Revelation commentary from an amillennial and postmillennial perspective
Hi, I'm looking to purchase Revelation commentaries from an amillennial and postmillennial perspectives. I'm very familiar with a dispensational view and I would like to have commentaries from another perspective, I'm even open to a historical premillennial commentary.
Right now I have Revelation 4 Views from Steve Gregg, and I have The Days Of Vengeance by David Chilton. Is David Chilton an amillennial, partial preterist?
Other commentaries I've seen recommended are Peter Leithart's International Theological Commentary, G.K. Beale's NIGTC, More Than Conquerors by William Hendriksen. I read that Leithart is a partial preterist and postmillennial and G.K is partial preterist amillennial, and Hendriksen is also amillennial. Am I correct in all of this? And if anyone has read any of these, would you recommend these commentaries?
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I don't know if this fits into the premillennial/postmillennial/amillennial framework, but it's a really good commentary on Revelation that's also easy and accessible to read.
https://www.logos.com/product/156300/revelation-and-the-end-of-all-things-2nd-ed
Do you know his eschatological views? Just so happens that I own that book here on logos already.
As I said, he doesn't fit into any of the popular eschatological systems. But he gives a biblical, exegetically sound, contextual reading of Revelation which I think anyone can benefit from reading. He reads Revelation in its own 1st-century context.
Hi Nathan,
Here is a series from Dr. Kim Riddlebarger on YouTube. Sixteen vids all together.
(1) Amillennialism 101 - What Is Amillenialism? - YouTube
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I came in ready to recommend this particular work. Largely amil, it's not strictly a commentary but very useful on the whole subject of biblical eschatology:
https://www.logos.com/product/62340/biblical-eschatology
I purchased this as part of one of the $5 Wipf & Stock sales and was very pleasantly surprised. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's available for sale at the moment, but if you can wait perhaps you can pick it up sometime in the future.
ETA: I have the first edition; apparently there's a second one, but it's not in Logos either.
Kingdom Come, The Amillennial Alternative by Sam Storms
This one is in Logos (link added).
The other one isn't, but should be. Darrell Johnson is great. I took his class on Revelation at Regent College that this book is based on. I've added a request for it on Feedbear. You can vote for it here:
Chilton is a full preterist?
According to this article, he is partial preterist: https://reformedbooksonline.com/revelation-commentaries-preterism/
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So, I've seen a lot of amillennial commentaries on Revelation here, but no postmillennial ones. Are there any relevant ones? What do you think about Steve Gregg's "Revelation: Four Views: A Parallel Commentary" and Dennis E. Johnson's "Triumph of the Lamb: A Commentary on Revelation"? Are they postmillennial?
Not available on Logos yet. But Gentry has a new one out.
https://www.kennethgentry.com/the-divorce-of-israel-2-vols-2d-printing-by-gentry/
I've also found Gregg's Revelation: Four Views to be quite helpful. I like to give at least an overview of all the major approaches to Revelation, and the key interpretive decisions we have to make when deciding between them, when teaching Revelation. I find that having them laid out side-by-side the way Gregg does it is useful in helping me prepare for that.
I am a progressive dispensationalist, but Beale's commentary is a tour de force. It is a masterpiece and no one should try and study Revelation without it. He is partial preterist amil.
Eugene Peterson's Reverse Thunder is not a commentary, but is also probably a should-read, if not quite a must-read like Beale.
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I just recently read of progressive dispensationalism, so it's new to me. Is there a commentary from that perspective? Right now I'm in research mode in my eschatology
For Progressive Dispensationalism - Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock are respected for their views - while John Walvoord is usually considered a little early for the current Progressive version - his commentary was the standard "goto" for most pastors that I know who fall into that eschatological view.
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Couldn't agree more! Beale is excellent. Either his shorter commentary https://www.logos.com/product/47515/revelation-a-shorter-commentary or his longer more technical one. https://www.logos.com/product/3467/the-book-of-revelation
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