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The end is nigh!

The end is nigh! 

Evangelical Christians are convinced that the world’s future is foretold in Biblical prophecy - from the Rapture to the Battle of Armageddon and as a result, God fearing Christians have in every generation thought and hoped that their generation would see the Apocalypse. Like diligent and dutiful watchman they have warned of the impending doom by coining the phrase “the end is nigh (near)”.

The movie called “Left Behind” is an example of this. If anyone needed proof that Christianity is not only a death cult but also an apocalyptic cult, rent this movie and judge for yourself. 

Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of the one and only true God and that He is coming to the clouds to rapture (take away) His true church from the soon coming Apocalypse. 

Well if you wake up tomorrow and millions of people have disappeared from the earth, at least you will know that it happened and you have been left behind.

Is there really going to be a biblical Apocalypse? Well of course not, but evangelical Christians think there is and that is dangerous. The faithful are well versed (brainwashed) in teaching on the pre-mid-post tribulation Rapture and the Seven Year Great Tribulation and the one thousand years (millennium) of peace to follow. 

Well why not? Most people are fascinated with predictions of the future. There is a lot of money to be made by evangelists, preachers and others who have charts and diagrams to explain all the end time events. 

Thinking that Christianity and Israel are somehow tied together in God’s will they align themselves with Israel the chosen nation of God? They feel a God given right and responsibility to support Israel no matter what. So when peace is disturbed in Israel they clamour you see “the end is nigh”, the Anti-Christ is on his way. 

When things do not happen you can be sure that they would like to cause them to happen to fulfil prophecy. Herein lays the danger especially if/when you have a Christian fundamentalist in power in the USA who believes all this nonsense. 

The only reason Christians care at all about supporting Israel is to score brownie points with the God of Israel and also to hopefully trigger end time events. They would like to create the situation necessary for the events of Revelations to occur, and thereby bring in the second coming of Jesus so that they can go to heaven and live in eternal bliss. The destruction and wholesale death that is supposedly going to occur from such an event is not there concern. 

Thank goodness today we can say that the end is no longer nigh as prophesied in the Bible. How do we know this, because according to the prediction of Jesus, he is absent without leave? 

The Bible tells us in, Matthew 16:27-28, Mark 9:1 and Matthew 24:33-34 two thousand years ago, that Jesus would return in his generation. He was supposed to have returned physically within their lifetime and set up his earthly kingdom. The apostles taught this (James 5:7-8, 1 Peter 4:7, Revelation 22:12), with Paul even denigrating marriage because the end is nigh (1 Corinthians 7:25-31). 

The trouble was that with each year that passed, Christians got more desperate. But as history has shown with apocalyptic cults and numerous failed Rapture predictions, most Christian believers don’t lose faith when the physical return of Jesus fails to occur – they just find a way to rationalise, and push it into the nebulous future. 

A more rational explanation of why Jesus failed to honour his own prediction is that he is still in the grave and could not rise again like he said he would. 

Therefore the failed apocalyptic prophecies in the NT reveal that Christianity has to be a fraud, no matter how Christians try to deny it, Jesus said he would physically (not spiritually) come back in his generation and did not. 

Christians are escapists, plain and simple. If the world they live in is not to their liking (hard times, famine, death, pestilence, war, earthquakes, tsunamis, crime, wine, drugs, sex, rock and roll etc) they hope to escape it and be with Jesus –  fervently praying “come today please dear Lord Jesus, come quickly.” 

That's escapist theology; certainly not something that looks forward to societal and environmental improvement - for if things get better it means Jesus may not come as soon as they hope. If Jesus is coming soon there is nothing to be done but wait for him to come or hasten his long delayed return. 

If you believe you'll fly off naked to meet with Jesus in the air at the Rapture event, which can occur any moment, why bother getting an education, building a business, saving and investing your money or otherwise planning for a secular future you don't expect to see. 

So let me make a prediction. I predict these kinds of doomsday predictions will always be wrong. That’s right - always. The end is not nigh anymore, it was nigh during the middle ages, but not anymore and so far my prediction has the weight of evidence for it.

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