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==Writings==
Gentry is the leading contemporary expositor of the first century for the date when the Apostle's Revelation content preponderantly transpired. The first century tribulation paradigm is a profoundly different eschatology than that held by most American evangelical Christians that the tribulation and rapture haven't yet occurred.
Kenneth Gentry's brilliantly illuminating works;''[[The Beast of Revelation]]'' and ''[[He Shall Have Dominion]]''; make plain the identity of the Beast and what God's true redemptive plan for humanity are. Gentry's work is especially important today for secular as well as soteriological reasons.
Evangelical voters are special target groups for politicians in U.S. elections. Their susceptibility to eschatological pessimism that the social world is scheduled for doom in immanent tribulation have made them easy prey for politicians. Gentry's work enfilade the error of much contemporary Christian eschatology serving to highlight the easy that incorrect interpretation of the Bible is possible even by sincere experts.
Gentry is perhaps best known for his book ''[[Before Jerusalem Fell]]'', which argues that the [[Book of Revelation]] was written before the [[destruction of Jerusalem]] in 70 AD. He holds that many of the dramatic events in Revelation correspond to the persecution of Christians under the [[Roman empire|Roman imperium]] as well as to the [[First Jewish-Roman War|Jewish War against Rome]] which resulted in the [[Siege of Jerusalem (70)|destruction of Jewish temple]]. This book is the published version of his doctoral dissertation in 1986 under the title "The Dating of the Book of Revelation: An Exegetical, Theological and Historical Argument for a Pre-A.D. 70 Composition."
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