Canary Cry Radio

HERETIC! It’s a label we throw on anyone who declares doctrine contrary to yours. But when it comes to Biblical Eschatology, there are many ways to explain the obscure and often confusing text of places like Matthew 24, the Book of Daniel, and the Book of Revelation. On this episode, we speak to our good friend Brian Godawa, who timidly asked to be back on the show to discuss his new book, ‘Tyrant! Rise of the Beast – Chronicles of the Apocalypse, Book One’. His hesitation was due to the fact that the book supported a view of eschatology called Preterism; that is a view that most of the things described in Matthew 24 and the Book of Revelation were fulfilled back in 70 AD, with the destruction of the second Jewish Temple. The arguments that support this thesis range from good ones to the more fantastical, sometimes making the alleged accounts of Nero the Roman Emperor sound as supernatural as the Bible itself. Still, as a non-salvation issue, the interpretation of eschatological passages ought to be something