There seems to be something innate in human beings wanting to know about the future, and Christians are no different. Thus there have been many, many books written on the prophetic passages of the Bible, and the great prophetic discourses of our Lord Jesus in Matthew and Mark, and the slightly different one in Luke, are no exception. However, Bullinger, with his distinctive and different insight, has approached these verses in a very different way. He considers Christ’s Prophetic Teaching in relation to the order of His words and works.
In the Gospels there are notes of time, and these show us that His ministry was divided into four great periods, in each of which He was occupied with a particular subject. We do not say that these are absolutely marked off, or that they do not overlap, but they are sufficiently marked so as to leave us in no doubt whatsoever that His ministry was occupied with four great subjects, and these were:
1. The Kingdom of Heaven: Its Character and Requirements;
2. Christ’s Person;
3. Christ’s Sufferings;
4. Christ’s Second Advent.
This booklet considers the prophetic teaching in relation to each one of these subjects and concludes with a section on The Testimony of the Church.
E.W. Bullinger (1837 - 1913)
was an Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and ultradispensationalist theologian. In the spring of 1867, Bullinger became clerical secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, a position he would hold till his death in 1913. Bullinger was editor of a monthly journal Things to Come subtitled A Journal of Biblical Literature, with Special Reference to Prophetic Truth. The Official Organ of Prophetic Conferences for over 20 years (1894–1915) and contributed many articles.E.W. Bullinger was noted broadly for three works: A Critical Lexicon and Concordance to the English and Greek New Testament (1877); for his ground-breaking and exhaustive work on Figures of Speech Used in the Bible (1898); and as the primary editor of The Companion Bible (published in 6 parts, beginning in 1909; the entire annotated Bible was published posthumously in 1922). These works and many others remain in print (2004).
Ethelbert William Bullinger was born on December 15 in Canterbury, England. He was a direct descendent of the great Swiss Reformer Johann Heinrich Bullinger, a covenant theologian, who succeeded Zwingli in Zurich in December of 1531.
Bullinger was educated at King's College, London. He was a recognized scholar in the field of biblical languages. The Archbishop of Canterbury granted him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1881 in recognition of his biblical scholarship.
Dr. Bullinger believed in and taught the pretribulation, premillennial rapture. He is also considered an untradispensationalist because he taught that the gospels and Acts were under the dispensation of law, with the church actually beginning at Paul's ministry after Acts 28:28.
Dr. Bullinger died on June 6, 1913, in London, England, leaving behind a legacy of works to help in the study of God's Word.
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