The American Vision

The American Vision is going international...

American Vision’s International Impact - The American Vision 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....

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.

Answering Anti-Preterist Heresies (Part One) - The American Vision 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...

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.

All Governments are Theocratic - The American Vision 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...

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).

In a Little, Little While - The American Vision 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...

Most futurists use Acts 1:11 to show that Jesus will return in His physical body because that would be necessary in order to fulfill “just in the same way” He went away. The problem is that this Greek phrase is translated differently in other parts of the NT.

Episode 93: Will Jesus Return in "Just the Same Way"? - The American Vision Please help us meet a $15K matching challenge here Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 93 Gary takes a closer look at Acts 1:11, which is often pointed to as proof that Jesus will return exactly as He left during the Ascension. At His trial, Jesus told Caiaphas the high priest and the Sanhed...

Katy Tur opened the discussion with the MS NOW panel by speculating on whether Speaker Johnson was “putting God over” the Declaration and, by extension, over our government. The simple answer is “yes.”

Prime-Time Historical Ignorance - The American Vision Please help us meet a $15K matching challenge here Katy Tur and an MS NOW panel show that ignorance of our nation’s history is rampant. We’re coming up on July 4th, celebrating the Declaration of Independence in its 250th year. Apparently, some people have never read the Declaration of Independe...

The rejection of the sovereign God of the Bible leads to a downward spiral that begins with perverse thinking and degenerates into corrupt action. What was originally designed to be straight, man has made crooked by suppressing the truth in unrighteousness (Deut. 32:5; Psalm 125:5; Prov. 2:15; 3:32; 14:2; 17:20; 21:8; Phil. 2:15).

From High School to College to Atlanta - The American Vision Please help us meet a $15K matching challenge here Gary discusses the providential history of his life after high school and college. The War of the Worlds depicts a clash between very alien societies—one planetary world hell-bent on destroying another. The fictionalized Martian attack was relentl...

Dispensationalists always have a prophetic ace up their sleeves; it’s called “double fulfillment.” But there’s always someone with a “triple fulfillment” card. Dealing off the bottom of the deck is also popular.

Prophetic Dealing off the Bottom of the Deck - The American Vision Please help us meet a $15K matching challenge here Imagine yourself hearing or reading the New Testament gospels and letters for the first time as they circulated throughout the Roman Empire. Would anyone in those days have constructed the prophetic wild child that passes for biblical eschatology to...

A belief in the inevitability of certain prophetic events, the belief that we are the terminal generation, can lead to a spirit of malaise, indifference, and despair.

So You're a Preterist, Now What? (Part Two) - The American Vision Please help us meet a $15K matching challenge here In the conclusion of this conference talk, Gary discusses the worldview implications of eschatology and why they’re so important. The ungodly are involved in a game of self-deception, so that even they are “being deceived” when they think thei...

Episode 91 of Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope is now posted with video.

Episode 91 (with video): The Esther Connection to Gog and Magog Gary interviews Bob Cruickshank, Jr. and Daniel Harden about Ezekiel 38-39 and how the book of Esther connects to it. Most Bible commentators make Esther sta...