The American Vision

06/04/2026

If “soon” means near to the time when we hear a modern prophecy enthusiast say that Jesus’ coming is “soon,” then why didn’t “soon” mean “soon” to Revelation’s first readers?

Since John is told the events revealed to him were to take place “soon” (1:1) “for the time is near” (1:3), Revelation is about events that were to happen soon for those living in John’s day, in particular, in events leading up to and including the end of the Old Covenant represented outwa...

06/03/2026

There were very few if any atheists in early America, although there were a number of religious skeptics. But even these could not develop a moral worldview on reason alone. They continually pointed to the Bible, even if they rejected its revelational claims.

Gary responds to an article published by Baptist News written by Mara Richards Bim about the recent report released by President Trump’s Justice Department. A 1982 article in Newsweek magazine stated the following: “[F]or centuries [the Bible] has exerted an unrivaled influence on American cultu...

06/01/2026

The particulars of the text matter. An interpreter can’t move on to what a text means until he nails down what the text says.

In this conclusion of a conference talk Gary gave recently, he discusses the apologetics of preterism. Before any worthwhile discussion can take place about the Bible, the first question I always ask is, “What does the text say?” The tempter approached Eve with a question about the text: “Inde...

06/01/2026

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05/30/2026

Hoping to gain a better view of his subjects below, Leonius decided to use his horse's unique flying ability to gain the high ground. Luckily, he chose a roof that had been updated to Roman building code, not the one next door, which had been dismantled recently by a few religious zealots... (Luke 5:17-20).

05/29/2026

Hermeneutics is the art and science of interpretation. We use it every day by reading other people’s body language and tone of voice, among many other visual cues. Written words in the Bible don’t have these cues, but we still need to read them as if we were the original recipients of the NT messages and letters in the first century.

Please help us meet a $15K matching challenge here Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 94 Gary discusses the hermeneutical concept of “audience relevance.” In Matthew 24, Jesus continually uses the second-person plural (“you”) to identify His present audience: “when you see these t...

05/28/2026

The American Vision is going international...

Please help us meet a $15K matching challenge here American Vision had always wanted the name World Vision, but it had been taken by the time AV began operating in 1979. We started off as a Christian history organization with our first product, The American Vision: 360 Years Later, which traced the....

05/27/2026

Many futurists are vehemently opposed to any argument put forth by any preterist, to the point that they call it heresy, even though they must reword and redefine simple words in the New Testament. Gary gives some advice about how to approach such people.

Please help us meet a $15K matching challenge here In another conference talk Gary gave recently, he discusses the apologetics of preterism. During the Symposium, James Hamilton said if the destruction of Jerusalem was the fulfillment of the Olivet Discourse, then why didn’t the biblical writers c...

05/26/2026

Every political system, even atheistic ones, is theocratic if either the individual (Libertinism, Moral Anarchy, King, Monarch) or the group (Democracy, Oligarchy) is the basis of what’s morally right or wrong.

Please help us meet a $15K matching challenge here For decades, secularists have told us that what certain countries need is democracy. What if a country votes to make Sharia law the law of the land? Once power is secured through the democratic process, the door is often shut to exclude those who mi...

05/25/2026

The NT often uses OT language to show that similar events are soon to pass in the first century. Israel’s history often feels like a series of cyclical events and Paul even mentions that these events happened as “examples” to his generation, “on whom the end of the ages has come” (1 Corinthians 10:11).

Please help us meet a $15K matching challenge here Gary answers a listener question about a Greek word used in Matthew 25:5, Hebrews 10:37, and in the Septuagint in Habakkuk 2:3. In Revelation 1:1, John was shown “the things which must shortly take place.” Why must they “shortly take place? Be...