The Last Days

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Introduction: Unfortunately, church history is full of examples of eschatological malpractice. That is, countless examples of last days predictions, speculations, crazy prophecy scenarios, that always prove false. How many times have you heard it? Something happens in the news, some NOTABLE THING takes place in the world, and some prophecy teacher tells us why THIS is a sign that we are at the very end. Whether it’s a blood moon, or we’re invading Iraq, or there’s a shift in weather patterns, or we’re approaching a new millennium, it MUST have biblical significance. In 1988, Edgar C. Whisenant gave us 88 reasons why Jesus was returning in 1988. The former NASA engineer was suddenly famous as a prophecy teacher. He was wrong. He was off at least 30 years, and we’re still counting. He’s just one example of what has happened repeatedly. This is not some benign thing. It’s too serious to laugh about. False teaching in this area has contributed to people losing their lives and souls. Some of the ideas come from groups that don’t represent biblical Christianity. Many cults have arisen out of end times views. The leader of the group claims to be some sort of prophet. Their group is supposedly the fulfillment of some body of people mentioned in some prophetic section of Scripture. And a whole religious system is built on a perversion of what the Bible teaches about the end of the age. And people follow, to the loss of their soul. But it’s not just the cults that can have an unhealthy approach to eschatology. There have been many people who were otherwise sound in the faith, who have focused on last days events in a very unsound way. This has injured the church. It can bring confusion and doubt. It can produce an indifference to what people SHOULD care about. God hasn’t given us information about the end of the age for us to ignore. Don’t doubt that it’s Satanic that so much doubt has been attached to the beginning of the story in Scripture, and the end. The Bible DOES teach us about the end of the ages. This world will not continue forever as it is. Jesus is coming again. The church is meant to live in the light of the return of Christ. And we live in a world that scoffs at this. The world already scoffs at the truth of Christ’s return.

Topics

• Second Coming
• Prophecy & End Times