Citations:Church Age

English citations of Church Age

• 1945, John R. Rice, “Jesus to be King of the Jews on David's Throne”, in The Coming Kingdom of Christ‎^[1] (Religion), Wheaton, Illinois: Sword of the Lord Publishers, →OCLC, page 71:

  The Church Age, a Mystery Hid in Ages Past […]
  The mystery of this present church age coming between the first and second comings of Christ was hidden from the Old Testament prophets.

• 1957, Jesse Wilson Hodges, “A General View of Dispensationalism”, in Christ's Kingdom and Coming with an Analysis of Dispensationalism‎^[2] (Religion), Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 35:

  The New Testament Church is a parenthetical institution designed to fill the gap between the ancient kingdom of Israel and a more glorious future kingdom of the same order.¹⁰ The primary mission of the Church is not to evangelize the world, but simply to take out from among the Gentiles a limited number of people for Christs name.¹¹ When this number has been reached, the church age will come to a sudden close, and national Israel will come back into view as God’s representative and evangelistic people.¹²

• 1970, Peter S. Ruckman, “Revelation Chapter 4”, in The Book of Revelation (The Bible Believer's Commentary Series)‎^[3] (Religion), Pensacola, FL: Pensacola Bible Press, →OCLC, page 110:

  Events that occur after Revelation 4 will not be found in the Church Age. This is important because Seventh-Day Adventists, Mormons, Roman Catholics, and many others have the habit of taking passages found between Revelation 4 and Revelation 22 and making them apply to the Christians in the Church Age. Of course, this is a case of "wrongly dividing" the word of truth. You are told to "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2Tim 2:15). This is wrong division.

• 1991, Ed Hindson, “The March to Armageddon”, in End Times, the Middle East, and the New World Order‎^[4] (Religion), Victor Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:

  Most evangelicals hold to the dispensational premillennial view of eschatology which looks forward to the Rapture (“translation” or “absorption” of believers to heaven) as the next major prophetic event. This, they believe, will end the Church Age and prepare the way for the Tribulation Period and the return of Christ.

• 2000, Samuel L. Starks, “The Seven Years' Tribulation/the Second Coming of Christ”, in God's Ultimate Dream: Mystical Things of God‎^[5], 1st edition (Religion), New York: Vantage Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:

  The next big incident that will happen after the Church age and the grace period will be the seven years’ tribulation period or the end time.

• 2000, Vincent Crapanzano, Serving the Word: Literalism in America From the Pulpit to the Bench‎^[6], →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 September 2020‎^[7]:

  Unlike their antebellum predecessors, the new premillennialists were dispensationalists. They offered a systemic view of history in which biblical prophecies were thought to refer to real historical events. […] They regarded the present era—the Church age—as a sort of parentheses and insisted, contra the liberals and postmillennialists, that Christ's kingdom was wholly in the future, supernatural in origin, and discontinuous with the history of the present.

• 2002, Patricia King (Pat Coking), “Fire, Fire Alarms, and Fireman”, in Third Heaven, Angels and ... Other Stuff‎^[8] (Religion), Belleville, Ontario: Essence Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117:

  The baptism with fire, at the end of the Church age, will “burn the dross” and impurities from Christ’s Body, the Church. Through this work of grace, the glorious Church will be revealed in the earth.

• 2013 December 17, “US doomsday minister Harold Camping dead at 92”, in AP News‎^[9], archived from the original on 15 October 2023‎^[10]:

  Each weeknight, Camping would transmit his own biblical interpretations in a quivery monotone, clutching a worn Bible as he took listeners’ calls. He first predicted the world would end on Sept. 6, 1994 and when it did not, Camping said it was off because of a mathematical error. Followers later said he was referring to the end of “the church age,” a time when human beings in Christian churches could be saved.

• 2017 September 19, Mike Ellis, “It's not the end of the world this weekend”, in USA Today‎^[11], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 October 2023‎^[12]:

  Meade said in an email to the Independent Mail that it would take a book, or a supercomputer, or God, to explain his astronomical cryptography calculations but they build on the eclipse that happened in August along with certain numbers that appear in the Bible.
  He cautioned that Sept. 23 is the end of the "Church Age" and is a spiritual sign but that later events in October would escalate with Oct. 21 being "the final date."

• 2022, R. B. Thieme, Jr., “Church Age”, in Thieme's Bible Doctrine Dictionary‎^[13], First edition (Religion), Houston, TX: R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries, →ISBN, archived from the original on 14 January 2023, pages 37, 38:

  Church Age The time period beginning on the day of Pentecost A.D. 30 and ending with the Rapture (John 14—17, Acts—Jude; Rev. 2—3). Synonyms: Age of the Royal Family; Dispensation of the Church. This is the dispensation initiated by God to form Christ’s royal family on earth, to glorify the physically absent King of kings, and to prepare a generation of spiritual nobility to rule with Christ during the future Millennium (Eph. 1:5–6, 22–23; 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 2:26; 3:21; 19:16). […]
  With the Church Age ended, the time of tribulation on earth will begin.

• 2023 August 23, Daniel Hummel, 18:55 from the start, in ‘The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism’ — A Conversation with Daniel Hummel‎^[14], Albert Mohler, archived from the original on 26 August 2023:

  But I think the key is that for someone like Darby who believed in seven dispensations, which is the most common number, we currently live in the sixth dispensation, or the dispensation of grace or sometimes called the Church Age, which is a pretty unique dispensation. Among the seven dispensations, the other six are God really working through the people of Israel to redeem the world, to make right what was put wrong. But in the Church Age, He is working with the church, with the mystery of the Old Testament. And so a lot of the rules that sort of govern God's relationship with humanity during those other ages have a slightly different play in the Church Age.