Christendom and Bible Prophecy Teachers are Dead Wrong!
By Kevin A. Lehmann on in Christian Theology, Politics
As a nation our Christian faith is tenuous at best. If ever put to the test: Worship Allah or Die as a Martyr for Christ, I believe most luke-warm Christians would run for the mosques faster than Usain Bolt can run a hundred meters. At the alarming rate that mosques are now being built on our own soil, coupled with the massive decline of Christian churches (that’s a good thing but for the wrong reasons), we have become an apostate nation. There are more people worshipping Allah on US soil than the entire denomination of the Assemblies of God church, and radical Islam is growing at an alarming rate right here in the United States of America.
Contrary to what some evangelical Christians are claiming, Christianity and Islam are not sister faiths by any stretch of the imagination. One only needs to look to the Quran to see that Muhammad, the Founder of Islam, exhorted his followers to either convert or kill the Infidels (Christians and Jews), end of story. Just read Surah 9:5 and 5:33 in the Quran. Don’t take too much comfort in the fact that only a small percentage of radical Islamics are waging jihad (holy war) on the Infidels. That small percentage is in the millions and growing faster than a body builder on steroids.
Here is what’s even more frightening, Islamic militants are the literal followers of Islam! They’re following their bible to the letter of the law. And they’re constantly admonishing their peaceful Islamic brothers to wake up and heed the call! Thank God for the common bond Christians and Muslims do have. Like the majority of Christians, most Muslims don’t read their entire Quran.
Personally, I don’t find too much solace in that. The majority of Muslims are being taught a progressive revelation of peace through a principle called “Nasikh”. But if their God Allah and their Quran are both the one true God and the one true bible of the world, then what Allah wrote is absolute truth! There would be no need for progressive revelation. I find about as much peace in “Nasikh” as I do in progressive dispensationalism of commercial Christianity. All the revelation we need has already been written in the YHWH inspired, history proving, prophecy fulfilling, martyr causing, time tested, infallible and inerrant word of God (or at least the original autographed scrolls).
Don’t make well-meaning but uninformed, high profile, doctrinally ignorant Christian celebrities who claim that we are the “terminal generation on the edge of the apocalypse” your source of knowledge. Read your Bible! There is nothing new to reveal that God hasn’t already revealed to us through his living word. Only make sure you understand biblical figures of speech and have a basic understanding of biblical hermeneutics and proper exegesis or you’ll read Matthew, 2nd Peter:3, and the book of Revelation and swear up and down that the physical heavens and earth are coming to an end at any moment. Not only is the earth not going to be destroyed, it will endure forever.
As for our test of faith, it’s easy to claim victory in Christ under a democratic republic. We’re the only nation who’s Christian faith has not been put to the ultimate test. We haven’t even begun to endure tribulation like the “Great Tribulation” of the first century, or like that of modern day Christians in other parts of the world that don’t have the protection of freedom of speech, or separation of church and state and a mighty military to enforce it.
Try telling Christians who are being maimed, murdered, and imprisoned for their faith in third world countries that they’re going to be so called “raptured” prior to the great tribulation. The “Great Tribulation” happened in the first century exactly when Christ said it would. But as believers we will always endure personal tribulations–every generation of believers, from the first century on. As a nation however, we’re racing toward the title of a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah and defying God’s judgment every step of the way. We’re self righteous and spoiled. We have long since crossed that line between confidence and arrogance. Confidence is striving to know it all, arrogance is proclaiming to know it all.
Christian Americans as a whole are of the false pretense that the “Great Tribulation” the Bible speaks of in Matthew is in our immediate future, so they buy into the dispensational pre-millennial view of the end times–proclaiming our “rapture” prior to all hell breaking loose! They will allegedly be indulging in the marriage supper with the Lamb as the angels blow the seven trumpets of Revelation and usher in the second half of Daniel’s seventieth week and Jacob’s time of trouble. They will allegedly watch in shock and awe at the ensuing chaos of God’s righteous judgement, indignation, and wrath upon those that weren’t “saved” and the grand finale of it all, the Battle of Armegeddon.
With all due respect to those academically educated theologians, apologists and evangelists who have bought into pre-millenniel dispensational ideology (Dallas Theological Seminary) and promulgate an impending rapture of Christians into heaven and an imminent seven year tribulation period followed by the culminating Battle of Armageddon, You Are Wrong . . . Dead Wrong!
That’s precisely what our current enemy (Islamic militants and Jihad terrorists) is banking on–a predominantly Christian nation erroneously believing its citizens will be supernaturally swept up into the heavens and not have to engage in this war of capitulation to the moon god of Mecca, otherwise known as Allah. For high profile Christian celebrities to ignorantly and erroneously propagate a modern day pre-tribulation rapture theory in the midst of the greatest threat we have faced since Hitler’s radical regime, speaks not only to the cowardice of the American people as a whole in the eyes of the Muslim world, but to the ignorance and arrogance of modern day Christian Americans. It also makes a mockery of the historical and grammatical interpretation of scripture, not to mention a complete disregard for audience relevance and the past fulfillment of Bible prophecy.
The pre-tribulation rapture theory is less than two-hundred years old. It was birthed from the vision of a sixteen year old Scottish girl named Margaret MacDonald in 1830 who claimed to have received visions that a select group of Christians would be caught up to meet Christ in the air (her interpretation of Revelation chapter 2) prior to the reign of a future Anti-Christ. It was then popularized by John Darby of the Plymouth Brethren Group in England. He in turn coined it “New Doctrine” and he heavily influenced C.I. Scofield, the American who wrote the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. Scofield’s prophetic annotations have been the primary source of study for the majority of modern day evangelists who propagate a pre-tribulation rapture message. Sure, as Americans we would love to believe that we’re above the fray and won’t have to suffer through a world domination war. Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth. See my extensive article Jesus Christ Has Already Returned!
As citizens gather to protest the building of a thirteen story Islamic mosque just 600 feet away from Ground Zero, I implore all Christian Americans to educate themselves not only on Sharia Law, but Bible prophecy and whether or not today’s generation of Christian celebrity superstars are in fact disseminating truth by promulgating an impending escape from the earth and all of its chaos–or leading the sheep to the slaughter house for lack of real knowledge of biblical hermeneutics, proper exegetics, bible prophecy, and world and church history.
For a biblically and historically supported alternative view of Bible prophecy, please read my article Jesus Christ Has Already Returned! with an open mind and an open Bible.
God help the United States of America, and especially high profile Christians in leadership positions.
Escape the Ruse of Religion!
Kevin A. Lehmann
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2 Comment(s)
By Gary Goodworth on May 6, 2012 | Reply
Although I do not necessarily agree with all of your viewpoints, I feel you are right on concerning Islam. Looking at the current situation in the Mideast, it seems that Ezekiel Chapter 38 and 39 are about to be fulfilled.
By Kevin A. Lehmann on May 7, 2012 | Reply
Ezekiel 38 & 39 were already fulfilled