The Sequence - Hardcover

by Steven R. Bates (Author)

Sometimes the best way to let one know what something is, is to let one know what it isn't. Today's typical academic book in eschatology provides the reader with a brief history of the various positions in the field followed by why certain positions should be considered the better options. This is not that book. Over the course of twelve chapters, six sequences will be presented from the three major sources in the New Testament regarding the subject, i.e., Paul's letters to the Thessalonians, the Olivet Discourse, and John's visions in Revelation. Through a careful reconciliation of those six sequences, Dr. Steven R. Bates will show that there's only one sequence of end-times, which he has labeled ""The Post-Armageddon, Premillennial Resurrection."" He asserts that had any other sequence of end-times been correct, whether pre-tribulationism, pre-wrath, mid-tribulationism, historic pre-millennialism, post-millennialism, a-millennialism, preterism, or any other sequence that one could possibly imagine, then the proponents of that postulation should be able to take the same six sequences from Scripture and reconcile them precisely with one another, sentence by sentence, and prove whatever sequence they propose. But, of course, no one will ever attempt such an endeavor because it's theoretically impossible. Scripture's six sequences only confirm one sequence, and it is the one which has been presented in The Sequence.

Author Biography

Steven R. Bates graduated from Lee University with a BA in biblical education before receiving a scholarship for the MTS at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Dr. Bates eventually transferred to the Medical University of South Carolina, where he received a Doctor of Dental Medicine. Presently, while still maintaining his dental practice, he has combined his knowledge in theology and passion for missions in his travels abroad, which have included ministry in South America, Norway, and Israel.