The Hyperlink Permission: How Dispensational Eschatology Reads the Bible & Why It Gets Wild

About this episode

The episode explores the complexities of Dispensational Eschatology and its interpretation of Antichrist theology.

We were supposed to do this one last week, but things happened and the Antichrist got bumped a week. Worth the wait. Bo spent the extra time going back to the Eerdmans Bible Dictionary he bought in 1992 when he enrolled at Canadian Bible College in Regina, Saskatchewan, because we live in a moment so unmoored from basic coherence that you have to return to first principles just to get oriented. The result was one of the better explainers we've ever done on this show. Bo walked us through the four stages of Antichrist theology: stage one, the generic concept in John's letters — an amorphous spirit of the age. Stage two, you give it the definite article and a face. Stage three, you smash every bad guy in the entire Bible together like Play-Doh remnants — Daniel's beasts, the man of lawlessness in Thessalonians, the beast from the sea in Revelation, Gog and Magog — into one Voltron-level super-villain. And stage four, which is where Peter Thiel lives, and which we are saving for next week because it requires its own episode: you take everything in stage three and invert it. The Roman Empire becomes good. Greta Thunberg becomes suspect. The Pope becomes suspect. The resistance to…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bo Sanders, Dr. Tripp Fuller

Topics covered

• Dispensational Eschatology
• Antichrist theology
• Biblical interpretation
• Theological concepts
• Cultural commentary

Keywords

• Antichrist
• Eschatology
• Theology
• Biblical interpretation
• Dispensationalism
• Cultural commentary
• Jack Van Impe
• John Hagee

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Eerdmans Bible Dictionary, Canadian Bible College

Books & works: Antichrist theology

Places: Regina, Saskatchewan

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