{"id":1062,"date":"2025-07-08T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:46:24","slug":"how-to-avoid-being-an-end-time-junkie-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/how-to-avoid-being-an-end-time-junkie-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Avoid Being an End Time Junkie &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video series, I consider how the American strike on Iran in support of Israel has caused a fresh spate of prophetic drug-taking amidst prognostications of Armageddon and WWIII. I look at Rapture Fever, that Jesus failed to return in 1988 and the broad contours of End Time theological perspectives, Jesus&#8217; main future facing dialogue on the End Times in Matthew 24-25 and the Book of Revelation.<\/p>\n<h2>Part 1<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Avoid Being an End Time Junkie - Part 1\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1099157164?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Part 1, I lay out the background to the series with the Iran-Israel conflict, the broad brushes of eschatological perspectives, and some of the most egregious End Times hoaxes relating to date-setting for the return of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>00:00:00 Technical Preamble<br \/>\n00:01:00 Iran and the End Times<br \/>\n00:01:27 The Isolationist Right and WWIII<br \/>\n00:01:45 Armageddon and End of the World Prophecies<br \/>\n00:02:40 Trump&#8217;s rejection of nation building<br \/>\n00:03:00 The nuclear ambition of Iran<br \/>\n00:03:15 Not everyone thinks like the Western liberal<br \/>\n00:03:40 Iran the sponsor of Hezbollah, HAMAS and the Houthis<br \/>\n00:04:05 HAMAS and the UNHCR<br \/>\n00:05:00 &#8220;Globalise the Intifada&#8221;<br \/>\n00:05:41 The joining of the Green (Islamic) and Red (Marxist) revolutionary movement<br \/>\n00:06:16 The cultural relativity of the class struggle<br \/>\n00:07:12 Losing London to Islam<br \/>\n00:07:35 Autonomous zones of Sharia Law<br \/>\n00:08:00 The sin of criticising Islam<br \/>\n00:08:30 The Islamic revolutionary mindset as the imperative for Western preemptive action<br \/>\n00:08:50 Nuclear terrorism<br \/>\n00:09:20 The Big Satan and the Little Satan<br \/>\n00:09:40 The results of mass Moslem migration<br \/>\n00:10:48 The destruction of Israel first, the destruction of the West second<br \/>\n00:11:38 The End of Days<br \/>\n00:11:52 Remembering the 1980s &#8211; Rapture Fever<br \/>\n00:12:37 &#8220;This generation will not pass away&#8221;, 1948 + 40 = 1988<br \/>\n00:13:10 Premillennialism, amillennialism and post-millennialism<br \/>\n00:13:40 The Millennium and the meaning of the term<br \/>\n00:14:50 10x10x10 &#8211; a perfect period<br \/>\n00:15:25 The Postmillennial view &#8211; presenting the Earth to Jesus<br \/>\n00:16:40 Daniel&#8217;s 70th week and the Antichrist<br \/>\n00:17:11 The Rapture as an antitype of Noah&#8217;s Ark<br \/>\n00:19:10 Pre-, post-, and mid- exits<br \/>\n00:19:28 The false Christ &#8211; the Antichrist<br \/>\n00:19:58 The Final Judgment<br \/>\n00:21:00 Israel and Premillennialism &#8211; 1988, the return of Jesus<br \/>\n00:22:00 Hollywood pessimism and Christian optimism<br \/>\n00:23:50 1988 reasons why Jesus will return in 1988<br \/>\n00:24:10 1989 reasons why Jesus will return in 1989<br \/>\n00:24:17 Postscript 1994<br \/>\n00:24:25 So how do we understand the Rapture?<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;prophetic&#8221; books that I mention predicting the return of Jesus in 1988, 1989 and 1994 were:<\/p>\n<p>Whisenant, Edgar C. (1988). 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1988.<br \/>\nWhisenant, Edgar C. (1989). The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1989.<br \/>\nWhisenant, Edgar C. (1993). 23 Reasons Why a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Looks Like it will Occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1993.<br \/>\nWhisenant, Edgar C. (1994). And Now the Earth&#8217;s Destruction by Fire, Nuclear Bomb Fire. Prediction for 1994.<\/p>\n<p><em>Remember, these were not crackpot, minor publications, but millions were disseminated throughout American, and then Western, Christendom!<\/em>  As I mention, perfectly rational, sensible ministries that I would otherwise endorse, have messages with people screaming and crying out in joy that the Rapture will be here in a few weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video series, I consider how the American strike on Iran in support of Israel has caused a fresh spate of prophetic drug-taking amidst prognostications of Armageddon and WWIII. 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