Armageddon: Are You Seeking an Escape Route?

January 29th, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment  
Armageddon: Are You Seeking an Escape Route? Much of what is taught regarding the end time is fear-based eschatology. Armageddon: Are You Seeking an Escape Route? pretty much says everything about the escapism predominant in churches today. Preoccupation with Armageddon characterizes those influenced by the escapist of Rapture theology. At the heart of the Rapture doctrine is fear, fear to face what is believed to be the great tribulation and a coming cataclysmic melt down of the planet. Christians are not spiritual Houdini’s seeking to escape from the world. Rather, they were assured they had overcome the world by their faith.  ...
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Are We Living in the Last Days?

December 8th, 2008 | Day of the Lord | No Comment  
Ask 9.99 out of 10 people are we living in the last days? No doubt, they’ll say yes. How do they know? Just look at the signs, they say. Why does every generation believe they have a corner on the signs of Christ’s return? Are we living in the last days again? Is the end coming again? Are we about to be raptured, again? Why doesn’t someone stop and smell the burnt coffee beans of on again, off again eschatology? How many times do they need to cry wolf, before tiring of this? Wasn’t Hal Lindsey and Edgar Whisenant enough in the 80’s? How soon do some forget or ignore the facts? These Hagee types would rather nuke the world than give up their prophecies ...
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