Hank Hanegraaff

The Bible answer man?

Imagine my suprise to tune in to radio 93.9 Fm on my local dial and find Hank the answer man in discussion with a Palestinian Christian advocating "the roadmap" - two nation solution to the Middle East conflict.

Apparently Hank and his friend are translating copies of his new book into Arabic. While not wanting to contend one way or another on the wisdom of that. Here is a quote from Norman Geisler that seems illuminating related to The Apocalypse Code Hank's new book.

"Hanegraaff meekly declares of the release of his new book: 'I think it will create a major paradigm shift in our understanding of the end times that is long overdue.' He believes it will be away from dispensational futurism and toward his preterism/idealism scheme."

For an excellent critical breakdown of Hank's views and some counter arguments see below:

http://www.preteristarchive.com/CriticalArticles/2007_ice_hanegraaff.html

The conclusion from the preterist archive says it all:

"This book is not only filled with factual error throughout, but teaches that most Bible prophecy has already been fulfilled and advocates the following preterist viewpoints: Nero was the beast of Revelation (i.e., the antichrist), Christ's Olivet discourse and most of the Book of Revelation were fulfilled by events surrounding the a.d. 70 destruction of Jerusalem, and the tribulation was also fulfilled in the first century. Hanegraaff is certainly no lover of Israel since he teaches that God divorced the harlot Israel (he needs to read the end of Hosea) and took a new bride-the church, supports the pro-Palestinian claims against Israel, and even accuses Israel of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Hanegraaff embraces and argues for many viewpoints that are detrimental to sound Bible study and interpretation. Not surprisingly, I do not recommend this book, unless one is looking for an example of how not to study the Bible for all its worth. Maranatha!"

Well said, I couldn't have done better myself.