The Coming Millennial Kingdom: A Case for Premillennial Interpretation

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Summary: Good Book on Defending Premillennialism
Review: If one wants an introduction on how premillennialists interpret certain passages in the OT and NT to support their view this book is a good placed to start. Though most of the contributors are from a revised dispensationalist perspective, some are outside the mainline dispensationalist camp (e.g., Darrell Bock and David Lowery are progressive dispensationalists, and Walter Kaiser is a Promise Theologian). However, all agree that the OT and NT do support an intermediate Kingdom on earth after this age. Essays written by Elliot Johnson (introduction to hermeneutics), John Sailhamer, Walter Kaiser, S. Lewis Johnson, and Harold Hoehner are very well written (especially Hoehner's). Darrell Bock's essay was the only disappointment as he tries to combine the already/not yet framework into his argument. I'm sure Bock's essay caused a lot of opposition to his viewpoint from the other authors (probably with the exception of Kaiser and Lowery). Overall, a good book that cannot be ignored even by those who oppose premillennialism.