David Campbell on How To Read Revelation

Revelation is a book that leaves most Christians confused. Many times people think it's impossible to understand as if it's something that can only be done by "super-spiritual" Christians. In this conversation, David Campbell explains why we shouldn't feel that way. Revelation is a book given to us by God that every Christian needs to wrestle with and understand. He critiques some of the most common approaches Christians take to reading the Book of Revelation and offers a better framework in its place that will lead to a greater sense of clarity of the proper meaning and application of the book.

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[tymaclaughlin]

This blew my mind. I’m loving these interviews

[zulu]

I am surrounded by dispensationalists, what are questions I can ask them to challenge them ?

[williamshaw]

I will finish listening to this video because I'm very interested in hearing what others think about the scriptures. There is almost always something to gain from their thoughts. However this is the poorest description of Dispensational thought I have ever heard in my 45 years of studying the scriptures and the various theological frameworks and hermeneutic approaches that my brethren use in their efforts to understand them. This is so far off the mark that David Campbell is either very poorly informed or disingenuous. No dispensationalist would say that the Church is plan B, that God "was shocked" by the crucifixion and that "Jesus failed to do what God sent him to do." This claim by Campbell is nothing short of vile. Shame on him for his dishonesty. Unless I am wrong and he merely severely misunderstands dispensational thought. Both the death of Christ for our redemption and the establishment of His church composed of both Jews and Gentiles in one new body, under one new covenant, was God's plan from before the foundation of the world. "Darby invented it as a total novelty." Far from true. Elements of dispensational thought hearken back to very early in the church. In the 18th century a Jesuit priest, Manuel de Lacunza, published escatalogical views much like Darby but almost a century before him. Darby may have popularized a modern dispensational hermeneutic but it did not originate with him, not even in it's modern understanding.
Please do not accept any of his description of the Dispensational hemeneutic as representing the system of thought. Dispensationalist thinking recognizes that God keeps his promises and will fulfil his firm, unbreakable, commitment to the nation of Israel (which is what Darby and many others saw in scripture; it was not an "obsession with the political restoration of the state of Israel"}. That and a approach to interpretation is the bedrock of the system of thought. It is a very God honoring, Christ exalting and biblically sound set of beliefs about God's plan for the future. I am critical of aspects of the system and especially particular ideas of particular people in the system, as with any system; but it is nothing like what Campbell describes in this very uncharitable mischaracterization.