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BEN WITHERINGTON
Dallas Theological Seminary Producing a long string of scholars and popularizers of the system--- e.g. John Walvoord (President 1952-1986), Charles Ryrie, Hal Lindsey, Timothy LaHaye to mention a few. All of these persons, whether scholars or not, have spread the hermeneutic of this system through popular books, pamphlets etc.
prophecy is a late word from God for the present or very near horizon of events When some OT prophecy is viewed messianically in the NT, it is very rarely viewed as speaking about the remote or very distant future, and it is always correlated with events which involve Christ and/or the church, not world history in general. Instead it was believed by NT writers that the eschatological age began in their own era, and they never speak precisely about the timing of the end of that era.