Author Archives: Dr. Peter Van Kleeck, Sr.

On June 9, 1973, was the 105th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Belmont, New York in front of a crowd of 69,138 spectators. Facing a field of five horses, Secretariat won by 31 lengths, the largest margin of victory in Belmont history, and never since approached, winning the Triple Crown ofContinue reading “Secretariat and 1 John 5:7”

A recurring maneuver of evangelical apologists for the critical text is to insinuate that those who support a standard sacred text resist or reject reformation era text critical work. This of course is a feckless fallacy of the interlocular. The conspicuous difference between pre-critical and post-critical text critical work is that pre-critical text criticism workedContinue reading “Andrew Willet (1562-1621), Matthew Poole (1624-1679), and Matthew Henry (1662-1714) and the critical examination of the authorship of 2 Samuel”

Since the Enlightenment, theologically oriented Academia’s trajectory has been to degrade the Christian sacred text through radical humanization. After demonizing the Reformation definition of inspiration described as dictation, (a word used by our Reformation era forefathers that has the explanatory scope to include holy men of God and the Holy Spirit as the creative, activeContinue reading “The Killing of Immediate Inspiration”

“Now the Church must hear Christ’s voice. Christ’s sheep will hear his voice, John 10:16. They will neither hear nor follow a stranger, ver. 5. Christ’s voice is not to be heard but in the Scriptures. Therefore other doctrine must not be received of the Church than is taught and delivered in the Scriptures. ThisContinue reading “Andrew Willet, (1562-1621), on the Sufficiency of Scripture”

I was recently invited to teach my mom’s Sunday School class while visiting her in Florida. At 67 I was the “spring chicken” Sunday, but we had a marvelous time together around the things of the Lord. As class started a young man that I learned later was 20 came in and sat down withContinue reading “An Explanatory Anecdotal Story”

On February 18, 2022, I posted an article entitled “Dr. Mark Ward, Psalm 12:6-7, and the Historic Exegetical Argument for the Providential Preservation of God’s word.” Now approaching the two-year anniversary of this response to Dr. Ward’s opposition to Psalm 12:6-7 teaching the providential preservation of Scripture, I thought I would follow up on Dr.Continue reading “After Two Years Where is Dr. Mark Ward on Psalm 12:6-7?”

Andrew Willet (1562-1621) was arguably the most accomplished of the Church of England’s Hebrew exegetes, specifically of the Pentateuch, and a prolific and outspoken writer against the papacy. Except, however, for a few references to Willet as a Hebrew scholar and orthodox theologian, modern examination of Willet’s writings has been limited to his poetry, andContinue reading “Andrew Willet (1562-1621) and the Use of the Septuagint (LXX) in His Hexaplas.”

Not only is the sending of the Holy Spirit a “last days” event; the giving of the inspired Word is likewise an intricate part of the God’s design for the “last days.” By God’s design, the Holy Spirit would not guide (odhghsei, hodagasei) the Church into all truth unilaterally, John 16:13, but would direct theContinue reading “The Eschaton: Sending the Spirit and Giving the Word”

Samuel Trickett (1632-1712) , Sermons Doctrinal and Practical (1656), edited by John Edward Blakeney (London: Printed by G. Norman, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, 1863), 1. “Now the Scriptures do instruct us what to do, and what to believe. That they teach us perfectly, unto salvation, will appear. God being the author of these book, they mustContinue reading “Simple Truths of Scripture Now Doubted or Rejected by the Church”

“And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” Rev. 22:19 This post begins from the perspective of leaving theContinue reading “Underestimating the Curse of Revelation 22:19”