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generation after generation. Would his commentaries survive to teach
others after his death?

My father explained he had chosen Moody Publishers (then known as
Moody Press) to publish his first commentary on Revelation for one very
important reason. He knew he could trust them to keep the commentary
in print as long as it was needed.

So in those last weeks of my father’s life, our discussions produced one
more assignment. Could I find a way to fulfill his dream to keep these
works alive for the generations of students he would not be able to teach
in the classroom?

From the seed of that dream has grown the new Walvoord Commentary
series. The team that took up that dream is made up of men my father
knew and trusted. And as he would have guessed, it was championed by

Greg Thornton, senior vice president of Moody Publishers.
Philip Rawley agreed to take the lead as the editor of the series. And
he took on the assignment with much more than the word “editor”

implies. Phil was both a student of my father’s and a friend. As far back
as twenty-five years ago he collaborated with me to help my father with
a project that became Every Prophecy of the Bible. Since then we have
worked together on many writing projects.

But I believe this may have been one of Phil Rawley’s most important
tasks. He was much more than an editor. In many instances he took up
the mantle of the writer who could best capture the way my father
would have explained his biblical insights to a new generation of
students.

Dr. Mark Hitchcock also agreed to join the team. Because of Mark’s
interest in prophecy, he and my father of ten had lunch to discuss key
issues in biblical prophecy. Mark is a great admirer of my father’s work

and a prolific author in his own right who had written more than fifteen
books on prophecy and end-time events before we met. Mark was a
natural choice to work with me to research and write Armageddon, Oil,
and Terror shortly after my father’s death. In that process we became
close friends in the quest to turn my father’s ideas and notes into an
entirely new work. It was an amazing journey.

Dr. Hitchcock has collaborated on Revelation and has taken on the