{"id":1072,"date":"2025-07-08T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2025-07-10T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:30:16","slug":"how-to-avoid-being-an-end-time-junkie-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/how-to-avoid-being-an-end-time-junkie-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Avoid Being an End Time Junkie &#8211; Part 2"},"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 2<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Avoid Being an End Time Junkie - Part 2\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1099161673?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>00:00:00 The Rapture, the &#8220;Great Hope of the Church&#8221;<br \/>\n00:00:30 Israel as the prophetic time clock of Premillennialism<br \/>\n00:01:20 Roger Price&#8217;s contribution to Eschatological thinking<br \/>\n00:03:01 The problem of &#8220;the generation&#8221; &#8211; 1948 + 40 = 1988<br \/>\n00:04:00 The 1967 War and the recovery of Jerusalem &#8211; 1967 + 40 = 2007<br \/>\n00:04:30 &#8220;Left Behind&#8221;<br \/>\n00:05:29 The &#8220;cowards way out&#8221;<br \/>\n00:06:35 2012-2013: the signs of the blood moons<br \/>\n00:07:14 Theologies of &#8220;imminent return&#8221;<br \/>\n00:07:40 Being heavenly minded<br \/>\n00:08:48 The concrete implications of this view<br \/>\n00:09:26 The &#8220;plain sense&#8221; of scripture and the imperatives for Premilennialism<br \/>\n00:11:20 Nero and the accomodation of Constantine<br \/>\n00:12:28 The foundation of Constantinople<br \/>\n00:13:29 The change in Christian theology with the accomodation<br \/>\n00:14:10 &#8220;Imminence&#8221; and its corrolary of cultural indifference<br \/>\n00:15:20 Evangelism and imminence<br \/>\n00:15:49 The emergence of Christian Reconstruction<br \/>\n00:16:30 The Founding of WTS, Machen and Van Til<br \/>\n00:17:00 Van Til&#8217;s distinctive apologetic<br \/>\n00:17:40 The sociological programme of Rushdoony<br \/>\n00:18:10 The return to the Westminster Confession<br \/>\n00:19:00 Christian Reconstruction as postmillennial<br \/>\n00:20:00 The decay of ammillenialism into cultural indifference<br \/>\n00:21:39 Nations cannot be &#8220;saved&#8221; but cultural regeneration is possible<br \/>\n00:23:00 The Gospel Reformers<br \/>\n00:23:32 The Parable of the Leaven<br \/>\n00:24:45 Prophecies and the Gulf Wars<br \/>\n00:25:20 The failure of the promise of Iraq<br \/>\n00:27:00 Postmillennialism as the antidote to End Time circus<br \/>\n00:28:14 The three questions asked of Jesus in Matt 24<br \/>\n00:31:49 The place of the Book of Revelation<br \/>\n00:32:20 Restating the proper eschatological perspective<\/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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