by Zack Hunt
2 Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 98.
3 Origen, De Principiis, in vol. 4 of The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885), 373.
4 See Saint Augustine of Hippo, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, trans. and anno. John Hammond Taylor, Ancient Christian Writers 41 (New York: Newman Press, 1982).
5 Saint Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, trans. J. F. Shaw, in vol. 2 of A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, ed. Philip Schaff (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1887), 533.
6 Origen, De Principiis, 364.
Chapter 8
1 John J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998), 256.
2 Pablo Richard, Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation, 2nd ed. (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995), 34.
3 Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 117.
4 Richard, Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary, 30.
5 Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2001), 36.
6 Ibid.
7 Shelia M. Poole, “Why Evangelicals Still Line up behind Trump after Child Separations,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 21, 2018, www.ajc.com/lifestyles/religion/why-evangelicals-still-line-behind-trump-afterchild-separations/RAcnilDoh1OCDU7LbT9TrL/.
8 Rossing, The Rapture Exposed, 127.
9 Richard, Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary, 86.
10 Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination, 264.
Chapter 9
1 “Tony Campolo,” YouTube video, 9:09, from The Hour, posted by “Strombo,” April 2, 2007, www.youtube.com/watch?v=m584z5aE4Uc.
2 See, for example, Richard B. Hays, The Faith of Jesus Christ: The Narrative Substructure of Galatians 3:1–4:11 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002).
3 Theodore Stylianopoulos, “I Know Your Works,” Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity, ed. Robert J. Daly (Ada, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2009), 18–19.
4 Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 4.
5 Martin Luther King, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” (address), Bishop Charles Mason Temple, April 3, 1968, Memphis, TN, transcript and MP3 audio, 43:11, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/ive-been-mountaintop-address-delivered-bishop-charlesmason-temple.
Chapter 10
1 Since writing this in the summer of 2018, Jack and Rexella have once again revamped their set to resemble the more polished look it had previously. Jack himself also appears to be in better health.
2 “Jack Van Impe Ministries International,” Charity Navigator, last modified February 1, 2018, www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3913.
3 Adelle M. Banks, “‘Chrislam’ Comments Force Christian Broadcaster Off-Air,” Huffington Post, August 20, 2011, www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/van-impe-rick-warrenrobert-schuller_n_880741.
4 “Jack Van Impe Presents—June 9, 2018,” YouTube video, 45:32, Jack Van Impe Ministries, June 8, 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aez_u7AtHYE.
5 Ibid.
6 Pablo Richard, Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1998), 26.
The Author
Zack Hunt is a popular blogger, writer, and ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. His writing on faith and politics has appeared in Huffington Post, Relevant Magazine, Patheos, and Youth Worker Journal. He has also made cameo appearances in places like The Boston Globe and New York Magazine. After spending nearly a decade in youth ministry, Zack attended Yale Divinity School, where he graduated with a master’s degree in Christian history. He and his wife and two daughters live in Tennessee where he spends his free time trying to smoke the perfect rack of ribs on his beloved Weber grill.
