Which ones? McDowell and Lennox.
Is Jesus Coming Soon? John Lennox on Revelation and the End of History
Sean McDowell | 2 Dec. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbRBpHxWbhA
6:26 "We're looking at the Churches as lampstands."
Excellent point, Lennox! You have just refuted "remnant living in secrecy or so small that the historic traces disappeared" which was (part of) Luther's theory about the preservation of what he believed people should have believed as opposed to what Catholics actually believed.
That's exactly where God doesn't put a lampstand, under a bushel, that is!
9:22 "Because He's going to be the King"
What do you mean "going to"? He is the King. Reread Matthew 28, the whole passage 16 to 20!
11:43 Looking up chapter 1.
Ioanne, hos emarturesen ton logon tou Theou kai ten marturian Iesou Christou, hosa eiden.
Is this an identification with the author of the Gospel and "as much as he saw" (either in detail or in the summary, "not all the books of the world") is this saying that if John the Servant of Christ Jesus had been at the first Eucharist, he would have given an account?
The thesis of Jean Colson is that the hagiographer is not the Son of Zebedee, but another John, disciple of lesser degree than the 12, who was also a Cohen, and who leaves out the Eucharist, despite including other aspects of the Last Seder, because the Eucharist was when he, the host, left the guests among themselves.
In that case, by the way, in chapter 13, Judas decides the betrayal and leaves before the Eucharist.
16:18 While I don't hold to a generalised opacity of Scripture, that's not meant in Trent Session IV, even if it has been proposed by some Catholic apologists, I think you have made a case that we don't have a complete lucidity of Scripture either. Brought up in one scheme, then they meet another scheme and so on ...
17:36 I suppose that the Apocalypse contains c. 40 visions ("and I saw" / "and I was in the spirit") in a trance state induced by God or by a spiritual exercise, but certainly utilised by God. Probably induced by God too.
I also think it's a mistake of putting their contents on a single timeline.
18:30 Isaias 11, however, can be mapped to the 1st C.
The area where Levantine Christians and later also Muslims coexist with Mitsrahi Jews (of the same origins) did get its Christian unification in the 1st C.
21:14 Well, some chapters absolutely do deal with the entire history. Chapter 20 for instance.
22:00 If John was exiled on Patmos, does that tell you who John's postman to the Churches was?
(Hint, in Greek, it's easy, in ASCII it's impossible to get a gematria of 666 for him).
24:50 The word ἀποδεικνύντα ἑαυτὸν is neither translated or given in the Interlinear as "proclaiming" he is God.
It means showing himself ... technically, if I were telling something about God (preincarnate or incarnate) and I used myself as diagram, "imagine I'm God and this" (whatever) "is" (for instance the Earth or Heaven or whatever), and then I did a gesture with it to illustrate the point, that could be a fulfilment, supposing I did it in the temple of God.
Probably not that easy to get this damnation, probably there has to be some probability of it being misunderstood, but we needn't suppose it has to go as far as a direct and formal proclamation of so and so saying so and so himself is God.
25:03 Well, confer what is said about Tiberius. He doesn't proclaim that Augustus is a god, he shows it, by making a sacrifice to Augustus.
In that case, it was a god in a false pantheon and not done in the actual temple of God, but it is certainly a similar or same spirit to what the man of lawlessness will do.
26:07 The converts in Corinth were not converts from strict Paganism.
And departing thence, he entered into the house of a certain man, named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house was adjoining to the synagogue 8 And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptized
[Acts Of Apostles 18:7-8]
So, a remnant of the Jews join the then "equivalent" of Noachides (except Noachides are Antichristian in doctrine, so not equivalent, just as their friend Tovia Singer is not equivalent to Crispus).
26:23 "deification of human beings"
Romans 1. But which of these deifications was promoting homosexuality? Well, this was before Antinous, the loverboy of Hadrian, so, I suppose this was about a prior deification of a man.
In late Bronze Age Tiryns, one has found a tholos tomb, and it has no corpse, but it has an altar. Let's say, Hercules had an unhealthy interest in Hylas. And this rubbed off on his worshippers.
The Hercules cult, being from the Bronze Age and personally very relevant to Alexander the Great would also be a good reason why the statue in Daniel 2 has bronze marking the Greek period of empire.
27:36 I must admit that I was arguably wrong on Antipope Bergoglio being the False Prophet, despite BERGOGLIO adding up to 666 in ASCII. He died, for real, and neither returned as a zombie nor was raised by Henoch or Elias, to mimic the resurrection of Christ, so, he is arguably not one of the two men alive being thrown into the Lake of Fire while alive.
28:31 Howeversomuch 666 is a number appropriately symbolising man, which it can well be, or humanism, man when exaggerating humanity in separation or rebellion against God, it is the number of a man.
Arithmos gar anthropou, not arithmos gar
You cannot say Greek anthropos without article equals English man without definite article, since in English one usage thereof is man collectively, all men past, present and future, as in "man has transformed the surface of the earth" ... but in Greek this would at least warrant an article "ho anthropos metamemorphe ton prosopon tes ges" ... I would arguably even use the definite plural "hoi anthropoi metamemorphesan ton prosopon tes ges" ...
Excuse me if I got the perfect indicative of metamorpheo wrong (yes, I did, and I don't know what it really is), but you get the point. I quit the Greek studies in 1993, and despite looking at Nestle Ahland and interlinear in recent years, my Greek is still rusty.
[μετᾰμεμόρφωκε(ν) / μετᾰμεμορφώκᾱσῐ(ν), thank you wiktionary]
29:21 I wouldn't say it has gone bad — when Rome was crumbling, given "ho katekhon" was seen as the Roman Emperor, withdrawn from England, withdrawn from Gaul, replaced in 476, Constantinople seemed like backpaddelling, St. Remigius and Sts. Clothildis and Genevieve very probably thought the man of sin was around the corner.
This didn't go bad, it resulted in Francia ... in modern terms, France, N. Italy, Germanies (note the plural), non-German parts of Switzerland too, Bohemia and Moravia = Czechia, BeNeLux. With Poland and Hungary (within which Slovakia) eventually as closely associated therewith, as the Philippines or Puerto Rico with the USA.
32:55 If it's genuine prophecy, our Lord knew about this age.*
Obviously, yes. Hence, for instance, St. John can have seen Latin block letters correspond to ASCII code.
God also knew everything about any kind of stone age. Whether pre-Flood stone age populations (like Neanderthals) or the early post-Flood generalised stone age (roughly Upper Palaeolithic, ending at or slightly before Babel).
35:06 AI can't understand anything.
That's why it's evil to give it power. I've heard Ukraine has used AI modelling to gain an advantage in the war. And while AI cannot understand, it can in some sense "make prediction models" and perhaps even express them by attached robotics or a man obeying it. Much as I think Ukraine is right and Russia wrong, I don't hold to all the methods of Zelenskyy.
39:33 That advice**, without having heard it, I applied to masks and vaccines, and as vaccination certifications have been given on phone apps (typically held in the right hand), I avoid phones too.
42:07 John 21:21 is actually a reason for Jean Colson's thesis.
Of the son of Zebedee, Jesus had already prophecied that he was going to be martyred. Matthew 20:20 ff.
42:40 "when I die, I will be with the Lord"
If you die in Christ. Time to get Catholic?
44:41 Christ reigning in the future is a big theme in all of Scripture, you said.
Where do you find "future" about the reign in Matthew 28:16 to 20? That is, about it's beginning.
45:32 St. Augustine said the millennium stands for a period we cannot know the exact limits of. It began "in AD 33" (reservations about the exact year).
And if the saints in heaven are on average reigning one thousand years (like the average between St. Stephen and someone dying recently and going to Heaven, pretty close to right now), then the end may well be very near.
46:02 He told them it was not for them to know.***
But they restored the unity and interior peace of Israel in their lifetime. First Church in Jerusalem, second in Samaria.
46:57 "but it will happen"
Or from our standpoint, will have happened ...
47:04 That was not just what they had to do in the meantime, it is what brought it about very quickly.
50:18 I was in Ireland for near a week (Sunday morning to Friday afternoon) in 1986.
Where I got my first instruction book about the Rosary.
* Comment by Dr. Lennox. ** Being attentive to the Zeitgeist, since St. Paul examplified end times evils with Roman Imperial Deifications.
*** This verse was cited:
But he said to them: It is not for you to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power:
[Acts of Apostles 1:7]
It refers partially to Isaias 11, so, to the Christian Palestinians. In place since the 1st C.
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