I am certain that they meant well…
I want to believe that the prophecy teachers of the past meant well… they took the Scripture they knew and imagined a world in which those things could happen…
We believed them…
They were wrong!
The god of this world has used those teachers and teachings to blind the eyes of millions who are now so convinced that they know the truth that they refuse to think… Why would you think when you already know it all?
How could they have understood the world in which we now live? It would have been impossible, had they actually been willing to consider the truth… But even then, the truth was too painful to consider…
They had the Bible. Even then, there was no nation on earth, other than the United States of America, that fit the physical, moral and spiritual description of Babylon given in Revelation chapter eighteen… But the idea that America could be evil, or that its founders might have been evil Master Masons, committed to the ancient pantheon of gods was untenable and impossible to consider…
The idea that God, the God who took Noah through the flood, Daniel through the Lion’s Den, the Three Hebrew Boys through the fire and all Israel through the Babylonian Captivity, would allow us to go through the Tribulation was an evil and nasty thought… No, America would still be a great Christian Nation, and long before any American Christian had to suffer, Jesus would come on a Sunday morning and rapture all of the American Christians out of the service… snatching them from their air conditioned comfort and taking them to Heaven!
That, of course, is not biblical, but how can you sell a book that speaks of God protecting us in and through the Tribulation? No book that even suggested that America was not God’s Special Project, or that George Washington was not a Christian Saint would have sold the first copy!
So they made up a lot of stuff… It is those who believed that stuff the most who are totally blinded to what is really happening.
If you are still a firm believer in the scenarios presented in THE LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH, the LEFT BEHIND series, or any of a thousand other books coming out of that era, you need to honestly pray that God Almighty will remove Satan’s blinders from your eyes and allow you to make real connections between the Scripture and today’s news…
The last thing you want to do is to stumble blindly into the Great Tribulation, still staring at the ceiling of your church every Sunday morning, waiting for Jesus to snatch you up..
PRAY, THINK, PRAY, AND THINK SOME MORE…
THE BARE,UGLY, NASTY AND UNPLEASANT TRUTH IS BETTER THAN THE SWEETEST, HAPPIEST, MOST JOYFUL LIE EVER TOLD..
David…
End Time Thinker 