David Chilton (2) (1951–1997)

All laws from the Bible, everything in it is true. No room for progressive revelation. So he has to accept slavery, as its in the bible. And cope with all the other OT laws, (but anything ceremonial is dropped). He is clearly hotly opposed to anything related to socialism, he advocates real money, not paper, and almost says that all taxation is theft, he does allow 10% maximum.
The book is really a tirade against Sider's old book "Rich Christians". It does say some things which probably need saying but never are said, like "If you will not work then you should not eat!" Trying imposing that on society.
A shocking insight to how some people really do think in the US of A.… (more)

For those of you that read my review of Alan Bondar’s book (http://www.dubiousdisciple.com/2011/02/book-review-reading-bible-through-new.html) and yearned for more, here’s a book you absolutely must read. Chilton (1951-1997) is no stranger to preterist scholarship and first-century eschatology. I suspect this book sits on the shelf of every preterist researcher. And it should.

It’s not a quick read; over 700 pages. A comprehensive exposition, going verse by verse through Revelation, showing its relevance to first-century happenings. It is Chilton who quipped, “Not once did [John] imply that his book was written with the twentieth century in mind, and that Christians would be wasting their time attempting to decipher it until the Scofield Reference Bible would become a best-selling novel.”

Some of the analysis goes a bit deep; one of Chilton’s most important contributions is a long, convincing explanation of how rabbinic numerology would have recognized the number 666 already as the mark of both a king and a kingdom in the Dragon’s image. They also identified, from Daniel, the Roman Empire as the fourth and final kingdom before the end times. Then, lo and behold, along comes a Roman emperor (Nero Caesar) matching this very number!

Do you really want to understand why first-century Christians were so completely convinced of Christ’s impending return? Then this book is a must-read.… (more)