Christian End Times Prophecy

Jonathan Brentner wrote a blog post regarding the strange phenomenon of pastors who won't say the word "rapture" in their preaching . I'm sure there are lots of reasons for it. "There are differing views." "I might make someone angry who holds a different view." "No one can really know what it means." "I don't want anyone to leave because Revelation is weird." "People want practical teaching on how to live their daily lives." "It doesn't fit into my series." Etc. It's the last one that gets me the most, in this day and age. Our daily lives are complete chaos right now. What used to pass as practical teaching before 2020 almost seems comical right now. The words from Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Thessalonians, Revelation...they are practically crawling out of people's Bibles and waving at them to take a look. Nope. Same old pre-2020 sermons, with a dash of woke for some preachers. One way you ca...

There are a lot of books out there about the end times, but I wanted to share a few with you that I've read recently and that adhere to a pre-trib pre-millennial view. +++ Agents of the Apocalypse , by David Jeremiah, is a great read.  What's unique about this book is that it combines a few fictional threads along with a detailed explanation, based in scripture, about each player in the end times. (It is similar to  Agents of Babylon  in approach, which does the same fiction+Bible mix.) The book is broken up into chapters, highlighting one of the players (the Woman, the Dragon, the Beast, the False Prophet, the Victor, etc.). The chapters start as a fictional telling of what might happen in an engaging way that is very believable. Then, the rest of the chapter breaks down everything you need to know about the topic using lots of scripture.  We often see similar books focus on the "usual" suspects, but Jeremiah brings in the devil and Jesus in a way that helps us un...

Since late 2020, I've run a page on MeWe where I've shared articles, videos, and information that relate to Bible prophecy and the end times. In the summer of 2021, I added a Telegram channel. There are many views of Bible prophecy and the end times. As noted in the site description, this site takes a pre-tribulation pre-millennial dispensational view.  Very basically, I believe the rapture happens before the 7 year tribulation, of which the last half is the Great Tribulation. The rapture is imminent, which means are no signs necessary for the rapture. There are signs for things pertaining to the Second Coming of Christ, but not the rapture. Sometimes those signs throw a shadow back on how we live now, which is why people will say "signs of the times" as a way of saying "we're seeing the beginning birth pangs of what is going to happen at the end." The rapture takes Christ's church out of the world before the nation of Israel becomes God's focus...