Book Review of Hanegraaff's "The Apocalypse Code"
Kim Riddlebarger
Several of you have asked me about my take on Hank Hanegraaff's recent book, The Apocalypse Code. On the one hand, Hanegraaff does a very good job debunking the popular dispensational end-times scenarios set out by the likes of John Hagee and Tim LaHaye. Hanegraaff exposes the embarrassing problem faced by dispensationalists who claim to interpret the Bible literally, and who cannot make good on that promise. Hanegraaff also does a very good job debunking the Israel-centered hermeneutic of popular dispensational writers. Hanegraaff capably demonstrates that Jesus Christ is the true hermeneutical center of all of Scripture and that many of the things dispensationalists assign to the future and the end of the age (i.e., in the millennium), are already fulfilled in Christ!
That being said, here are what I see as the main problems with The Apocalypse Code, and which detract from its overall impact and import