Any article purporting to be about "the New Testament as it's meant to be read," (i.e., no rapture); and which at the same time basically ignores the Scriptural promises concerning the Second Coming ... well, that is a pretty dismal excuse for Biblical exigeses.
Adams evidently has had it with "rapturists," and has allowed that to cloud his rational faculties. I'm not a "rapturist" by any stretch ... but one doesn't need to be, to understand that Adams is clearly full of crap on this.
Actually, Mike Adams is a sociology prof down at UNC Wilmington. He is a believer, and a pretty sharp guy, and a “no time for fools” person. He has done some pretty funny nuking of liberal shibboleths there and has enraged one gender bender in the UNC system enough so that s/he tried to have him fired. He became a Christian late in life from a bitter atheist. He is NOT discounting the idea of the Second Coming. It seems he is a preterist, and a hard core one, dating Revelation from 65 AD. While I have some degree of sympathy with his frustration with the dispensational camp, I don’t buy that kind of extreme preterist position on Revelation. You don’t have to be a preterist to see the folly of the dispensational timeline.
Any article purporting to be about "the New Testament as it's meant to be read," (i.e., no rapture); and which at the same time basically ignores the Scriptural promises concerning the Second Coming ... well, that is a pretty dismal excuse for Biblical exigeses.
The novelty, the "new kid on the block," is the notion of a "rapture" broken out from the main event, and taking place 3.5 or 7 or n years before the final resurrection. Mike Adams confesses the Biblical, historical, and creedal Christian faith in this regard.