{"id":722,"date":"2004-04-15T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2004\/04\/three-favorite-books-on-the-end-times\/"},"modified":"2004-04-15T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T13:22:00","slug":"three-favorite-books-on-the-end-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2004\/04\/three-favorite-books-on-the-end-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Favorite Books on the End Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/jollyblogger.typepad.com\/jollyblogger\/2004\/04\/thursday_three__1.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jollyblogger asks for our Three Favorite Books on the End Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are mine, although I will cheat a little, by starting with two by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books&amp;field-author=Hosier%2C%20John\/104-6194077-4236766\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Hosier<\/a> although they are both short they are a very good and clear explanation of what you could call an optimistic amillenial position.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/085151247X\/qid=1082034948\/sr=1-10\/ref=sr_1_10_xs_stripbooks_i10_xgl14\/104-6194077-4236766?v=glance&amp;s=books\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Puritan Hope by Iain Murray<\/a> is in my view a classic that ALL should read.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the section in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0310286700\/qid=1082035106\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1_xs_books_i1_xgl14\/104-6194077-4236766?v=glance&amp;s=books\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wayne Grudem\u2019s Systematic Theology<\/a> on eschatology is probably better than most books on the subject, and of course you get a book that covers all the other aspects of Gods word.  If you don\u2019t own one buy it already!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jollyblogger asks for our Three Favorite Books on the End Times Here are mine, although I will cheat a little, by starting with two by John Hosier although they are both short they are a very good and clear explanation of what you could call an optimistic amillenial position. 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