About Craig Cordle
Craig R. Cordle is a Bible scholar and teacher living in London, Ohio with his wife Mary. He is a 1975 graduate of Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio with a BA in Accounting. He has owned and operated his bookkeeping and tax preparation business for over thirty years.
Craig has been an avid student of the Word of God and active in the teaching ministry since 1981, heading numerous Bible study groups in churches. Also, he has spent five years in the prison ministry teaching the Bible to inmates. His passion for the Word of God is evident in his teaching and in his desire to share the Bible message with his students. His passion for studying end time Bible prophecy and his desire to prepare believers for the coming of the Lord has inspired him to write on subjects concerning Bible eschatology.
Books Publish include "Are We Alone in the Universe; A Biblical Perspective," "The Rapture Timing Mystery; Weighing the Evidence," and "The Mystery of the Millennium; Weighing the Evidence." The next book soon to be published is entitled "The Days of Noah Mystery; A Paradigm for the End Times."
Prior Eschatological Beliefs
I was a former dispensationalist that believed in the pretribulation rapture that was part of a two-phase second coming of Christ, a literal thousand-year kingdom age or millennium, the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, and reinstitution of animal blood sacrifices. This is the popular view held by many today. I can give all the scriptural evidence that is used by the dispensational view because I used them many times for nearly 40 years.
How I Changed my Eschatological Belief
I felt led of the Holy Spirit to study a parallel side-by-side account of Matthew, Mark, and Luke’s version of Jesus's Olivet Discourse with an impartial mindset and allowing the scripture to form my interpretation. In connection with that, I read Josephus’s “The Wars of the Jews” that gave an eyewitness account of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
Main Scriptural Evidence that Changed my View
Two verses caused my to change my view of eschatology, 1 Corinthians 15:54 and John 5:28-29. They say Christ's Second Coming will mark of end of death forever, fulfilling Isaiah 25:8, and that there is only one resurrection of the dead. These are the foundational verses that caused me to re-evaluate my views on the end times.