This week, we talk about eschatology—the study of the end times. Church history is replete with people predicting the end of the world and Jesus’ second coming. And yet, we’re still here. We examine the common thread that ties all these predictions together, and do a deep dive into the various views of the second coming, and the four main frameworks used to understand and interpret apocalyptic literature in scripture.
In this episode:
(00:00) - Intro
(00:48) - Weather skeptics?
(03:06) - Are we living in the last days?
(05:24) - Chrisitan Skepticism is a third way between extremes
(09:31) - Eschatology 101
(18:04) - The Futurist View
(20:03) - The Historicist View
(20:31) - The Idealist View
(21:06) - The Preterist View
(24:13) - The Day of the Lord
(38:10) - The Rapture
(41:22) - Why does any of this matter?
(47:40) - Recommended reading
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