{"id":1131,"date":"2012-09-20T08:19:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2012-09-20T08:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:19:43","slug":"dr-kaiser-barndollar-lectures-and-the-future-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/dr-kaiser-barndollar-lectures-and-the-future-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Kaiser, Barndollar Lectures, and the Future of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week we combined the college students with the seminary students at Baptist Bible College and Seminary to have the Barndollar Lectures with Dr. Walt Kaiser, a premier evangelical Old Testament scholar.\u00a0 In spite of the fact that he was 79 years old, he connected quite well to the 18-year olds in the audience as well as the seminary students and area pastors who had come to listen to him.\u00a0 Let me comment upon my encounter with Dr. Kaiser, whom I had met previously through the Evangelical Theological Society.<\/p>\n

First, he was a humorous and down to earth fellow, in person at meals, meeting with faculty, or in the pulpit.\u00a0 He was a regular guy who did not treat others in a condescending way.\u00a0 He treated all of us graciously.\u00a0 Second, he affirmed what our seminary believes concerning hermeneutics and Israel, namely, literal interpretation of the Bible and a distinction between Israel and the Church.\u00a0 Third, as a result of these convictions, he strongly presented the future of national Israel.\u00a0 In harmony with this is the affirmation of the land promises throughout Scripture.\u00a0 The title of the lecture series, held Sept. 10-13, was “God’s Future for Israel and the Near East.”\u00a0 The first lecture was an overview of the great promises concerning Messiah including the giving of land to Israel.<\/p>\n

The second message was “God’s Promise to Regather Israel Back to Their Land” based on Jeremiah 32.\u00a0 The third\u00a0lecture was “God’s Promise to Revive the Nation and Unify It Again” based uon Ezekiel 37.\u00a0 The fourth and final message was “God’s Gift of a Revival in Egypt” based on Isaiah 19.\u00a0 In all of this, Dr. Kaiser’s “promise theology,” for which he is known, came out strongly and clearly.\u00a0 My fourth observation about Dr. Kaiser was the strong commitment he had to expository preaching.\u00a0 He modeled such exposition, solidly based in the text, while also demonstrating ability to do theological integration.\u00a0 I am thankful that our seminary guys especially were able to witness the winsome way in which expository preaching can be made interesting to a wide range of age groups in the audience.\u00a0 It will help them in their own ministries if they can strive for this skill and approach. Fifth, Dr. Kaiser showed a concern about current events relative to prophecy greater than I had expected.\u00a0 However, he was able to do so without sensationalizing prophetic texts.<\/p>\n

My final observation on Dr. Kaiser is that I believe he loved the Lord with all of his heart.\u00a0 While this was obvious in all of his messages, this shone through especially in his last message on “God’s Gift of a Revival in Egypt” (Isaiah 19).\u00a0 The greatness of God was displayed in this text as in the end times Israel, Egypt, and Assyria (Iraq) are brought together in peace.\u00a0 Kaiser’s masterful presentation highlighted the great love and appreciation we can have for such a great God.\u00a0 And that great God who can control history is our God who can invade our own lives.\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you, Dr. Kaiser, on behalf of all of our students for doing the Barndollar Lectures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week we combined the college students with the seminary students at Baptist Bible College and Seminary to have the Barndollar Lectures with Dr. Walt Kaiser, a premier evangelical Old Testament scholar.\u00a0 In spite of the fact that he was 79 years old, he connected quite well to the 18-year olds in the audience as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,30,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}