Victorious eschatology
- DJ Yeomans
- Dec 22, 2023
- 4 min read
Updated: Dec 27, 2023
In the late 1930's, my family arrived from England to Kamloops, B.C., Canada, to start a new life. My Great Granny Lovett arrived with her father's Holy Bible. For his faithful service in ministry as a teacher, preacher, and the superintendent for Anglican Church of England, my Great-Great-Grandfather Alex Robinson was given this Holy Bible on August 1, 1901, which I am honoured to have today.
In 1948, my family helped to establish the first Pentecostal church in our region, Calvary Temple. My Grandfather and Grandmother Betty and Bill Fedurok, bought Phil Gaglardi his first suit and helped feed the family as they had arrived from Mission BC, to Kamloops BC To establish the first Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada Church in Kamloops.
Our theology on eschatology at this time was on the rapture, great tribulation, and the Antichrist with a dispensationalist perspective during my Pentecost church upbringing. I received two Bibles from my Grandfather and Grandmother Betty and Bill Fedurok.
The Amplified Bible and The Dake's Annotated Reference Bible, written in 1963.
The Dake's bible states ten purposes for the rapture:
1. To receive saints to himself as promised
2. To resurrect the dead in Christ from among the wicked
3. To take saints to Heaven to live in the New Jerusalem and receive rewards
4. To change the bodies of saints to immortality
5. To present saints before God
6. To make saints whole in body, soul, and spirit
7. To receive the fruit of the early and latter rain
8. To cause the saints to escape the tribulation
9. To remove the hinderer of lawlessness
10. To permit the revelation of the Antichrist. (Dake, 1963, p. 227)
When I started my training with Wagner Leadership Training in 2005, I started my journey into many paradigm shifts regarding the effect or changes on my previous thoughts on the end times. This course on Victorious Eschatology with Harold R. Eberle and his book has continued my journey down this path where Jesus Christ and His Church reign over this world, not Satan. The Victorious View of Eschatology is a Theological partial preterist view, looking at Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation being part past and part future. (Eberle, 2017, pp. 2,3)
Victorious eschatology will positively impact the Church and the Kingdom of God on many levels. Victorious eschatology is progressive moving forward, looking at God's word Old and New Testaments alive with all the blessings, prophecies, hope, and growth fulfilling all that is written. He shares Christianity is the biggest tree on earth, over 7 billion believers, and 1 out of 3 globally are Christian worldwide. There is one million saved every week, and for every baby born on this earth, there are four being saved right now worldwide. Christianity is the largest entity, fastest-growing worldwide, with more Muslims being saved right now than ever in history. (Harold Eberle Video: Victorious Eschatology – 1)
Victorious eschatology is the progressive perspective that God and humankind are working together, establishing God's Kingdom of influence in all spheres of society. As we, God's people, accept our responsibility, mature, rise-up into the call that God has placed on our lives, our pre-destined inheritance of fruitfulness in our spheres of influence will come together into alignment and, even the demons will have to bow and be displaced. (Victorious Eschatology-2)
The progressive perspective is changing our view of God; we are cooperating with God, God is confidently working out His plan on earth, and allowing His people to work with Him to fulfill His plan. We focus on Kingdom, Kingdom Gospel, God the Father, that sins are forgiven, and the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. We are covenant people, joined together with God, through Jesus Christ, and that our relationship has been restored by Jesus being the second Adam, our saviour, our redeemer. We have been born anew; our hearts changed, and our spirit has been baptized and infilled with the Holy Spirit, "God's Spirit." We are reconciled and saved by the life of Jesus, not the death; the cross, death, ascension, and seated in Heaven all established for Kingdom, not just salvation. As God's covenant people, we are alive because Jesus is alive. We have authority because Jesus has authority. Jesus conquered Satan, and through the Holy Spirit's power, He and His Name are above every name in the Heavens', on the earth, and under the earth; we to co-labor with God to establish His Kingdom here as it is in Heaven. (Victorious Eschatology-3)
Mr. Harold Eberle going through the revelation of "Salvation Gospel" verses "Kingdom Gospel;" and "Dispensation" verses "Progressive" perspectives will help us have a greater understanding of where God's people's are and where we are starting as we bring them forward into Kingdom Apostolic Mandate establishing the Apostolic Center in our region.
Author Dr. Jonni Yeomans
History of St Andrew on the Square
The Old Calvary Temple
"St. Andrew’s on the Square is significant as a community facility and focal point that has served the changing social and religious needs of Kamloops residents for well over a century.
Built in 1887, the church is valued as the City’s oldest public building. In response to the growth of the city and the expansion of the original local Presbyterian congregation, the church was built on land donated by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) at a location that was then on the outskirts of town. Construction funds were raised largely by CPR employees, many of whom were of Scottish descent. The church served a Presbyterian congregation until 1925, when unification resulted in the formation of the United Church of Canada. In 1942, it was purchased by the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada and renamed Calvary Temple. During the late 1950s and 1960s, this site housed the largest Sunday School in Canada. Over the years, the church was also used by various groups for meetings, as a badminton hall and as a gymnasium.
This historic place is also valued for its association with the Reverend Phil Gaglardi (1913-1995), one-time provincial Minister of Highways famed for the expansion of B.C.’s road and ferry systems, who led the church during a period that included a restoration in 1945 and the construction of a large addition to the south in 1958."
Reference from Canada's Historic Places Site
Blog References
F.J.Dake. (1963). Dake's annotated reference bible. Dake Bible Sales, Inc. Lawrenceville, Georgia. P. 227
H. Eberle, M. Trench (2017). Victorious Eschatology, A partial preterist view. Worldcast Publishing. Yakima, WA.
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