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a lot this week in the office here we

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were talking about revelation and has

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booked up definitely a revelation we're

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talking eschatology and I just wondered

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what your view was of the chronology of

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the rapture and I believe it's all gonna

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happen ya know not to dodge your

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question I'm in historic

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premillennialists I believe the most

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natural interpretation of scriptures the

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millennium is an historical event I

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think again it's also tied to the grand

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story of the Bible and that you have

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Christ reigning with the Saints you know

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for that thousand years which is a

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period of time in which the rightness of

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his reign exists of judgment upon the

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wrongness of human rule and misrule I

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don't buy into I'm not a

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dispensationalists so I have a hard time

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imagining two different comings and I

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think the Bible is pretty clear about

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warning the church about how to live in

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a time of tribulation so I don't believe

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the churches out of is taken away

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now I'm not an anti dispensationalist

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because I'm able to teach with them

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witness with them the missions with them

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and I hire them and so it's just a

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matter of trying to figure out exactly

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how that's going to work we are not

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given and Jesus himself says for

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evidently God's own purposes we are not

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given the answers to some of these

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things that that we might want to lie

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out you know the Bible does have a chart

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and there's certain things that if we

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were kind of editing the Bible we might

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wish we're in there and one of them

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would be a timeline and a chart same way

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the will of God we're not given you know

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for our lives a chart instead we've got

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to be faithful in every minute believing

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that if we're faithful in the minute

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that God will lead us in the right way

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the next lastly we have to look at

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eschatology we are drawn towards the end

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because we're yearning for it the most

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important thing about biblical

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eschatology is that we look at that the

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world around us we say this is wrong it

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has to be fixed and we're not up to

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fixing our justice is so imperfect

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CIND we have tumors we have death you

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know everything all of creation is

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groaning for a completion the judgment

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the fulfillment and we should be

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yearning for that but as we're hearing

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for it day by day

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you know we're gonna have to watch the

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signs of the times but the church hasn't

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been really adept at this I mean one of

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the problems is we have the intellectual

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embarrassment of the Church of finding

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that there are people in the 19th

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century they sold everything it sat on

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top of the rooftops wearing white robes

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believing that Jesus was coming the

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Miller writes on a specific day in the

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19th century that didn't happen we've

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got popular Christian authors riding

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today who are still alive and still

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writing who wrote books saying Jesus is

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coming back in 1974 evidently not so

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they're still writing books that's the

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thing that gets me I think if I wrote a

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book is that Jesus coming in 1974 he

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didn't come I don't think I've read a

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book in 1975 but nonetheless I think we

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have a good intellectual warning here

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against trying to be more specific than

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the scripture is and instead trust and

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they look forward but I do believe that

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all those events are going to take place

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and they're gonna take place in a way

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then in retrospect we're gonna be able

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to look at it and say well now that

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makes sense I see how that comes

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together and that's the way it is for

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our lives right and then we look

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backward is either look God if I if I

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ask you right now what's the will of God

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for you a year from now you're not going

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to know you can think there's a

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trajectory you're being called to in

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faithfulness but in reality we only know

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God's will in terms of our appreciation

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for it knowledge of it looking backwards

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and at the end of history

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we're going to look back and say oh

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that's what that was and writing that in

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the midst we just better be found

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faithful Jesus actually speaks to that

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with a parable of the of the bridesmaids

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and

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their lamps or candles you know justjust

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you better be found being being ready

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looking forward to it there's a wedding

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coming but we don't know exactly when

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it's going to be here and so we better

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be trimming our wicks as it says they're

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just to make sure that we are ready to

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be given time