Do I Kings 21:27-29 and Jonah 3:4-10 Teach That There Is a Temporal Blessing for All Men in the Preaching of the Gospel?
Hoeksema critiques the 1924 Three Points of Common Grace, specifically challenging the claim that temporal blessings come to the reprobate through gospel preaching, using the examples of Ahab and Nineveh. He argues this teaching contradicts both Reformed confessions and Scripture, particularly the covenantal curses in Deuteronomy, and demonstrates that these Old Testament examples do not support the doctrine of common grace as presented.
Herman Hoeksema The First Point [of Common Grace of 1924 wrongly] teaches that in the preaching of the gospel God evinces His general love to all the ungodly, His pleasure in their life and His willingness to save them all. According to Prof. Louis Berkhof, the same point also purposes to teach that in the preaching of the gospel there is a temporal blessing for all men, also for them that are not saved. He points to the examples of Ahab, who repented and whose punishment was postponed as a...