In a comprehensive survey of the prophetic Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments, the author demonstrates that fulfillment of God's redemptive purpose for Israel, the Church, and the nations awaits the coming of Messiah and his world kingdom past and the prelude to the ultimate realization of the kingdom of God in its eternal dimension in the new heaven and earth.
Shank observes in depth the precise correlation of the Messianic thesis of Old Testament prophecy and the eschatology of the New Testament. He examines the significance of the nation of Israel, the Arab-Israel confrontation in the Middle East in the light of the total prophetic disclosure of the Bible. He explores the whole biblical panorama of end-time events and the accelerating clash of ideologies, nations, and blocs in the rush to Armageddon and judgment at the coming of Messiah.
The Waiting King * The House Left Desolate * Jerusalem, City of the Great King * Israel, the Indestructible Nation * The Times of the Gentiles * Israel's Seventy Weeks * The Conflict of the Ages * Armageddon * Thy Kingdom Come * Until the Day Dawns * Waiting for the King * Was Pentecost the Coming of the Kingdom? * The Rhetorical Mode of the Prophets * The Time Frame of the Olivet Prophecy * The Chronological Structure of the Revelation * Revelation Twenty * The Church and Premillennialism