{"id":1074,"date":"2025-07-08T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2025-07-10T21:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:55:18","slug":"how-to-avoid-being-an-end-time-junkie-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/how-to-avoid-being-an-end-time-junkie-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Avoid Being an End Time Junkie &#8211; Part 3"},"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<p>In this third episode, I look at Matthew 24 and 25 in detail.<\/p>\n<h2>Part 3<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Avoid Being an End Time Junkie - Part 3\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1099167678?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 rationale for the series &#8211; thermonuclear destruction<br \/>\n00:01:26 C. S. Lewis &#8211; Present Concerns and the 20th century<br \/>\n00:03:23 Nuclear destruction is inevitable and newspaper exegesis<br \/>\n00:04:03 Dispensationalism as the adulterated form of premillennialism<br \/>\n00:05:33 Redeeming the whole of culture<br \/>\n00:06:37 Defending Postmillennialism<br \/>\n00:07:52 Jesus&#8217; response in Matthew 25 to Matthew 24<br \/>\n00:08:21 The problem of imminence for the Thessalonian believers<br \/>\n00:09:00 &#8220;If you do not work, you do not eat&#8221;<br \/>\n00:09:46 Responding to evil around you<br \/>\n00:11:16 Considering Matthew 24<br \/>\n00:12:15 The Temple as the centre of the Jewish nation<br \/>\n00:13:42 &#8220;One stone will not be left on another&#8221;<br \/>\n00:15:10 The proper mental attitude &#8211; do not be alarmed<br \/>\n00:17:44 The love of many will grow cold<br \/>\n00:18:00 The example of the Reformation<br \/>\n00:20:20 &#8220;Sozo&#8221; and &#8220;Shalom&#8221; &#8211; the power of salvation<br \/>\n00:21:26 The person who endures to the End will be saved<br \/>\n00:21:56 Mad Max and the riots of LA<br \/>\n00:22:40 The Gospel will never not be preached<br \/>\n00:23:30 A nation being saved by Reformation<br \/>\n00:24:00 The scientific revolution after the Reformation<br \/>\n00:25:00 The Christian Enlightenment redeeming civilisation from Catholic hegemony<br \/>\n00:26:15 The depravity of the Papal dynasties<br \/>\n00:29:00 Shadows and partial fufilments of prophecy<br \/>\n00:30:45 The future rebirth of the supernatural<br \/>\n00:31:50 The God consciousness of the Elect<br \/>\n00:32:10 We will know when the LORD comes<br \/>\n00:33:00 Will there be a post-apocalyptic wasteland?<br \/>\n00:34:50 The unexpected coming of the LORD<br \/>\n00:35:30 The faithful and wise servants<br \/>\n00:36:00 We are not chattel slaves, we are sons that serve<br \/>\n00:38:00 About the Master&#8217;s business &#8211; reforming culture<br \/>\n00:38:38 The unique function of the institutional church &#8211; evangelism and teaching the individual believer for cultural reformation<br \/>\n00:39:35 Art for Art&#8217;s sake &#8211; not for the sake of Evangelism<br \/>\n00:41:00 The eternal significance of culture in the Logos<br \/>\n00:42:00 The dominion mandate &#8211; not the domination mandate<br \/>\n00:43:16 The parable of the talents<br \/>\n00:44:20 The business of life &#8211; making profit from economy and ecology<br \/>\n00:47:00 The place of Fuller Theological seminary in reforming fundamentalism<br \/>\n00:48:00 Redeeming filthy lucre<br \/>\n00:49:00 Your whole life as a conversation<br \/>\n00:49:40 Becoming intellectually responsible<br \/>\n00:50:30 Overcoming strongholds of the mind by becoming strong in the mind<br \/>\n00:53:10 Against credentialism but beyond zeal without knowledge<br \/>\n00:55:00 The value of study<br \/>\n00:55:30 The ordinary things of life as the antidote to End Time craziness<br \/>\n00:57:00 The insight of Wittgenstein &#8211; living in the real world<br \/>\n01:00:00 Our residence in Heaven is not permanent<br \/>\n01:01:00 Back to Genesis<br \/>\n01:06:28 From Genesis to Revelation<\/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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