RABBONI...which is to say, Master

If you ask most Christians what they believe about the “end times”, they will probably tell you what they believe, and then quickly follow with, “but it really doesn’t matter what you believe, it is not a salvation issue.”  I would agree with the last part of that statement, but not so much the first part. Gary DeMar has written an article that gives a little incite into just how the “Left Behind” phenomena has impacted Christian attitudes.

The “great prophetic disappointment” of 1988 and the fizzle of the Left Behind franchise doesn’t mean formerly “rapture-ready” Christians have abandoned a belief in the return of Christ, but it has led to a fundamental reassessment of the interpretive methodology that has been used to make repeated dogmatic arguments for an imminent end-time event. Many Bible-believing Christians who cut their teeth on the works of notable prophecy prognosticators have questioned the popular end-time paradigm to such an extent that they “are not awaiting [Jesus’] return at the Rapture”¹ but instead are focusing on John Winthrop’s “city upon the hill” metaphor adopted from his “Model of Christian Charity” (1630). They have come to realize that the version of the end times that defined the twentieth century and continues to hold sway in this new century is a prophetic anomaly that had no history prior to 1830: (Click Here To Read The Rest Of The Article)