Arno C. Gaebelein was a leading fundamental, dispensational Bible teacher in the early half of the twentieth century. He served as one of the associate editors of the Scofield Reference Bible and left us thousands of pages of material in his writings. The theological content of these many writings emphasized three things: inspiration of the Bible, the centrality of Christ at a personal level, and eschatological issues...
The primary thought expressed by imminency is that something important is likely to happen, and could do so without delay. While it may not be immediate nor necessarily soon, it is next on the program and may take place at any time. If the event is evil or potentially dangerous we would call it impending for it is threatening to occur. But if it is an event full of hope and joyful expectation we express it by the noun imminence or the adjective imminent...
Dr. John F. Walvoord in an article on Revelation 20:1-6 made this bold statement: "Few verses in the Bible are more crucial to the interpretation of the Bible as a whole than the opening verses in Revelation 20." Even if this statement overstates the matter, this passage is very important to understand in the scheme of biblical prophecy. Yet, many people have dismissed the book of Revelation as too difficult to understand and chapter 20 as too controversial to know what it means. Therefore, they have missed some important revelation which God has given us for our blessed hope as well as blessing to our spiritual lives (Revelation 1:3)...
Kenneth L Gentry, Jr., makes evidence derived from exegetical data of the Apocalypse his major focus in building a case for dating Revelation prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Even though acknowledging that other advocates of either a Neronic and Domitianic date for Revelation's composition find no direct evidence within the book for assigning a date, he proceeds to find "inherently suggestive and positively compelling historical time-frame indicators in Revelation."
Since the 1970s evangelicalism and evangelical hermeneutics have undergone radical changes, changes that have not happened without affecting interpretation of the Bible’s prophetic teachings. I have elaborated on the changes in Evangelical Hermeneutics: The New Versus the Old. Here we can only offer a sample of some of the changes...