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Millennium Madness

by Timothy Gordon
Intermountain Institute for Religion, Science, and Culture, © 2024,
$14.99 (paperback), 241 pages, ISBN-13: 9798335766531

Dr. Tim Gordon holds a doctorate in Christian apologetics and Christian education and is the Academic Director for the Biblical Studies Center in Boise, Idaho. This book deals with eschatology — an area of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the soul's final destiny. There has been a terrible lack of teaching on eschatology in the church today. Meanwhile, a denominational error by many churches has led to political involvement and misdirected use of finances for theme parks and alliances with modern Israel, wasting money and contradicting the teachings of Jesus Christ.

This 15-lesson book is designed for self-study or Bible class teaching on eschatology. Each lesson deals with a different topic: millennialism, dispensational premillennialism, historic millennialism, postmillennialism, amillennialism, eschatology, prophecy, apocalyptic terms and issues, Christian Zionism, the rapture and Antichrist, the great tribulation and battle of Armageddon, the kingdom of God and reign of Christ, Revelation 20:1-3, the binding of Satan, and Revelation 20:4-6.

As you read this list, you may recognize some terminology denominational teachers use. Gordon's method of dealing with this subject is to give critical scriptures on each one, list the points we need to consider, and then have 10 questions for discussion that leave a space for the student to write notes on that question. Each subject has a crossword puzzle and a word search puzzle.

This is a study that every Bible student should be involved in and that congregations of New Testament Christians need to include in their teaching programs. We highly recommend this study book.

Scripture links/references are from BibleGateway.com. Unhighlighted scriptures can be looked up at their website.