Inspirational Quotes by George E. Ladd

“There is no hint of coming back to the earth before the time of the new heaven and the new earth of the eternal state. Our natural bodies cannot enter the heavenly kingdom, and we may be sure that the resurrection bodies of the saints would be equally out of place if brought back to live again in this environment.”

“But now that the Messiah has come and God's revelation to mankind has been completed, written in a book and made available to the people of all nations with nothing more to be added, there is no further need for a separate people or nation to serve that purpose.”

“However, I understand the word as it is used here to mean not regeneration but the transition from physical death to life in heaven with Christ during the time between death and the resurrection (pp. 170-71).”

“In accordance with this the entire system of Judaism has been abrogated, brought to an end and abolished. And in its place the New Covenant has become the authoritative and official instrument for God's dealings with his people, the church.”

“Since the Messiah has come and has fully performed his work of atonement, this special role assigned to the Jews has been fulfilled. Hence there remains no reason whatever for reviving or re-establishing any one or more of the elements of the old system.”

“What Paul termed the "dividing wall of hostility" between Jew and Gentile has been broken down, and it is never to be raised up again. Christ performed his work equally for men of all nationalities and races.”

“I agree that the church is often spoken of in the New Testament as spiritual Israel and that the basic dispensationalist principle of an absolute distinction between Israel and the church, involving two distinct purposes of God and two distinct peoples of God, has no biblical warrant.”

“But I do not agree that what is described in chapter 20 necessarily follows chronologically what is described in chapter 19, any more than what is described in chapter 12 (the birth of the man-child) follows chronologically what is described in the last verses of chapter 11 (the judging of the dead and the giving of rewards to the saints). The reasons why I believe that Revelation 20:1 takes us back to the beginning of the New Testament era are given in my essay, pages 156-60.”

“binding of Satan described in verses 1-3. He does not tell us exactly what he thinks this binding means nor precisely what he understands by "deceive the nations no more." He does not relate the binding of Satan spoken of here to passages in the Gospels which speak of such a binding as having already begun at the time of Christ's first coming (see pp. 161-64 of my essay).”

“I have tried to show that the binding of Satan in Revelation 20:1-3 can be understood to mean that Satan cannot prevent the spread of the gospel during the present age, that he cannot gather Christ's enemies together to attack the church, and that this binding takes place during the entire era of the New Testament church (see pp.”

“The fathers of the church from the second century on have not held this view, and this therefore does not establish its validity.”

“The presentation of each of the millennial views in this book centers on the hermeneutic or principle of interpretation adopted by each writer.”

“We have argued above that Christ began his Messianic reign at his resurrection-ascension; but his present reign is invisible, unseen and unrecognized by the world, visible only to the eye of faith. The order of the Age to Come will involve a new heaven and a new earth, and will be so different from the present order that we can speak of it as beyond history”

“The main purpose of prophecy is not to answer all our questions about the future but to enable God's people to live in the present in light of the future (2 Pet. 1: 19).”

“La resurrección de Jesús no es un hecho aislado que proporcione a las personas una confianza cálida y una esperanza de una resurrección futura; es el comienzo de la misma resurrección escatológica.”

“Justification is an eschatological fact that has occurred in history. It means acquittal from the guilt of sin by a favorable decision of the Judge. This decision has already been rendered for believers on the ground of the death of Christ (Rom. 3:21-26). Because of present justification, we shall be saved from wrath on the day of judgment (Rom. 5:9).”

“The events of the eschatological consummation are not merely detached events lying in the future about which Paul speculates. They are rather redemptive events that have already begun to unfold within history. The blessings of the Age to Come no longer lie exclusively in the future; they have become objects of present experience. The death of Christ is an eschatological event. Because of Christ’s death, the justified person stands already on the age-to-come side of the eschatological judgment, acquitted of all guilt. By virtue of the death of Christ, the believer has already been delivered from this present evil age (Gal. 1:4). He or she has been transferred from the rule of darkness and now knows the life of the Kingdom of Christ (Col. 1:13). In his cross, Christ has already defeated the powers of evil that have brought chaos into the world (Col. 2:14f.).”

“In fact, Christ’s resurrection was itself the first act of the final resurrection. It is the “first fruits” of which the eschatological resurrection will be the harvest (1 Cor. 15:20). Therefore”

“In short, the earliest Christianity did not consist of a new doctrine about God nor of a new hope of immortality nor even of new theological insights about the nature of salvation. It consisted of the recital of a great event, of a mighty act of God: the raising of Christ from the dead. Any new theological emphases are the inevitable meanings of this redemptive act of God in raising the crucified Jesus from the dead.”

“It should not trouble us that the New Testament for the most part does not foresee the millennial kingdom any more than the fact that the Old Testament does not clearly predict the Church Age.”