The Final Word: A Biblical Response to the Case for Tongues & Prophecy Today (Robertson)

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Robertson, O. Palmer

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150

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Final Word is a call for freshness, spontaneity and life in worship has been resounding through the churches of the English-speaking world, together with a desire to hear God speaking here and now to his people. Many have called for a return to the pattern of worship found in 1 Corinthians 14, merging the biblical emphasis of the Reformation with the vitality of the modern Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.

Dr O. Palmer Robertson, pastor and Seminary teacher, currently Director of African Bible College, Uganda, argues from Scripture that preoccupation with tongues and prophecy shows a failure to grasp the fullness of New Testament privileges. The Christ of the Scriptures is the Final Word. All the church will ever need is to be found in him.

Table of Contents:

	Chapter One: Prophecy Today?
1	The Origin of Prophecy According to the Old Testament	1
2	Foundational Passages on Prophecy in the Old Testament	5
3	Prophecy About Prophecy in the Old Testament	11
4	The Testimony of Peter and Paul Concerning Prophecy	14
5	Conclusion	19
	Chapter Two: Tongues Today?	23
1	New Testament Tongues Were Revelational	23
2	Tongues Were Foreign Languages	33
3	New Testament Tongues Were For Public Consumption, Not Private Use	37
4	New Testament Tongues Were a Sign	41
5	Conclusion	50
	Chapter Three: Revelation Today?	52
1	What it Means that Revelation has Ceased	54
	a. God’s Revelation in Nature and Providence has not Ended	54
	b. God has not Ceased Communicating Through the Scriptures	55
	c. There are no Further Inspired, Authoritative Communications Apart From Those in the Bible	56
2	The History of the Cessation of Revelation	60
	a. The ‘Do not add’ Declarations	61
	b. The ‘End’ in Relation to the ‘Means’ of Special Revelation	67
	c. Evidence of the Decline of the Revelational Gifts in the New Testament Era	70
3	Objections to the Concept of the Cessation of Revelation	78
	a. Scriptural Objections	78
	b. Theological Objections	81
	c. Practical Objections	84
	Chapter Four: Current Advocacy of the Continuation of Revelation	85
1	This Viewpoint Asserts that Revelation Continues Today	87
2	This Viewpoint Hangs on an Exegetical String	95
	a. Arguments for an Inferior Kind of Prophecy Based on the Teaching about Prophecy in 1 Corinthians	98
	b. The Evidence of the Rest of the New Testament	106
3	This Viewpoint Brings a Venerable Institution with an Impeccable History into a State of Disrepute	119
4	This Viewpoint Introduces A Factor of Uncertainty into Worship	123
5	This Viewpoint Has the Potential of Bringing into Question Other Prophetic Revelations From God	123
	Chapter Five: Conclusion	127

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O. Palmer Robertson (B.D., Westminster Theological Seminary; Th.M., Th.D., Union Theological Seminary, Virginia) is director and principal of African Bible College, Uganda. He previously taught at Reformed, Westminster, Covenant, and Knox Theological Seminaries, has served as pastor of four congregations, and has also lectured in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.