Reformed theologian John Piper affirmed his belief that the second coming of Christ is coming soon and indicated that he is a premillennialist. In other words, Piper believes Jesus Christ will come on earth and reign for 1,000 years.
Piper was responding to an “Ask Pastor John” question regarding theologian George Eldon Ladd, his former professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary who died in 1982 but left behind influential teachings and analysis on Christian end times understanding.
He first affirmed that Ladd was evangelical in the sense that he believed: in the inerrancy of the Bible, in the substitutionary work of Christ on the cross, in the necessity of hearing the gospel in order to be saved, that people must be born again in order to escape hell, and in the necessity of good works as a demonstration of faith.
He then explained that Ladd’s book, The Presence of the Future, was a “path-breaking” one in how it described eschatology (regarding the end times).
“[E]schatology is not simply what happens in the future at the end of the age. But since Christ the Messiah — expected for the end of the age — has come and has…
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