Biblical Prophecy in Action

 

Look…I am not up on an understanding of end-times theology, how to interpret Daniel or Revelation as it relates to Apache helicopters or anything like that.  So, if I get a couple of details wrong here, please go gently.  Anyway, I got the details from John Hagee, so if I am wrong, blame him.

The year 1948 is found in code in Scripture.  It says that in that year the countdown to Armageddon begins.  What is Armageddon?  An army of two-hundred million wipe out Israel and the good times roll.  Christians from Texas and the rest of the Bible belt will be swept up in the Rapture, clearing the atmosphere just ahead of the nuclear fallout. 

Well, it’s something like this.

Now, I have long felt that this Christian belief would turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.  Absent the support of tens of millions of Christian Zionists in the United States, all the lobbying millions in the world wouldn’t sway elections toward the policies we have seen pursued in the last decades.

But what if it isn’t a self-fulfilling prophecy.  More accurately, what if it is just as God designed?  He knew that the crazies in America would swallow Scofield completely, leading to this moment.

But what is this moment?  Well, I am terrible at writing about current events.  But is seems to me that there is a greater than zero-percent chance that Iran will outlast Israel and the United States in this war.  And if they do, there is a greater than zero-percent chance that either Israel or the United States will launch a nuke against Tehran.  Once that happens, the Middle East goes poof.

Yes, I know.  Greater than zero isn’t very much of a chance.  But how many chambers do you want in your handgun before you are willing to play roulette with a nuclear tipped round?

And, who knows.  Christians may be raptured just in the nick of time.  The thing is, I think the Hagee-type will be surprised to find out that they didn’t get a ticket for that ride – they might find that they have been “left behind.” 

It might be those other Christians – the “fake” ones – who disappear into the clouds.  You know, the ones that disagree with Dallas Theological Seminary and the like.

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Please note: I don’t believe any of this version of end-times nonsense.  But this is where much of American Evangelical Christianity points.

Matthew 7: 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’