The short answer: Because the people who said it would are either inept Bible interpreters or false teachers. For why that's the case, listen to the episode - recorded on Sept 22. Description: September 23 has come and gone. The world didn’t end. Jesus didn’t return....
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A Book that Truly Examines New Testament Eschatology
If you think of the Left Behind novels or books by John Hagee as sources that provide insight on the New Testament doctrine of end times and the second coming, you should probably stop reading now. Hat tip to Chris Tilling and his Chrisendom blog for drawing my...
The Armageddon Code: New End Times Book That Actually Isn’t Trying to Merely Pump Sensationalist Speculation
I speak of The Armageddon Code: One Journalist’s Quest for End-Times Answers , by Billy Hallowell. How do I know it isn’t all about sensationalist nonsense? Because I was interviewed at length for it. Billy Hallowell is a writer for The Blaze and one of...
Mike Scheduled for Coast to Coast AM: Discussing Prophecy (Really)
The anomalous nature of me being on Coast to Coast AM discussing this topic will make sense once you hear the date. I’ve blogged here in the past (at length) about how an obsession with prophecy is a waste of time — and I stand by that. So who better to...
Mike on Coast to Coast AM Thursday Night, Just Before the World Ends
The folks at Coast to Coast AM have scheduled me for Thursday, December 20. I’m naturally relieved that I’ll get to be on the show again before the world ends the next day. The topic will be apocalypticism, and so we’ll be chatting about the Mayan...
Rapture or Not? Splitting vs. Joining Slide Video
Finally got around to making a short (35 min) video of my slides that I used in Week 2 of my prophecy series at church. The topic is noted in the title to the post. Since the audio of that session did not record, the video for it was not uploaded. This is a "summary...
Seventy Weeks of Daniel (aka, The Pit of Despair)
Remember the albino from The Princess Bride? The guy who was in charge of the pit of despair? That's who I feel like when asked to talk about the seventy weeks of Daniel. It is a quagmire of ambiguity and obtuseness. And yet so many people hang so much on one...
Camping Crackpottery Survey Update
Contest voting is pretty tight, as the graphic shows. No sign of a clear consensus yet, so I’ll be leaving the survey live for a while yet. Not sure if Harold Camping’s latest nugget of incoherence will sway voters, either. In case you haven’t heard...
Harold Camping, Bible Crackpottery, and a Contest
In honor of today’s blazingly stupid (and failed) rapture prediction by Harold Camping, I thought I’d coin a new term to use for Bible crackpottery. I can’t decide between two alternatives. I was actually hoping he’d be right since I’ve...
Eschatology Spasm
I wanted to post this before year’s end, but things didn’t work out. I plan to append this post to the eschatology archived threads. Came across three articles that (again) point out certain aspects of eschatology that all-too-often assumed rather than...
Christian Fundamentalism, Aliens, UFOs: What About Matthew 24:37-38 and Daniel 2:43?
As promised, in this post I’ll be wrapping up my “Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of Aliens and UFOs” by addressing Matthew 24:37-38 and Daniel 2:43. My last few posts on that thread have directed readers to my Naked Bible series on...
Why an Obsession with Eschatology is a Waste of Time, Part 13
Previous post found here: Seventy Weeks Prophecy in Daniel 9: A Messianic Perspective I want to start this post with something I’d do in class during my teaching days at Christian colleges that I think will make this post — which is about the question of...
Why An Obsession with Eschatology is a Waste of Time, Part 7
The question to address in this post is much simpler than others: Is there any biblical proof that the 70th week of Daniel = the tribulation period? This equation is critical to the pre-trib, premill vide of the rapture. That is, without this equation, that view is...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 5
In the last post , we moved into the fourth element to a Christian fundamentalist view of UFOs and aliens (i.e., that UFOs that are not man-made or other natural phenomena are demonic and alleged alien life forms are demonic). The four elements are: 1. Abductee...
What is “the” Christian View of Aliens? Part 1
The recent publicity spike for the upcoming Christian Symposium on Aliens, to be held this July in Roswell, NM, has prompted me to blog about its content. This symposium focuses on the view that what people think are aliens (mostly from contactee and abductee...