The End Times in Chronological Order Quotes

“Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“Yet just as the sailors were active on the ship (though the wind, not the sailors, ultimately controlled the ship’s movement), so the human authors were active in writing as the Spirit directed.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“The church is called a “new man” in Ephesians 2:15, meaning it could not have existed in Old Testament times.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“We are told in Ephesians 1:19-20 that the church is built on the foundation of Christ’s resurrection, meaning that the church could not have existed in Old Testament times.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“The church is called a mystery that was not revealed to past generations, but was revealed for the first time in the New Testament era. This mystery involved the idea of uniting Jewish and Gentile believers in one spiritual body (see Ephesians 3:3-6,9; Colossians 1:26-27). This lends support to the idea that the church age began on the day of Pentecost. (Individual Jews may become members of the church by faith in Christ in the present age, but God still has a future purpose for Israel. This will become increasingly clear throughout this book.)”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“Every single believer in the church age is baptized into the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13), so the church age must have begun on the day of Pentecost, for this is the day when this phenomenon first occurred (Acts 2; 11:15-16).”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“The church did not exist in Old Testament times. Matthew 16:18 cites Jesus saying that He would build His church. This indicates that the church did not yet exist.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“The way one becomes a member of this universal body is to simply place faith in Christ (Acts 16:31; Ephesians 2:8-9).”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“The good news is that Israel’s hardening and casting off is only temporary. In dire threat at Armageddon, toward the end of the tribulation period, Israel will finally recognize its Messiah and turn to Him for rescue from the invading forces of the antichrist (Zechariah 12:10; see also Romans 10:13-14).”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“Of course, to attain righteousness by observing the law, people must keep the law perfectly (James 2:10), which no person is capable of doing.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“God has a divine purpose for the current age. I will demonstrate that this purpose relates both to Israel and to the church. God, through Scripture, also provides us with insights regarding the characteristics of the present age. All of this serves as a prelude to specific end-time prophecies about the rapture and the subsequent tribulation period.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“there will be a literal rapture. First Thessalonians is an epistle (letter) written by the apostle Paul, and it contains straightforward statements of fact.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“The wise interpreter allows his knowledge of genres to control how he approaches each biblical passage. In this way, he can accurately determine what the biblical author was intending to communicate to the reader.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“God moved, and the prophet mouthed these revealed truths. God revealed and man recorded His Word to humankind.1”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“Biblical inspiration may be defined as God’s superintending of the human authors so that, using their own individual personalities and even their writing styles, they composed and recorded without error His revelation to humankind in the words of the original manuscripts. In other words, the original documents of the Bible were written by men who were permitted to exercise their own personalities and literary talents but who wrote under the control and guidance of the Holy Spirit, the result being a perfect and errorless recording of the exact message God desired to give to humankind.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“inspiration literally means “God-breathed.” Because Scripture is breathed out by God—because it originates from Him—it is true.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“Because you and I are so accustomed to living in a fallen world that has been viciously marred by sin and corruption, we cannot conceive of what life might be like in a heavenly habitat that is without such sin and fallenness. From birth to death, we are confronted with imperfection on every level. But in the eternal city, we will experience nothing but perfection.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“The interpretation of a specific passage must not contradict the total teaching of Scripture on a point. Individual verses do not exist as isolated fragments, but as parts of a whole. To interpret them properly, we must understand their relationship to the whole and to each other. Scripture interprets Scripture.”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. REVELATION 1:5-6”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy

“How wonderful it would be to hear these words from Christ: “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much” (Matthew 25:21).”
― Ron Rhodes, The End Times in Chronological Order: A Complete Overview to Understanding Bible Prophecy