Russia-Ukraine war: Some pastors wonder about ‘end of days’
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“A ‘Rapture Index’ — on which any reading above 160 means ‘Fasten your seatbelts’ — was raised this week to 187, close to its record high of 189 in 2016.” - RNS
How Is the Great Tribulation Shortened?
How is the Great Tribulation Shortened? The GT is said to last 42 months, 1260 days or time, times and half a time. The perspective below is premillennial and futuristic.
Encountering a New Rapture View
When I first encountered the prewrath rapture view (PW), what struck me was its claim that the “Great Tribulation” would last less than 3.5 years. This was the initial reason why I didn’t buy into the system. The phrase “after the tribulation has been cut short” is pivotal. Other tenets hinge on this unique interpretation of Matt 24:22.
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How It Ends... Living in the Now—Patient Endurance
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“It’s those with long experience who are in a position to “keep calm and carry on”—to focus on executing the fundamentals when it looks like the other team is just going to run up the score. To be the tortoise rather than the hare.” - Olinger
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How It Ends, Part 2: Anticipating the Then
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“Our knowledge of the eternal state, however, is much less extensive. Most of it is confined to the last two chapters of the Bible, Revelation 21-22. The environment portrayed there seems to have two outstanding characteristics” - Olinger
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How It Ends, Part 1: Taking the Long View
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“There are significant arguments, as we would expect, over the path we follow to get there…but the main truths of how it ends are pretty clear. And thus it’s equally clear how we should live now in light of where we’re headed.” - Olinger
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We Already Know the Rest of the Story
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“Salvation, however, is not just a one-way bus ticket to heaven, or the earth a bus stop where it doesn’t really matter what we do while we wait for the bus.” - IFWE
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“The doctrine of last things certainly has to reckon with all these things.”
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“The above quote comes from an interesting little paragraph in Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics….By ‘these things,’ Bavinck means the technological developments in communication up into the early 20th century.” - Ref21
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Should Christians Prepare for the Antichrist?
Should Christians prepare for the Antichrist? If the answer is in the affirmative, what does that preparation look like? I’ve asked this question on numerous occasions.
Losing your soul to pretrib
One argument goes something like this: When the Antichrist arrives first, pretribbers will confuse his persecution with God’s wrath and subsequently believe they’ve been left behind after the rapture. They’ll become spiritually vulnerable to take the Mark of the Beast. Throwaway snippets like this remind me of superficial Memes I see on social media.
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