End Time Bible Prophecy
Walking through any Christian bookstore, you'll see many books on the End-Times and the last days of earth. I am sure that we can all name a certain series of novels that are very popular. Movies, comic books, bookmarks, bible commentaries and other items related their main theme certainly prove that their popularity has made both men very wealthy. But have you ever stopped to consider if those two fine writers had their facts straight?
I checked out a book on the End Times and found it to be very fascinating, and informative. However, when you look in the cover it is written by the same person who wrote that best selling series. No wonder the theology matched up. My next stop is to read the material written by other well-known Ministers and Teachers; surely we all believe the same thing?
Don't you believe it!
I found one man who teaches that there will be a rapture of the church or a ''catching" away prior to the great tribulation.
There is another man who teaches that the church will live through the first 3 1/2 years of the tribulation and it will be a time of peace and safety. But then the rapture will occur and the final 3 1/2 years will be the GREAT tribulation.
Then another very well known minister teaches that there will be rapture at the end of the Great Tribulation.
Now if that doesn't make your head spin enough, there is another view on the End Times that says the End Times have already happened. Yet those who espouse this view vary even more and suggest that the Rapture occurred in or around the time of Emperor Nero and that Emperor Nero was the Anti Christ. Along with that view are others who believe that the Tribulation was during the time of Nero and there will not be rapture, we are just waiting for the last days.
While you are opening that bottle of Ibuprofen, consider . . .
- Whether or not there will be an Anti-Christ or if the Anti-Christ is an end time system of government.
- Will the Mark of the Beast be an actual brand?
- Will it be a tattoo?
- How about a computer chip?
- Who is or will be the Antichrist?
- Will the Antichrist be a homosexual?
- Will it be a female?
- A Backslidden Jew?
- An Arab? (One man claims to have met his prophet who is Arabic)
- Where is the United States in Bible Prophecy?
- Are we in the Tribulation now?
- Is the U N the end time world government?
- Will the U.S. A. and Isreal be protected from the One World Government?
- Will Islam be the end time one-world religion?
It would seem to me that our mission is to reach the lost; to go into the whole world and teach all nations about salvation in Jesus Christ who died for our sins. If we make that our number one mission as a church then we will have little time to argue about the End Times.
One well known minister has long said that he is Pan Trib. He said that if we live for God, it would all pan out in the end. I believe there is much wisdom in those words.
