The First Left Behind Novel
Hi everyone, I am gradually making a series of videos about ancient texts to help with the study of early Christianity. The latest video is called The First Left Behind Novel: Hippolytus on Christ and Anti-Christ.
This video provides a short introduction to Hippolytus' treatise On Christ and Anti-Christ, an early third-century work that tries to explain from the Christian Scriptures who the Anti-Christ was, how he would arise, and what he would do.
In this 12-minute video, I explain who was Hippolytus, the basic plot of Christ and Anti-Christ, and what we learn about the early church from this text.
Well, perhaps it was even earlier: 1 Enoch!
This is outstanding!! For years I was an ardent pretribulational dispensational premillennialist. I am no longer but hung on your every word. How exciting to come to understand the roots of this theology. Your critique raised issues that I personally had with this system. To perhaps oversimplify, I have always parroted the slogan, we are looking for Christ not the Antichrist in opposition to what seemed to be an obsession with identifying the Antichrist. I struggle with the identification from the "seventy weeks" prophecy in Daniel of a seven-year tribulation period at the end of the present age. How solid is that argument, and why does it say 1260 days in Revelation. Can we say with certainty that it is seven years? I can't! I particularly appreciated your pointing out the "hatred" toward certain nations or groups of people. I am well versed in this position but have a myriad of questions about it. Today I feel much more comfortable with the already not yet view of the kingdom and covenantal pre-millennialism. Love your reflections in your book, "Evangelical Theology" on the subject and look forward to the next video.