Reeks of confirmation bias
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By flugm
Sigh, I hate credentialing myself, but I am a Christian attending a mainline protestant denominational church. We have not discussed eschatology in the past 10 years I’ve attended.
This book is but one viewpoint on eschatology, and for the sake of reading multiple viewpoints on the end times, it is worth a read. But I would also encourage you to study opposing viewpoints as well, including those that posit the end times happen(ed) in the past, present, and future.
This book, however, reeks of a confirmation bias (see the definition on wikipedia). An example of this would be the correlation of blood moon tetrads to events in Israel (founding; six-day war, and what the next one might signal). What is true is that much of the prophecy in the Bible is highly symbolic, and that we do not fully understand it. So there should considerable consternation about attempting to apply a highly symbolic prophecy to present times, as if one would be the next Harold Camping who was discredited on a false prediction of a rapture.
Another underpinning of Mr Evans book is a literalist interpretation on Psalm 90 (and re-emphasized in 2 Peter 3:8-9). For my viewpoint: consider the commonly uttered expression among parents about kids: one moment they are in kindergarten, but you blink, and boom, graduation. This sentiment is much closer to the Psalm than Mr Evans. However, this is his springboard for position that we are approaching the end of a 7000 year era and Jesus’ second coming in imminent. The latter is quite true, but the math used to get there is dubious.
Jesus says in the sermon on the mount (Matthew 6:34) do not worry about tomorrow, but seek the kingdom of God today. If the end times motives (“scares”) you to follow Jesus, please take your faith and set it upon a more solid foundation.
