My son is finishing up his M.Div from Southern Seminary. He was a resident there for two years, but is finishing up his last year online. His wife is also taking online courses. I know lots and lots of people doing this — not only the wave of the future, but a current “wave.”
What about you? What do you think about this? Are classes better this way, worse, or close to an even trade (pros and cons balance).
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From Faith Pulpit, Summer 2013. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
The question of the literalness of the prophecies concerning Israel’s future is a major theological issue today. That issue is a key distinction between dispensational and Reformed/Covenant views of eschatology. In this article explores the prophecies related to Israel’s future in Zephaniah 3, and this careful interpretation provides a paradigm for interpreting other prophetic passages.
Zephaniah was a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah. He ministered after the spiritually disastrous reigns of Manasseh and Amon and during the attempted revival of godly King Josiah (640–609 B.C.). Unfortunately, Josiah’s revival was not enough to stem the tide of wickedness in the kingdom, and God allowed Judah to be captured and enslaved by the Babylonians, beginning with King Nebuchadnezzar’s first attack on Jerusalem in 605 B.C. Zephaniah probably penned his prophecy in the mid-620s. He was a contemporary of Jeremiah and Habakkuk.
