How would we live if God truly told us the day " the world was going to end"? Maybe there is a reason God does not want us to know ? People are always searching for codes, mathematical equations or signs in their Alphabets cereal for Jesus's return. Jesus said only father knows the day and the hour. Jesus was not going to tell the men on earth he was closet too for those three years ,who would eventually die for him, why would he tell us? Could we handle that kind of information?
When Jesus was about to leave Earth his apostles who still did not understand everything ask Acts16 "Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
They had missed the point that Jesus was not going to establish a physical Kingdom on Earth and overthrow the Romans ( which the Messiah according to Jews was suppose to do.)I think many people are still looking into the sky or waiting for a physical kingdom.
Many people have missed the point its not about taking Revelation one way or the other Interpreting the signs that will reveal when Jesus return or even being afraid. For the Kingdom of God is here and now. People are so afraid of missing Jesus second return but what about missing the Jesus on the side of the road or in front of them ?
I have simplified my view of Eschatology: Jesus will come back,Live for the Kingdom here , now and the future. It does not matter if there is a "rapture" or interpretations of when the end of the world happens.
I hope that I will be a "virgin with lamp oil" waiting for the bridegroom return but I think our focus must always be finding Jesus and the Kingdom here on earth first and in the hearts of those who do not know they have freedom and a community that accepts them.
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