at any minute!", he exclaimed, his voice quivering
with conviction ,
his body trembling in terror and
rapturous joy.
"You will see
the Whore and the Beast and the Seals and the Horsemen and the battle and the death and the fiery lake and the legions of the dead and the terrible judge and the vengeance and the horror and the cup of wrath and the Lamb and the starry headed woman and the victory and the eternal damnation
and you don't have much time left!! You have to get ready now now now now now now now!!"
I looked up from my book
and yawned.
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you've been reading revelations. i would be interested to hear your thoughts (other than the apparent boredom) on the book.
I'm not bored with it, Zach. It's just that I don't see it as coming true, and I think Christians need to reconsider its apparent failure of prophecy. John expected the world to end IN HIS TIME. It didn't. I'm bored with people constantly berating me about the imminent end of the world. I say God wants us to take care of each other and to take care of the home that we have been temporarily given. Let's focus on loving each other NOW and cast aside terrible visions of the Apocalypse.
I totally agree with almost everything you said. I believe that you are 100% correct when you say we need to take care of each other and to love each other. Jesus hmself said that the greatest commandments are to love God, and love people (though it should be noted He means in that order). I haven't personally met anyone so obsessed with the end times as to negelect those commandments, though it seems contradictory to do so if you truly want into God's kingdom.
Everybody back then thought that Jesus was coming again soon. Even today there are libraries worth of books filled with evidence that we are living in the times spoke of in Revelations, but Jesus also said that not even he knows the hour when He will return. only God knows when, so if people are constantly making predictions about when Jesus will return, He can't! But we cannot ignore that Jesus will come again and to ask Christians to reevaluate that aspect of our faith is to undermine the concept of our messiah.
It is important to consider that all things come in Gods time, not ours.
BTW--are you leaning toward a career in the ministry? I thought that you once mentioned you were considering it. (I could be wrong.)
i was considering youth ministry, but I decided against it. My major is History/Secondary Ed, but I also would like to lead worship somewhere.
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