The End of the World?

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So Thanks, Chris Did you know that the end of the world was supposed to begin again on April 23rd?

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And maybe you guys missed it because you're still recovering from Harold camping's failed prediction of May 21st 2011 wait,

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I don't hang on now I got that wrong when that one failed he gave us a new one and that one Original one was a secret world ending event he meant

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October 21st 2011 I guess we can all be very sympathetic to Harry the day after this massive failed prediction and millions of people's hard -earned

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Money was lost after investing and getting the message out that the world was going to end yet again

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I'm sorry Do I? No, no, no interviews.

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No interviews say Give me a day.

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No, no interviews at all today Sorry, sorry, you know

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This is a big deal big deal and I've got a little bit

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I've got to think it out and so no interviews Okay Like how you can hear him say no,

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I've got to live with this Really I really do or maybe we're also recovering from John Hagee's 2014 blood -moon debacle

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That first describes a time in the future when the Sun and the moon will eclipse at the same time and God Sends planet

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Earth a signal that something big is about to happen He's controlling the

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Sun and the moon right now to send our generation a signal

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But the question is are we getting it? Apparently not only are we not getting it.

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Mr. Hagee, but neither is God And by the way, dozens of blood moons have occurred since the first century

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So not that special and this didn't stop Hagee from introducing a companion guide

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To his initial book on the blood moons called blood moon. Give me a break. I'm doing my best and this is loads of fun

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Now the last couple of centuries have been filled with false prophecies about the end of the world and there is no shortage of Prophecy peddlers who love to capitalize on the fears of people about the future even

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Joseph Smith the false prophet of Mormonism Tried his hand at this genre and predicted the return of Christ and the end of the world in his generation that sounds kind of dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb now from Edgar Wisen and popular book 88 reasons why the rapture will be in 1988 to its companion and follow -ups the final shout rapture report 1989 to 23 reasons why a pre -tribulational rapture looks like it will occur on Rosh Hashanah 1993 to and now the earth's destruction by fire nuclear bomb fire 1994

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Those are all real books by the way all of them in a line now We've all had enough of the very profitable prophecy peddlers end of the world book of the month

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Club of course that isn't stopping the Well -known charlatan Jim Baker from selling us end times gravy

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Tribulation queso, it's called queso It's called queso and end of the world port -a -potties

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This would be a great Christmas present for somebody because put a big bow on it You know yeah in a time of a great a time of emergency

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This is going to be one of the most sought -after items that you're gonna wish you had Yeah, and everybody who has storage of food you ought to have that's right one of our little port -a -potties

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This here it's the spread the word Bible this great big huge But inside of here is two dozen

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Bibles 24 Bibles in this bucket. I think it'd be a fantastic Idea really to honestly bury a bucket of the

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Bibles Have you asked me honestly just to be transparent?

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I think one of the best uses for Jim Baker's food buckets or that port -a -potty. I think it's it's a great idea

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Now the question The question we all have to ask ourselves is are we done yet?

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Are we finished listening to these used car salesmen in Christian garb? I mean how many times do we actually have to experience the apocalypse and how many pockets do we have to line before we go?

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Back to the Bible, and we ask the question What does the Bible say about the future for example?

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Did you know that before the 1800s the dominant Christian view of the future of the world was?

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optimistic Christians in the Puritan tradition believed that the Bible taught that Jesus had assumed his position on throne and that the kingdoms of the

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World were working their way into the kingdom of God through the preaching of the gospel now

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This was behind this was actually the driving force behind so much of the advancement that we saw in missions and in progress in the

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West however We lost it Christians we lost it in the West we lost our optimism about the future and when we gave up the ancient

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Jewish and Christian view of the future in a renewed and restored world under the

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Messiah the unbelievers and secularists put on our clothes and they became the optimists about the future and they started working hard for it hard All the while Christians retreated looking to escape this world rather than bring it under the authority and rule of Jesus Problem is when unbelievers steal our stuff

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They always end up screwing it up if you don't believe me then you might be sick dead or asleep or To be fair you may be still are recovering from Jim Baker's bucket of Armageddon stew

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Either way put down the end times gravy for just a sec and listen ancient

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Jewish and Christian eschatology taught that under the Messiah's rule the world would experience a full renewal a

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New creation if you will the Old Testament taught that the Messiah would accomplish his redemptive work

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And then he would take his place on his throne, and he'd put every enemy under his feet

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That's a quotation from Psalm 110 1 it's also the most quoted and Alluded to verse from the

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Old Testament in the New Testament call it God's favorite Bible verse What's the point the point is is that the early

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Christians believed that Jesus had taken his place on his throne? He was the ruler of the world and that the world was being worked into subjection to him

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Far from having an eschatology of defeat and retreat Early Christians and the

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Puritans held to a view of total victory Read first Corinthians 15 to get

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Paul's timeline and view of the future. What's the point? Well as my friend says you hit what you aim at if we believe that our destination is defeat then we will live and work like it is if we believe like the

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Bible that Jesus is Lord of Lords King of Kings and that as Psalm 2 says the rulers and kings of the earth are supposed to obey

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Jesus Then we'll live and work like that We'll stop selling end times gravy and we'll start making gravy for the long haul

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We'll stop wasting paper and ink on failed end times prophecies And we'll start putting optimistic ink to paper telling the world about how

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Jesus is making all things new We'll enter into the vocation of being light to the world and being a city on a hill

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Rather than handing over our optimistic clothes to the secularists who will just build a different kind of Empire Only when they do it, it'll be the kind of Empire that Karl Marx envisioned

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You see this is the point if you read Colossians chapter 1 you'll see that the Apostle Paul envisioned

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Jesus as Reconciling all things to himself. Listen to this on Earth and in heaven if you read 1st

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Corinthians chapter 15, you'll see the Eschatology of the Apostles inspired scripture is that Jesus right now?

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He's ascended and he took his seat. He's on that Davidic throne He's ruling over his kingdom and it actually says that he must reign

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He's doing it now until he's put every enemy under his feet as a footstool for his feet and he says then comes the end

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Then comes the end when he finally defeats death only after every other enemy is tucked away under his feet

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You see it's it's as obvious as the nose on all of our faces as Christians. Just consider this

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I know this is challenging to a lot of us And I know we poked fun today just a bit at the

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Rapture and all the things are being left behind But just think about this. What do we pray in the Lord's Prayer thy kingdom come?

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Thy will be done where on Earth as it is in heaven.

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You see that is the eschatology of optimism You see it's not really a question of all these different eschatologies.

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Which one is right? It really comes down to the eschatology of optimism or Pessimism Which one do you have if you hold to the former that Jesus is ruling now?

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reigning that he's the king that he's in charge and that he's winning the world with his gospel and the word of disciple all the

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Nations you'll live in a much different way. And I think if we're honest with ourselves That's the thing that gnaws at us if we see the future in a different way that Jesus actually wins history before he returns

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All of us recognize that we have to live in the light of that it'll change our whole perspective and I Hope that it does next week with Jeff Durbin the late -night show with the unpopular opinion