Bad Eschatology And An Announcement
After getting both books out a month ago, I went looking for what other people believe about Last Days. It has been a fascinating journey through some really bad eschatology. Worse, very few seem to understand why they believe what they believe, and even fewer seem able to understand why people would disagree with their position. That’s bad.
Our pastors have not been giving us the tools to help us understand the Bible, to rightly divide the word of Truth (2 Tim 2:15). And, because we are unable to do so, Christianity has devolved into a team sport, where ours is always right and yours is heresy.
Bad Eschatology
To be clear, we all – all of us – get things wrong. There is not a single person on this planet without error in what he or she believes to be true. You, me, everyone – we all get something wrong. There have been several times in my own life, in which I had to unlearn what I thought to be true. And yes, that’s hard to do.
So, is it possible to give brothers and sisters in Christ the permission to make mistakes since we make them too?
Unfortunately, the answer to that question seems to be “NO!”, since I’ve been thrown out of three Eschatology forums already. Asking questions that the people can’t answer, is a quick way to get you thrown out.
What got me banned?
Talking about Daniel’s 70 Weeks.
It is amazing to see the howls of outrage if you dare to claim that there is no gap between Week 69 and Week 70 in Daniel’s prophecy about the coming of Messiah. And, when you point out that Jesus confirmed the New Covenant with many, after He died and rose again and ended the need for animal sacrifices, they’ll take you out and give you a good stoning.
I find it ironic that my position was actually quite common among Christians up until John Nelson Darby arrived on the scene in the 1830s. Yet, according to some, I’m bringing in some alien ideology to corrupt the church. But, when I mention that Spurgeon held the same view, they get really quiet and change the subject.
The Seven Year Tribulation Theory
By the way, whenever someone says that the Great Tribulation is seven years long, it means that they believe in the gap theory about Daniel’s 70 Weeks. They think that the final Week will be fulfilled in the future.
Yet, there is no place in scripture that records the Great Tribulation as being seven years long.
Think that through for a moment. Nowhere is the Great Tribulation described as seven years long. Not one verse in any book of the Bible makes any mention of it. Not. One.
So, why do they do this?
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