cavalier973
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Not concerning, necessarily. I don't charge him with false teaching, at all; but failure sometimes in being consistent.Anything, in particular, that you find exasperating about Andy Woods? I am beginning to listen to him and I would love to know what you find 'concerning' about his teachings. I love listening to him although I do tend to find myself dozing off to his voice. He's a natural sleeping tablet which is fantastic.
The primary example I am thinking of is his sermon/lecture series on Revelation. He states early in the series that when you see a number recorded, then you take the number literally. When the letter to the church at Smyrna mentions that they will have tribulation for ten days, then it means ten days, not ten years or the reigns of ten Caesars, or the like. When it says that the Kingdom lasts for a thousand years, then it means a literal thousand years--it isn't a symbolic number meaning a very long time.
That's sound, and I agree. But, when he talks about the sealing of the 144,000, and notes that the Tribe of Dan isn't mentioned, he says that it isn't because Dan isn't sealed along with the others, but because John wants to keep it neat and clean with twelve tribes, because that is the idiom throughout the Bible--the "Twelve Tribes of Israel".
Which means that either the 144,000 number isnt literal--it is actually 156,000 Jews that are sealed; or, the "12,000 from each tribe" isnt literal, and there are less than 12,000 from each tribe sealed, with a portion of each tribe mentioned being actually members from the Tribe of Dan.