Watch this video and see if you think people are going too far with their eschatology, and profiting from it.
H/T: Ben Witherington III
Watch this video and see if you think people are going too far with their eschatology, and profiting from it.
H/T: Ben Witherington III
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Yes, yes they are taking it way to far. But that really shouldn’t surprise us, should it?
Bush once said he felt that God had called him to bring about Armageddon. So why shouldn’t big names like Haggai make a little money from the hype?
So sad.
Firstly, I think we need to see that it was this journalists intention to make these guys look like they were lunatics and I am sure that he sifted out the choicest statements (although I am sure he had much to choose from) to make these guys look like nutcases.
Secondly, he does raise some good points. Although Haggee denies that their eschatology has any correlation with their support of Israel I think it is undeniable. They support Israel because of their Left Behind eschatology and the view that all of the ethnic Jews will one day embrace Christ while all of these gnasty wars are going on in Israel.
It really raises the issue of what shhould our view be of Israel as Christians. I don’t really know. On the one hand it is clear that most of the ethnic Jews in Israel are secular and don’t care about God. Should I as a Christian support them simply because they are ethnic Jews? Paul said they are not all Israel who are Israel, so he himself saw a distinction between ethnic Jews and spiritual Israel. So I really think the church is Israel.
On the other hand there do seem to be promises (I am thinking of Romans 11) to the ethnic Jews and their salvation.
So my view is somewhat confused, having come out of the muck of rapturism in my early days as a Christian, to now being rather agnostic about the end times and millenium in general.
Oh BTW I like the new layout
I hear ya, Bob. While I see the above video as both a hit piece and as demonstrating some more extreme views within protestantism. I honestly don’t know what to do with Israel, on its many levels presented in the NT.