![]() ![]() What the national director and other people who share his sentiment are focused on is the seven years of intense persecution and the wrath of God upon the oppressive systems of the world. (If you haven't guessed yet, this is the depressing part.) At the end of the seven years, he will unite the nations and lead a war against YHWH but Jesus will return and will destroy the army, seize the Antichrist and throw him into the lake of fire along with his false prophet and will rule over the earth physically for 1000 years before the final judgment and the New Jerusalem which lasts for eternity. During Hanukkah this year, I was simply reminded of the hope we have, and I wanted to share it with you, regardless of what you believe on the subject.Ĭlassic post-trib premillennialism holds to the idea that the world and its governmental systems stand increasingly opposed to the rule and reign of Christ when this opposition reaches a tipping point, a figure called the Antichrist will appear who will bring tyranny to the world and will persecute anyone who refuses to worship him for a period of seven years called the Great Tribulation. (If you don't know what that is, here is an article that shows the garden variety eschatological belief systems in the Christian Church.) Now, I'm not writing this article to convince you to share my view if you hold to another opinion, God bless you-you can continue to be happy in your error (just kidding, lol). ![]() While there are certainly variations within views on the end of the current age, I am basically what is known as a classic post-tribulation pre-millennialist. Aside from my firm belief that our doctrines should be determined by revelation of the Holy Spirit aided by proper exegesis of the Biblical texts rather than by how a particular passage makes us feel, I would like to finally respond to this charge. About fifteen years ago, the national director of the denomination of which I was a member at the time wrote an article saying that the eschatological framework I happen to believe was too depressing. ![]()
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