Scotth1960
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Dear friends, What do you think of Hal Lindsey's writings and work? Doesn't his
sensational "headlines from the newspapers" approach to NT theology actually
conflict with the actual meaning of the NT?
It is perhaps true, more than other times, our times could be called "apocalyptic".
Nuclear weapons, chemical and biological warfare, and such things, threaten the
very existence and survival of humanity.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise that people like Hal Lindsey come along,
and also writers like Tim LaHaye, writing of Armageddon, the end times, and
Bible prophecy. Much of the rhetoric in their books is very superficial, and
not of much substance. Such books like Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth
do little more than entertain. They do not teach the actual message of the
epistles of the NT, and the Gospels.
The gullible reader may find that the ancient prophecies of the Apocalypse
can be easily made to seem to "fit together" to apply to our very own times.
Lindsey identifies different Scriptural persons in his works, such as Gog, Magog,
the king of the north, the king of the south, and he tries to apply these
ancient terms, which referred to actual historical nations and persons of the
PAST, to apply to our own times and the FUTURE, and to contemporary
nations such as Russia, China, Europe, Israel, the Arab Countries, and so on.
Much ado is made by Bible prophecy fans of the Common Market of Europe
and the European Union. People try, from age to age, starting in the late
1800s, to play a game called "pin the tail on the Antichrist". Such fervor for
the end times actually began with Joseph Smith and the Mormons in 1830, and
in the same year, with John Nelson Darby and Edward Irving in England, Ireland
and Scotland. Later, Charles Taze Russell and the Watchtower Society of PA
(and the Jehovah's Witnesses), and Ellen G. White of the Seventh-day
Adventists, continue a modern trend of failed Bible prophecy predictions of the
alleged second coming of Christ in 1843 and 1844 as predicted by Baptist
preacher, William Miller. People like Miller are still among us today, with people
like Harold Camping predicting the end of history and all things in this year of
2011 AD, and some people say it's not 2011, but 2012, following "Mayan"
prophecy, (who knows why? that is questionable and pagan), and some say
2015. Sir Isaac Newton predicted the end times to end in 2060.
But all Christ said was, "No man knows the day nor the hour, but only My Father
which is in Heaven". That word of Christ is the truth in all the apocalyptic
ages of uncertainty. In Erie PA Scott Harrington
sensational "headlines from the newspapers" approach to NT theology actually
conflict with the actual meaning of the NT?
It is perhaps true, more than other times, our times could be called "apocalyptic".
Nuclear weapons, chemical and biological warfare, and such things, threaten the
very existence and survival of humanity.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise that people like Hal Lindsey come along,
and also writers like Tim LaHaye, writing of Armageddon, the end times, and
Bible prophecy. Much of the rhetoric in their books is very superficial, and
not of much substance. Such books like Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth
do little more than entertain. They do not teach the actual message of the
epistles of the NT, and the Gospels.
The gullible reader may find that the ancient prophecies of the Apocalypse
can be easily made to seem to "fit together" to apply to our very own times.
Lindsey identifies different Scriptural persons in his works, such as Gog, Magog,
the king of the north, the king of the south, and he tries to apply these
ancient terms, which referred to actual historical nations and persons of the
PAST, to apply to our own times and the FUTURE, and to contemporary
nations such as Russia, China, Europe, Israel, the Arab Countries, and so on.
Much ado is made by Bible prophecy fans of the Common Market of Europe
and the European Union. People try, from age to age, starting in the late
1800s, to play a game called "pin the tail on the Antichrist". Such fervor for
the end times actually began with Joseph Smith and the Mormons in 1830, and
in the same year, with John Nelson Darby and Edward Irving in England, Ireland
and Scotland. Later, Charles Taze Russell and the Watchtower Society of PA
(and the Jehovah's Witnesses), and Ellen G. White of the Seventh-day
Adventists, continue a modern trend of failed Bible prophecy predictions of the
alleged second coming of Christ in 1843 and 1844 as predicted by Baptist
preacher, William Miller. People like Miller are still among us today, with people
like Harold Camping predicting the end of history and all things in this year of
2011 AD, and some people say it's not 2011, but 2012, following "Mayan"
prophecy, (who knows why? that is questionable and pagan), and some say
2015. Sir Isaac Newton predicted the end times to end in 2060.
But all Christ said was, "No man knows the day nor the hour, but only My Father
which is in Heaven". That word of Christ is the truth in all the apocalyptic
ages of uncertainty. In Erie PA Scott Harrington