Karl Barth, theologian and scholar fittingly wrote a latter chapter of Dogmatics in Outline on the “Coming of Jesus Christ the Judge.” Karl Barth’s beliefs of Christ’s coming as judge are futuristic. He however, recognized the already but not yet of eschatology. Problems addressed in the book are the Christians view of time, which he styles as “real time” versus God’s time. Dogmatics in Outline Defined Pre-Parousia Time In Karl Barth’s theology summary of present time, he saw Christ sitting at the right hand of God. This for him represented the present.  As such, the event occurred in real time. From this he concluded and rightly so that eternity had broken into ...

No doubt, all of us have some garments which tend to wrinkle more than others. I can think of linen and cotton, which require some pressing, starch or dry cleaning to solve the problem. In the area of eschatology, it may be wise to ask, “Does Your Rapture Ready Garment Have Wrinkles?” We’ve pointed out a couple of the wrinkles in the Rapture teaching advanced by “Charting the End Times. With all the charting in the book, it never addressed the “little while” time parameter of the end! Note the following passages. John 16:16–19 A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, ...

One of the most important elements of events is time, i.e. when is that event going to occur. Everything in life is an event in that everything occurs or exists in time. What Did Charting the End Times Miss on the Rapture of the Church? One of the most important elements of the event, —time. Charting the End Times, a very graphically pleasing book of charts on eschatology authored by Tim Lahaye and Thomas Ice, devotes a chapter on the Rapture. It is there purpose to “chart” the time of the end, i.e. when the last days events will occur. They begin with several points on the events of the ...