Yeah, I don't really put much stock in it myself. In fact I don't know where some of these crazy ideas originate, certainly not in the Bible. No offence to any Evangelicals out there, but I question some of the end times stuff, at least the stuff that to me seems to have been extrapolated from some pretty vague Biblical references. As long as you have faith in Him, you don't really need to concern yourself with some of the other stuff.
No offence to any Evangelicals out there, but I question some of the end times stuff, at least the stuff that to me seems to have been extrapolated from some pretty vague Biblical references.
The Tim LaHaye, Hal Lindsay Scofield Bible, pull the trigger on 7 years of down to the minute tribulational scheduling model is not by any means universally held among evangelicals. The badmouthing of "replacement theology" is part of one side of an in-house debate. Their model requires them to see Israel as a seperate people of God.
In fact I don't know where some of these crazy ideas originate, certainly not in the Bible.
Where they came from is pretty well documented. See the last couple chapters of Iain H. Murray's The Puritan Hope for a discussion of the rise of modern premillenial eschatology.
As long as you have faith in Him, you don't really need to concern yourself with some of the other stuff.
Disagree. You do need to think about it and be aware of the issues, as part of a defense againse deception.
Eschatology, however, is not at the top of the list of things I'd check to evaluate someone's orthodoxy -- Christology and soteriology are. Who is this Jesus, why did he come, what did he do, how do I respond? Not that eschatology doesn't enter in to the equation -- there are eschatological views that are, IMHO, beyond the pale. For instance, my understanding is that adherents of "full preterism" (all NT prophecy was fulfilled when Jerusalem fell) deny the physical ressurection of the body and bodily return of Jesus.