[topcat54]

"This is because current events, not Scripture, serve as their interpretive grid."

"Now that the former Soviet Union no longer has super power status, a new prophetic theory had to be invented to fit current events."

"Now that Iran is threatening Israel again, prophetic publishers are looking for the next prophetic blockbuster to take advantage of the always gullible Christian market."

[topcat54]

Reformed Eschatology Ping List (REPL)

[TomSmedley]

The only winners in the Armageddon game are the authors who tell us it’s near and the publishers who print their books by the truck load. The losers are the integrity of God’s Word and the poor souls who pin their hopes on prophetic speculations passed off as certainties that are always said to be near.

Well, dear old Hal Lindsey gets to recyle his books and his wives as each ages out. He's on wife number four at the moment, and who knows how many times he'd "updated" The Late Great Planet Earth ? New names, fresh covers, life is good if you are on the profit-making end of the doomsaying business!

[aft_lizard]

In 1974, Thomas S. McCall and the late Zola Levitt wrote The Coming Russian Invasion in which they stated that “the Armageddon conflict grows out of the Russian invasion of Israel.” Now that the former Soviet Union no longer has super power status, a new prophetic theory had to be invented to fit current events.>>>>

Does the author of this article think because the USSR is no more that Russia is no longer a threat? I am not really into eschatology, but if we take the premise that Gog and Magog will invade Israel, then thats what it says it doesnt say unless the USSR is no more or unless this or that.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Lotsa gold in the mines of Prophecy.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Can't happen too soon for me. Especially since our country has been sold out, and our Congressional leaders are such excellent examples of greed gone wild...

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I bought "Myths, Lies and Half-truths." It's a great book.

Christ reigns today.

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." -- John 16:33

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Events in Israel are viewed by millions of evangelicals as a sure sign that the rapture is near. ***

Didn't they say that in 1967?
1973? 1988? and now?

People, OPEN YOUR EYES! God alone knows when the END TIMES will come, not some "prophecy" hack!

[PetroniusMaximus]

This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation."

The existence of the State of Israel is proof enough for me that we are in the last days - though I will decline from setting a timetable.

[ladyinred]

I do not believe in a pre trib rapture, but I do believe Jesus will return again someday. If it isn't soon, there will be little left for Him to return to.

[Alex Murphy]

From that most reliable of Christian news sources, The Lark...

Readers show no limit to tolerance of end times books

NEW YORK - Readers gobbled down millions of end times books last year, and there seems to be no end to their appetite. Publishers now plan no fewer than 2,000 new fiction titles set in the end times, including the widely anticipated children's title, "Daddy, When's the Rapture?"
"We don't see a limit to the popularity of the subject, so we'll stay on course," said one publisher. "Our marketing plan calls for us to put out Revelation-based books until people start vomiting them up."

[Dajjal]

Amillennial bumpus ad summum