FIVE
STARS
REVIEW: The End:
A Complete Overview of Bible Prophecy and the End of Days by Mark
Hitchcock
I am so grateful to have
read this book and have it on my shelf.
My church recently did an End Times Bible study and I wish I had this
book earlier, because it would have been a wonderful resource!
Author Mark Hitchcock
does a great job of organizing the book into 14 distinct parts and 39 chapters.
(The book itself is 504 pages.) He also
includes wonderful tables and graphics throughout which helps to summarize the
main points he is addressing, and at the end he offers a proposed chronology of
the End Times. It is quite impressive!
I appreciated Hitchcock’s
easily comprehendible definitions of hard to explain topics like the various
millennial and rapture views, the 144,000, Mark of the Beast, and more. His writing makes hard topics easy to grasp
and this makes the book more reader-friendly.
While Hitchcock does a
fair job noting that there are many different end times prophecy views and
theories, he is not shy about saying that he holds a futurist, premillennial viewpoint. So be prepared when reading if you do not
agree with that view.
He does, though, note
that although there are differences in the views, he believes there are three nonnegotiables
in Christian Bible prophecy—the return of Jesus Christ to the earth, the bodily
resurrection of the dead, and the final judgment of all people. So while you might disagree with his view, he
is OK with that and does a decent job at giving explanations and reasons for
each view and theory that are different from his own.
This book is well worth
the read and a great resource and tool to have on hand. I am certain I will go back to it time and
time again.
*Tyndale House
Publishers provided me with a complimentary copy of this book.
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