Eschatology Guy

Here's an excerpt from Eschatology Guy, Keith Mathison's contribution to the July issue of Tabletalk.

My first two books were on the subjects of dispensationalism and postmillennialism, respectively. I was thrilled, then, when asked to write my third book on the doctrine of sola Scriptura and a fourth book on the doctrine of the Lord's Supper. You see, I didn't want to become an "eschatology guy." What in the world, you ask, is an "eschatology guy"? And why wouldn't I want to be one? Is it some kind of super-villain?

In order to understand this fear I had, you have to understand a little bit about the dispensational circles I had recently left. I had become a Christian just out of high school, and the first church I attended was a small dispensationalist Baptist church. In that church, within the short space of two years, the pastor preached verse by verse through the book of Revelation. Twice. He encouraged me to read Edgar Whisenant's 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will be in 1988 as well as several Hal Lindsey books. I was under the impression that every significant event on the news was a sign that the rapture was imminent. My pastor was an "eschatology guy."

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