Leon J. Wood – författare

This introductory biblical survey of last events is a complete and compact reference volume to the future events of the world and an excellent introduction to the study of eschatology for school, church, or personal use.Leon Wood has paid close attention of the organized structuring of the content, presenting the key concepts and establishing the importance of prophetic study, as well as a detailed and chronological list of eschatological events, and a complete definition of terminology.In the remaining chapters, the author considers each of the major eschatological events of the Bible separately, including:The RaptureThe Great TribulationThe AntichristIsrael in the TribulationThe Close of the TribulationThe MillenniumThe Bible and Future Events is an enhanced study with a thorough, up-to-date bibliography and informative footnotes.

Classic survey of Israel's history, for anyone looking to understand the nation's ancient past from a biblical perspective.Since its first publication in 1970, A Survey of Israel's History has established itself as a popular and useful text in Bible colleges and seminaries.This revision by David O’Brien, which brings A Survey of Israel’s History up to date, is certain to add to its value to anyone’s personal library.Features Include:NEW: an essential chapter on the Intertestamental Period.Numerous full-color line-maps, charts, and diagrams help to clarity details.An extensive chronological chart provides an overall summary of names and dates. Authoritative, thoroughly biblical, factually sound, and movingly human—A Survey of Israel’s History will prove enormously helpful to the student of the Bible and to anyone in search of a definitive history of the chosen people.

This introductory biblical survey of last events is a complete and compact reference volume to the future events of the world and an excellent introduction to the study of eschatology for school, church, or personal use.

Leon Wood has paid close attention of the organized structuring of the content, presenting the key concepts and establishing the importance of prophetic study, as well as a detailed and chronological list of eschatological events, and a complete definition of terminology.

In the remaining chapters, the author considers each of the major eschatological events of the Bible separately, including:

The RaptureThe Great TribulationThe AntichristIsrael in the TribulationThe Close of the TribulationThe Millennium

The Bible and Future Events is an enhanced study with a thorough, up-to-date bibliography and informative footnotes.

The Prophets of Israel has established itself as a reliable introduction to prophecy and prophets in Israel. Students will now be able to acquire this useful textbook in a more affordable paperback edition. According to Leon Wood, a continuity exists between Israel's earlier nonwriting prophets and its later prophets. Both must be studied to acquire a thorough understanding of Israelite prophecy. This assertion, for which the author of this study marshals considerable evidence, underlies the entire text of this significant volume. Instead of concentration upon the prophetic writings, the author focuses on the prophets themselves, both those who recorded their messages and those who did not. "A study of the [prophets] themselves is most worthwhile," he writes, "for when one sees them as people, in the day and circumstances in which they lived, he has a distinct advantage for understanding what they wrote." The book begins with an informative introduction to the Israelite prophets represented in the canon; the author then discusses the nonwriting prophets of both the premonarchy era (including Miriam, Deborah, and Samuel) and the monarchy period (including Gad, Nathan, Ahijah, Iddo, Shemaiah, Azariah, Hanani, Jehu, Jahaziel, Eliezer, Elijah, Micaiah, Zechariah, and Elisha)."

The book consists of two parts: the first considers questions of a general nature. They concern matters of identification, the rationale for the period and the way it is reported, the potential which the period held for blessing, the nature of the world of the day, the character of the nations which brought oppression, the marked blessings of the time when Joshua lived, and the variety and seriousness of sin that arose. The second part probes particular matters which concern the distinct episodes that transpired. Discussion centers on the leading people of the day, who were mainly judges, with special attention given to the story involved, and also lessons from it to challenge and instruct for the Christian life.

There are more than veiled references to the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. The Spirit is seen as the creator, the renewer of the life of humanity in redemption, as the Person through whom the prophets of the Lord were inspired and through whom men and women received the gifts of wisdom for leadership, administration, and craftsmanship. Dr. Wood concludes his study by showing that the concepts of regeneration, indwelling, sealing, filling, and empowering by the Spirit were already in action in the Old Testament. He presents a comparative study of the words for "e;spirit"e; in both testaments and shows how the Old Testament revelation serves as a background and a basis for a fuller understanding of the complete work of the spirit in present New Testament age of fulfillment.