Education Fall Application is Now Open! Mark Jobe. Moody Publishers Dr. John Perkins with wise words to the church on race. Moody Events Learn about Moody's Conferences. Also of Interest:. The first point is derived especially from Matthew 24; 2 Thessalonians 2; and Revelation The second point is derived especially from 1 Thessalonians 4 and 5 and Revelation 7 and Of course, both points consider numerous corollary issues and passages.
In the main, though, pretribulationism is ruled out by the first point and posttribulationism by the second. That is, if the abomination of desolation is an event we can observe happening, wouldn't that signal that the rapture will be imminent? Since the prewrath position requires the rise of Antichrist and his abomination of desolation before the rapture, it means that, in this view, the rapture is not imminent in the sense of being able to happen at any moment.
Matthew —33 suggests that this is proper. Do you think it gives off the impression that Christians are just eager to escape the world and leave it to its own destruction? Paul enjoined against something like the first problem in the Thessalonian letters and Jesus something like the second in John. Getting things straight scripturally is important, but majoring on the minors and becoming arrogant and unloving in the process, both toward insiders and outsiders, is not of the Spirit.
How should Christians defend the idea of the rapture in a more intelligent or believable way? Well, defending what the Bible says is always going to be a joke as far as the world is concerned. More knowledgeable Christians can try to explain to an incredulous world what defensible interpretations lead us to conclude about the return of Christ.
In the midst of various interpretations of the end times, what would you say are the most important eschatological truths or facts that all Christians should cling to?
Things indisputably taught in Scripture and central to our faith are essential; things less clearly taught are non-essential. That Jesus is coming again to vindicate his church and judge the enemies of God is the big essential. That is the blessed hope of the church. One branch of Christian theology, dispensational premillennialism, holds that Christ will physically return to earth to sort the wicked from the godly before a tribulation, when anyone left behind will suffer various torments and plagues.
During the election, Lindsey wrote that Barack Obama was paving the way for the Antichrist. The literal-minded belief in how Judgment Day will go down got a darkly funny spin during one of the opening sequences of another HBO offering, Six Feet Under , in which a woman witnesses a bunch of inflatable sex dolls escaping into the sky from the back of a delivery truck, mistakes them for angels floating up to heaven, and gets so excited about the Second Coming that she runs fatally into the middle of oncoming traffic.
Contact us at letters time. By Dan Stewart. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Certain strains of evangelical thought that many members of the mainstream media have long dismissed have come to the fore.
RaptureAnxiety, like ChurchToo by which people shared stories of sexual harassment at church and EmptythePews which critiqued hypocrisy in the evangelical community before it, seeks to amplify the voices of those affected by the waves rocking the evangelical community.
In most accounts of the rapture, believers go straight to heaven, while nonbelievers are left behind to undergo a period of political chaos and personal torment.
One contributor to the hashtag recalls that the anticipation of the rapture led some people in her community to max out their credit cards, believing that the rapture would come before payment was due.
Another recalls the terror she felt when her parents forgot to pick her up from a junior high school soccer practice and she became convinced that they had been raptured, leaving her behind to face tribulations alone. The writer D. Mayfield recalls how she never made college plans, as she was convinced the rapture would come before she turned Prepared for the end times. Never thought I would live past 16 which is partly why I never made college plans. Thinking back on all of this RaptureAnxiety stuff today and I have to say I am so grateful to still have faith in God and God's kingdom.
Christian traditions have varying understandings of the end of the world, rooted in different interpretations of the Bible in particular, the book of Revelation.
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