Gary continues his review of “Will the World End in 2012?” by Raymond C. Hundley. In this segment Gary takes a closer look at Dr. Hundley’s interpretation of prophecies from Zephaniah and Joel in the Old Testament.
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Once a person honestly reads his Bible and prayerfully considers what is being said, there is no honest way to find agreement with the mainstream eschatology of the church today. Basic, simple principles of grammar and hermeneutics dictate that when Christ said "this generation shall not pass away until these things occur" and "some standing here shall not taste death until they see the son of man coming in His Kingdom"… he meant it. In Revelation "even those who pierced him" will be alive during the fulfillment of prophetic "end times".
Further, are we really being asked to believe that the Israel created by the U.N. is the Israel of scripture when we know that those who do not believe (Jews are certainly in this group, believing perhaps in the father but rejecting His Son) are cut off the vine, and the gentiles grafted on by their faith? If they are cut off the vine, how are they "God's chosen people"? Is it not obvious that when Rome crushed satan under their feet, that satan (the adversary) was the Jewish establishment that crucified the Lord and rejected his teaching? The destruction of the temple and elimination of all geneology forever destroyed any attempts to prove one is a decendent of Abraham… and Christ's perfect sacrifice destroyed any need to do so! There is no special position for citizens of Israel today any more than there is any other group of people!
It is obvious that scripture was written FOR all of us, but written TO none of us. The letters to the Romans, Thessalonians, etc are addressed to them in Holy Scripture because the Spirit of God needs us to know who the audience for His divine Word was! To think everything in scripture was written TO us… is to be expecting Timothy to arrive at our door any day, because Paul's letter told us to expect him! How absurd!
Futurist eschatology has two purposes: create legions of Christians who will support anything and everything the nation of Israel does, no matter how sinister, and to mute the political impact of Christians as they choose to wait for rapture rather than resist the evil of this world.
To understand the grammar of scripture, one must learn grammar; thoroughly. Audience relevance is a good, simple, first step for Christians who may attend church every week, but still know virtually nothing about scripture, to BEGIN the process of "eating the meat"… graduating from spiritual milk to become mature, adults in the Body of Christ… able to understand more fully what it is the Lord wants us to know!