Posts Tagged ‘Day of the Lord’

If Ham and Eggs Can Talk, Why Can’t the Stars in the Day of the Lord?


little-rascalsIf I were you, I would be a bit curious of a title, If Ham and Eggs Can Talk, Why Can’t the Stars, in the Day of the Lord? Don’t you think it’s a rather
interesting eschatological theme? Well, here’s what provoked the title.

As a child I remember growing up watching the Little Rascals on TV, before going to school. On one episode, a Stymie persuaded whom I vaguely
remember might have been his friends to cook him some ham and eggs. He told him that ham and eggs could talk. Well, after a little persuasion and
determination, they fried some ham and eggs, and upon his disappointment of their utter speechlessness, left the meal on the table oozing with aroma
and flavor for Stymie’s hungry stomach.

When Stymie was confronted by his friends, saying, “I thought you said ‘ham and eggs could talk.’, Stymie replied as he chomped down the food, “These
ham and eggs are saying (more…)

Can We Go Back to the Future on the End Time?


back_to_the_future_on_the_end_time1If there has ever been a subject hard to be understood it is that of the “already but not yet” of New Testament eschatology. In a chapter from “The Last Things” edited by Carl Braaten and Robert W. Jenson, includes a chapter on hints from Science for Eschatology — and Vice Versa, written by George L. Murphy. It isan attempt to understand the end of the world in the light of science.

Can we go back to the future on the end time? What this means is that we must go backwards to get to the Bible future for the end, not to the future.  Of course, an interpretation based upon science may rules out such a notion. However, God did not write eschatology as science. In the sixth century John Philoponus, who in debating with pagan Proclus, argued (more…)

Is the Day of the Lord Near?


Steps on the north side of the Jerusalem temple

The prophets all spoke of the day of the Lord.
However, they all spoke of a time that was
future to their day. Is the day of the Lord
near to us?

Peter records that they did not prophesy for
their time, but for a future generation. Abraham,
who likewise saw the day of God, (John 8:56),
saw it afar off (Heb. 11:13).

On the other hand, some in the New Testament
saw the day of the Lord as having occurred as
early as the mid-first century. (2 Thess 2:1).

Why is there such a wide span of time related
to the day of the Lord? How can this time span
as early as the first century to as long as some
time in our future?

Such uncertainty creates endless speculations
both about the veracity of end time prophecy
and the time in which the event would occur.

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