The American Vision

Joel Richardson challenges those who hold to an early date for the book of Revelation (i.e., before AD70) to answer his claims, even though he admits that the coin can’t actually prove a late date.

Episode 110: Does A Roman Coin Date When Revelation Was Written? - The American Vision Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 110 Gary responds to a recent video by Joel Richardson about a Roman coin that he claims “proves” that the book of Revelation was written during Domitian’s reign. Quite a bit of diversity existed in early Christianity regarding the date that John wro...

The news of our current day holds prophetic significance for many Christians “because we are to such an extent ‘strangers to the past,’ [thus] we easily read into the events and circumstances of our own day a distinctiveness and uniqueness that may not actually be there.”

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs! - The American Vision Predictions about the end times have a long history, as Francis X. Gumerlock points out in his book The Day and the Hour: Christianity’s Perennial Fascination with Predicting the End of the World. The events we see today have recurred throughout the centuries. “In 1712, William Whiston, [Isaac] ...

Interpreting any piece of literature takes skill and broad knowledge. Like with any piece of literature — and the Bible is literature — it’s necessary to know a great deal about the type of literature you are studying.

Four Views of Revelation - The American Vision Gary briefly discusses the four major interpretive approaches to the book of Revelation. Revelation uses many Old Testament symbols: eating scrolls, beasts, marks on the forehead, gold, thrones, sun, moon, stars, candlesticks, Balaam, Jezebel, dragon, Gog and Magog, S***m, Egypt, and Babylon. It’s...

Twisting Scripture is not new. In Acts 20:29-30, the Apostle Paul warned the Ephesian elders about impending dangers to their church. He uses the metaphor of “savage wolves” to describe false teachers who would infiltrate the church after his departure.

Twisting Scripture to Accommodate the ‘Spirit of the Age’ - The American Vision A documentary film called 1946 claims that the 1946 Revised Standard Version translation imported the word “homosexuality” into the Bible when the New Testament does not use the word “homosexual.” “[A] translational error caused the word homosexual to be added to the Bible 80 years ago.”...

The vast majority of futurists are premillennial and dispensational. A recurring problem with this view is that the dependent pieces of the system are simply not found in the Bible; they’re just not there.

It's Just Not There - The American Vision Gary begins a short lesson on the four views of the book of Revelation. Political tyranny and religious apostasy are not necessarily signs of impending eschatological destruction. They, too, have been with us since the Fall. The light of the gospel was nearly extinguished as the church approached th...

If we abandon these clear time statements, then these signs can be applied to any generation. As history attests, this is exactly what’s happened.

Episode 109: The One Way to Interpret "This Generation" - The American Vision Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 109 Gary responds to a critic who challenges his interpretation of “this generation” in Matthew’s gospel. In Matthew 24:33, the word “you” (plural) is used twice: “so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize [lit. know] that He is nea...

It was true then, and it's true today.

The book of Revelation considers those who traffic in “slaves and human lives” to be immoral and destined for judgment (18:13). Nowhere does the New Testament support trafficking in slaves.

Hiding the Truth is the First Step for Control - The American Vision Propagandizing, media bias, and selective fact-finding to manipulate people have a long history. It’s much more sophisticated today. Keeping people in the dark about the issues of the day is a practice used by both sides of any debate. Socialism is all the rage, and yet rarely do we find today’s...