So you always want to take something in the sense in which it is intended. When it is never used in Scripture in a woodenly literal sense. People end up, in fact, ironically of the most symbolic of all the books of the Bible taking thousand in a woodenly literal sense. We don’ t want to take that thousand in a wooden-literal sense. May the Lord increase you a thousand times and bless you as He has promised. If the Lord your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as many as the stars in the sky. Do we say then, ” Oh my goodness, I didn’ t know that God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, but the thousand and first hill, I guess He doesn’ t own those cattle.” So who owns them? Well, we know what that means. Or it says in Scripture God owns the cattle on a thousand hills. Now the question is does God only show love to a thousand generations or does He extend it to a thousand and one generations? What does a thousand mean? It means that He extends His love forever. God says that He is a jealous God punishing the children for the sins of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands. We’ re not to take that in a wooden-literal sense, but we are to take that in the sense in which it is intended. Thousand is used but not in a literal sense, when God shows His loving-kindness to thousands of generations. For example, if you look at the Decalogue. I don’ t know of any, or at least many places where that word thousand is used in a literal sense. For example, the word ” thousand” is used throughout the Bible. If the Bible is using a metaphor or a figure of speech, do you want to take that in a wooden-literal sense? I think not.
On a recent Bible Answer Man radio broadcast, a caller asked Hanegraaff: ” How do you know when to spiritualize things in the Bible and when to take them literally.” Hanegraaff’ s reply was as follows:
In the past Hanegraaff would not publicly state his views on eschatology but now is aggressively propagating them as the true biblical teaching. The Last Disciple is being billed as a preterist counterpart to the Left Behind novel series of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. ” Hank is a partial preterist who holds to a view on eschatology that is similar to the position held by Gary DeMar,” according to DeMar’ s American Vision website. It appears that Hanegraaff has adopted the preterist position in this first novel in a series that sees the book of Revelation as having been fulfilled in the first century. Hank Hanegraaff of Bible Answer Man fame has recently delved into the field of eschatology (the study of last things) with the release of a novel calledThe Last Disciple, co-authored with Sigmund Broward.
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