painstaking, biblical exegesis. |
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Review Summary: A necessary corrective |
Date: 2008-05-18 |
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Details: Gary DeMar provides provides a much needed response to today's strange end-time ideas. The escatological emperor indeed has no cloths. I do concur that the material lacks a systematic organization and the tone is at times somewhat combative. If you are looking for a systematic presentation of the preterist position then this is not the book. What this book does provide is the source of certain prophecies such as the idea that Russia is part of a future end-times prophecy of Ezekiel 38. DeMar then refutes such ideas. Prior to reading this book I didn't know where the LeHay futurists came up with these ideas. If you are interested in the preterist position, this can add value but also read the books by Gentry and Sproul. |
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Review Summary: Compelling case for partial preterism |
Date: 2007-08-31 |
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Details: If you're like most evangelicals, most of what you've been taught about Bible prophecy is wrong. If you're anything like me, you were taught dispensational eschatology as a Biblical "fact" and it never occurred to you to question it. If you've ever been bothered by any of the following:
- Why "date setters" have been wrong so many times
- The hopeless sensationalism of many Bible prophecy "experts"
- Why Jesus claims that the events described in Matthew 24 would occur during "this generation"
- Why the Book of Revelation claims to be describing things that would happen "shortly" and that the time was "near"
- Or anything else about eschatology
He shows that dispensational eschatology is neither the most straightforward reading of the Bible nor the historic position of the church. He points out that much of what is taught hangs on an exegetical thread and that dispensationalism imports a lot of ideas into the text that aren't there. For example:
- The New Testament NEVER teaches that the Temple will be rebuilt.
- There is no evidence for the Rapture. This was a doctrine that was made up in the 1830's and is the result of a pre-conceived grid being forced on the text, NOT an exposition of the Bible.
- Russia was often identified as an eschatological "bad guy" because the Bible refers to "Rosh," which "obviously" refers to "Russia." If you don't see the connection, you're not alone; the main "reason" that Rosh is supposed to refer to Russia is that they sound similar. Talk about reading ideas into the Bible.
The author exposes dispensational eschatology as a crock. He shows that most of their doctrines, such as the Rapture, the alleged gap in Daniel's 70 weeks, and the rebuilt Temple to name a few are not supported by the Bible. At the same time, he makes many compelling arguments for the partial preterist position (the idea that most of the prophecies in the Bible were already fulfilled). Among the many important concepts he addresses are:
- How to interpret Biblical time texts (which dispensationalists mostly ignore)
- The identity of the Beast, the Antichrist, and the Man of Lawlessness (which he argues aren't necessarily the same; most people try to combine them into a conglomerate figure, which Demar argues isn't really Biblical).
- Why we're not living in the end times. Also why attempting to set a date for the Second Coming or trying to guess when it will be never has worked and never will.
- What the Mark of the Beast is - in particular, is it a microchip or some other form of technology as so many people seem to believe? What is the number of the Beast?
- A very detailed exposition of Matthew 24, which is often interpreted to be referring to a future Tribulation culminating in the Second Coming.
- And many more important topics.
There were a few omissions though:
- Dating of Revelation - if partial preterist eschatology is true, then Revelation MUST have been written before A.D. 70 (rather than the later date in the 90's). I don't think that Demar covered this topic adequately though, and that's a potential Achilles heel in his argument.
- I suppose he was dealing with this throughout the book, I wish the author had dealt more explicitly with the "two-people" idea (the idea that ethnic Israel is still God's chosen people).
- Maybe have spent more time explicitly defining and explaining his hermeneutics.
Hank Hanegraaff deals with these three topics in more detail in his book "The Apocalypse Code," especially the last two topics. (Actually, the hermeneutics is the main point of the book, and he spends a lot of time dealing with the second point). Although there is a lot of overlap between these two books, I'd definitely recommend reading both books together. I think they really complement each other well and you'll get a more complete picture of eschatology if you do. If I had to pick one of the two, I'd say that Gary Demar's book is better written and more complete, but as I said, if you read both they will reinforce each other and you will get a more complete picture of eschatology. Another book that compliments this book is "Thine is the Kingdom", edited by Kenneth Gentry.
I definitely recommend this book. A lot of people try to avoid the topic of eschatology, either because they don't understand it very well, it's "too divisive", or they say "I'll find out when it happens", but the Bible talks a lot about the topic so God clearly intended us to understand it. If God spoke, it's our responsibility to find out what He said. This book will help clear the haze and bring common sense, sanity, and solid Biblical exegesis back into eschatology. |
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