Dr. Pentecost has the distinction of being only one of two professors honored as Distinguished Professor in the history of Dallas Theological Seminary. In addition to his classroom teaching and his writing, Pentecost has had a Bible conference ministry that has covered the globe from the British Isles and Europe to the Middle East and Far East, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. These ministries have given believers new insight in consistent, literal, grammatical, historical interpretation of the Scriptures. Perhaps the magnum opus of Pentecost's writings is Things to Come , a definitive work of dispensational premillennial eschatology, published in 1958. In developing a biblical eschatology, Pentecost exposes the weakness of allegorical interpretation and demonstrates the need for consistent literal interpretation.
Literal interpretation is the normal, ordinary, customary usage of words.
It is the grammatical-historical method of interpretation. Interpretive principles involve interpreting words in their normal meaning, interpreting according to context and historical setting, considering the grammar of the text in the original languages, as well as recognizing figurative language. This interpretation provides consistency and leads to premillennialism. The Abrahamic covenant guarantees Israel a permanent national existence, perpetual title to the land of promise, and the certainty of material and spiritual blessing through Christ. It awaits future, literal fulfillment by the physical descendants of Abraham.