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The following featured academic articles have been selected from peer-reviewed academic journals and posted, unaltered, in their original forms.* Though they do not necessarily represent the exact views articulated in The Fathers on the Future, they provide an opportunity for deeper research and reflection in key eschatological topics. Articles that fit in multiple categories have been duplicated. 

Christ and His Return

Kreider, Glenn R. “Jesus the Messiah as Prophet, Priest, and King.” BSac 176 (Apr–June 2019): 174–87.

Schultz, Gary L., Jr. “The Reconciliation of All Things in Christ.” BSac 167 (Oct–Dec 2010): 442–59.

Sheryl, J. Gregory. “Can the Date of Jesus’ Return Be Known?” BSac 169 (Jan–Mar 2012): 20–32.

Tanner, J. Paul. “Is Daniel’s Seventy-Weeks Prophecy Messianic? Part 1.” BSac 166 (Apr–Jun 2009): 181–200. 

Tanner, J. Paul. “Is Daniel’s Seventy-Weeks Prophecy Messianic? Part 2.” BSac 166 (Jul–Sep 2009): 319–35.

The Resurrection, Millennium, and New Creation

Blaising, Craig A. “Early Christian Millennialism and the Intermediate State.” BSac 177 (Apr–Jun 2020): 221–33. 

Collins, Brian C. “Were the Fathers Amillennial? An Evaluation of Charles Hill’s Regnum Caelorum.” BSac 177 (Apr–Jun 2020): 207–20. 

Gumerlock, Francis X. “Millennialism and the Early Church Councils: Was Chiliasm Condemned at Constantinople?” Fides et Historia 36.2 (2004): 83–95.

Kreider, Glenn R. “The Flood is as Bad as It Gets: Never Again Will God Destroy the Earth.” BSac 171 (Oct–Dec 2014): 418–39.

López, René A. “The Nature of the Resurrection Body of Jesus and Believers.” BSac 170 (Apr–June 2013): 143–53.

Svigel, Michael J. “Extreme Makeover: Heaven and Earth Edition—Will God Annihilate the World and Re-Create It Ex Nihilo?” BSac 171 (Oct–Dec 2014): 401–17. 

Svigel, Michael J. “The Phantom Heresy: Did the Council of Ephesus (431) Condemn Chiliasm?” TrinJ 24.1 NS (2003): 105–112.

Wiley, Daniel. “A Biblical and Theological Evaluation of Panmillennialism.” BSac 178 (Jul–Sep 2021): 309–31.

The Day of the Lord (Tribulation) and Antichrist

Blaising, Craig A. “The Day of the Lord: Theme and Pattern in Biblical Theology.” BSac 169 (Jan–Mar 2012): 3–19.

Blaising, Craig A. “The Day of the Lord and the Seventieth Week of Daniel.” BSac 169 (Apr–Jun 2012): 131–42.

Blaising, Craig A. “The Day of the Lord and the Rapture.” BSac 169 (Jul–Sep 2012): 259–70.

Blaising, Craig A. “The Day of the Lord Will Come: An Exposition of 2 Peter 3:1–18.” BSac 169 (Oct–Dec 2012): 387–401.

DeBruyn, Lawrence A. “Preterism and ‘This Generation.’” BSac 167 (Apr–Jun 2010): 180–200.

Guenter, Kenneth E. “‘This Generation’ in the Trilogy of Matthew 24:34–35.” BSac 175 (Apr–Jun 2018): 174–94.

Kreider, Glenn R. “The Flood is as Bad as It Gets: Never Again Will God Destroy the Earth.” BSac 171 (Oct–Dec 2014): 418–39.

Powell, Charles E. “The Identity of the 'Restrainer' in 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7.” BSac 154 (Jul–Sep 1997): 320–32.

Rieske, Susan M. “What Is the Meaning of ‘This Generation’ in Matthew 23:36?” BSac 165 (Apr–Jun 2008): 209–26.

Steinmann, Andrew E. “Is the Antichrist in Daniel 11?” BSac 162 (Apr-Jun 2005): 195–209.

Varner, William C. “The Didache ‘Apocalypse’ and Matthew 24.” BibSac 165 (Jul–Sep 2008): 309–22.

Yates, Richard Shalom. “The Identity of the Tribulation Saints.” BSac 163 (Jan–Mar 2006): 79–93.

Yates, Richard Shalom. “The Function of the Tribulation Saints.” BSac 163 (Apr–Jun 2006): 215–33.

Yates, Richard Shalom. “The Rewards of the Tribulation Saints.” BSac 163 (Jul–Sep 2006): 322–34.

Yates, Richard Shalom. “The Resurrection of the Tribulation Saints.” BSac 163 (Oct–Dec 2006): 453–66.

The Assumption of the Church (Rapture)

Blaising, Craig A. “The Day of the Lord and the Rapture.” BSac 169 (Jul–Sep 2012): 259–70.

Dean, David A. “Does 2 Thessalonians 2:1–3 Exclude the Pretribulational Rapture?” BSac 168 (Apr–Jun 2011): 196–216.

Gumerlock, Francis X. “A Rapture Citation in the Fourteenth Cenutry.” BSac 159 (Jul–Sep 2002): 349–62.

Gumerlock, Francis X. “The Rapture in an Eleventh-Century Text.” BSac 176 (Jan–Mar 2019): 81–91.

Gumerlock, Francis X. “The Rapture in the Apocalypse of Elijah.” BSac 170 (Oct–Dec 2013): 418–31. 

Pettegrew, Larry D. “The Rapture Debate at the Niagara Bible Conference.” BSac 157 (Jul–Sep 2000): 331–47.

Svigel, Michael J. “‘What Child Is This?’: Darby’s Early Exegetical Argument for the Pretribulation Rapture of the Church.” TrinJ 35.2 NS (2014): 225–251.

The Book of Revelation 

Dean, Robert L., Jr. “Chronological Issues in the Book of Revelation.” BSac 168 (Apr–Jun 2011): 217–26.

McLean, John A. “The Chronology of the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11.” BSac 168 (Oct–Dec 2011): 460–71.

Tan, Christine Joy. “Preterist Views on the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11.” BSac 171 (Jan–Mar 2014): 72–95. 

Tan, Christine Joy. “A Critique of Preterist Views of the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11.” BSac 171 (Apr–Jun 2014): 210–25.

Tan, Christine Joy. “A Critique of Idealist and Historicist Views of the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11.” BSac 171 (Jul–Sep 2014): 328–51.

Tan, Christine Joy. “A Futurist View of the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11.” BSac 171 (Oct–Dec 2014): 452–71.

The Restoration of Israel

Gianoulis, George C. “Is Sonship in Romans 8:14–17 a Link with Romans 9?” BSac 166 (Jan-Mar 2009): 70–83.

Himes, Paul A. “Israel and Her Vocation: The Fourth Stage of Romans 11.” BSac 176 (Jan–Mar 2019): 35–50.

Tanner, J. Paul. “The New Covenant and Paul’s Quotations from Hosea in Romans 9:25–26.” BSac 162 (Jan–Mar 2005): 95–110.

Turner, David L. “Matthew 21:43 and the Future of Israel.” BSac 159 (Jan–Mar 2002): 46–61.

Vanlaningham, Michael G. “An Evaluation of N. T. Wright’s View of Israel in Romans 11.” BSac 	170 (Apr–Jun 2013): 179–93.

*All articles from BSac are posted here with express written permission from the copyright holder, Bibliotheca Sacra, and are subject to the copyrights of the respective publisher and authors. 
Gumerlock, Francis X. “Millennialism and the Early Church Councils: Was Chiliasm Condemned at Constantinople?” Fides et Historia 36.2 (2004): 83–95, posted with permission by the author.  

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