Introduction

Biography

John was the son of John Gar­rett Wal­voord and Ma­ry Flipse, and hus­band of Ger­al­dine De­lor­es Lund­gren.

A theo­lo­gian and pas­tor, he was edu­cat­ed at Whea­ton Col­lege (AB, DD), Tex­as Chris­tian Uni­ver­si­ty (AM in phi­lo­so­phy), and Dall­as Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry (DTS) (ThB, ThM, and ThD in Sys­te­ma­tic Theo­lo­gy).

He was pre­si­dent of DTS for over three de­cades (1952–86).

Works

Walvoord wrote more than 30 books, main­ly on es­cha­to­lo­gy and theo­lo­gy.

• The Doc­trine of the Ho­ly Spirit, 1943, 1954, 1958
• The Re­turn of the Lord, 1955
• The Thes­sa­lo­ni­an Epis­tles, 1956
• The Rap­ture Quest­ion, 1957, 1979
• The Mil­len­ni­al King­dom, 1959
• To Live Is Christ: An Ex­po­si­tion of the Epis­tle of Paul to the Phil­ip­pi­ans, 1961, 1971
• Israel in Pro­phe­cy, 1962
• Truth for To­day, 1963
• The Church in Pro­phe­cy, 1964
• The Na­tions in Pro­phe­cy, 1967
• The Re­ve­la­tion of Je­sus Christ, 1966
• Jesus Christ Our Lord, 1969
• Daniel, the Key to Pro­phet­ic Re­ve­la­tion, 1971
• The Ho­ly Spir­it at Work To­day, 1973
• Armageddon, Oil and the Mid­dle East Cri­sis, 1973, 199
• Matthew: Thy King­dom Come, 1974
• The Bless­ed Hope and the Tri­bu­la­tion, 1976
• Israel, the Na­tions and the Church in Pro­phe­cy, 1988
• The Pro­phe­cy Know­ledge Hand­book, 1990
• Major Bible Pro­phe­cies, 1991
• The Fi­nal Dra­ma: 14 Keys to Un­der­stand­ing the Pro­phet­ic Scrip­tures, 1993, 1997
• End Times, An Ex­pla­na­tion of World Ev­ents in Bib­li­cal Pro­phe­cy, 1998
• Prophecy in the New Mil­len­ni­um: A Fresh Look at Fu­ture Ev­ents, 2001