I used to be very involved in End Times prophecy. I suppose this depends on how you use the word "Very." I certainly read a lot and listened a lot back in my college days (40 years ago). Back then Hal Lindsey and Jack Van Impe were all over the place. This was before the …
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Since the late 1800s, it has been common in Christian mission circles to have slogans or rallying cries around "finishing the task" or "fulfilling the Great Commission." Whether it be "this generation" or "2000 AD" I have never liked the slogans. For one, they have often been used to promote one-sided missions (evangelism rather than …
I went to a Christian college back in the 1980s. At that school, Hal Lindsay was all the rage. He promoted a certain type of understanding of the future, and particularly a way of reading he Book of Revelation in the Bible. I knew this understanding as "PreTrib PreMill" but the more formal encapsulating term …
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I have heard the question posed to the effect of, "What should we be doing if Christ returns today?" Or sometimes it is worded regarding tomorrow. There seem to be different things that come up. Usually suggestions come along like: We should be REALLY HOLY for the next few hours. We should be rather frantic …
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