{"id":1128,"date":"2025-07-20T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:59:36","slug":"how-to-avoid-being-an-end-time-junkie-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/how-to-avoid-being-an-end-time-junkie-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Avoid Being an End Time Junkie &#8211; Part 4"},"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\u2019 main future facing dialogue on the End Times in Matthew 24-25 and the Book of Revelation.<\/p>\n<h2>Part Four<\/h2>\n<p>In this episode, I consider specifically some of the features and contours of the Book of Revelation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Avoid Being an End Time Junkie - Part 4\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1099177657?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>00:00:00 The Book of Revelation<br \/>\n00:00:40 A plenary genitive: Jesus giving a revelation of Himself<br \/>\n00:02:46 The structure of the book<br \/>\n00:03:17 The &#8220;silent period&#8221;<br \/>\n00:03:52 The apocalyptic genre<br \/>\n00:04:32 The symbolic genre<br \/>\n00:05:10 Linguistic solicisms<br \/>\n00:06:00 The relationship to the gospel of John<br \/>\n00:07:40 Higher and lower criticism<br \/>\n00:09:00 Demythologising scripture<br \/>\n00:09:36 The danger of plain text interpretation<br \/>\n00:12:50 Sense and referent<br \/>\n00:13:40 Greek letters<br \/>\n00:14:00 The Jewish section, the Final Judgment<br \/>\n00:14:48 Chapter 4, the Rapture?<br \/>\n00:15:00 The Church Age<br \/>\n00:15:26 The Jewish section<br \/>\n00:15:44 The judgment of Babylon<br \/>\n00:16:00 The Final Judgment<br \/>\n00:17:15 The character of Babylon<br \/>\n00:19:00 The recapitulation problem<br \/>\n00:20:29 The challenge of the plain sense<br \/>\n00:21:24 The assumption of Premillenialism<br \/>\n00:22:06 The effects of Premillennialism<br \/>\n00:22:37 Viewing the end of Revelation as fufilment of the dominion mandate<br \/>\n00:23:53 What does Scripture say as a whole?<br \/>\n00:25:20 Summary &#8211; being the best in your vocation<br \/>\n00:30:00 Dominion Theology:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/dominion-theology-its-origin-development-and-place-in-christian-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/dominion-theology-its-origin-development-and-place-in-christian-thinking\/<\/a><\/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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