This form of covenant was called a Royal Grant Treaty in the ancient world and would occur when a king desired to award something to one of his subjects. Examples of unconditional covenants are the Abrahamic Covenant and the Davidic Covenant. It indicates something God is going to do and it is not based on man’s performance. In this case man is the recipient of what God has promised based simply on the fact that God made the promise.
A large portion of the Scriptures deal with future events because God wants us to know where we are going. It is no different with the area of theology we call eschatology. The church yet debates on the meaning of the Trinity, baptism, the deity of Christ, the sovereignty of God, the gifts of the Spirit, forms of church government, the authority of scripture and on and on. There is a wide range of interpretation concerning eschatology but as we have studied through church history and theology we have seen that all areas of theology have been, and continue at some extent, to be controversial.
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Generally when we refer to the word we use the prophecies that have been fulfilled as a basis to study the prophecies that are yet in the future in our day.įoundational understanding of the eschatology is built on the covenants that God has established in the past particularly with Abraham, the nation of Israel and David. Eschotology includes any part of scripture that speaks of events in the future from when it was written. Much more is involved in the study of eschatology than the end of the world. We commonly call it the study of end times. So eschatology is the study of last things.
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The word eschatology is from the word escatoV eschatos which means last or final.
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