Mar 20, 2020 10:57 PM
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-i...r-BB11jYQm
EXCERPT: . . . The worldwide upheaval caused by the fast-spreading novel coronavirus pandemic has many people reaching for their Bibles, and some starting to wonder: Could this be a sign of the apocalypse? [...] not if you ask Christian writers and pastors who have spent years focusing their message on the Book of Revelation — the New Testament’s final book. ... Most of these Revelation-focused prophesiers don’t see coronavirus as heralding the Second Coming and the end of life on Earth as we know it.
“If a person were just completely ignorant about what the Bible says about the End Times, they may think this right now: This is it,” said Jeff Kinley, a writer of books on biblical prophecy who lives in Harrison, Ark.
Kinley said he understands why Americans might see this time of fast-encroaching disease, isolation from loved ones and crashing stock markets as apocalyptic. Americans are primed to believe the end of the world might arrive any day now. In 2010, 41 percent told Pew Research Center that they expected Jesus to return by 2050.
Kinley pointed to Revelation 6:8, which forecasts deaths all over the globe “by sword, famine and plague,” and Jesus’ words about the events before the end times in Luke 21:11: “There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.”
“I think he’s referring to a future time,” Kinley said. “I don’t think this is an actual fulfillment of that.” The Bible is very specific about what will happen before the End Times, Kinley says, and those events haven’t all unfolded yet... (MORE - details)
EXCERPT: . . . The worldwide upheaval caused by the fast-spreading novel coronavirus pandemic has many people reaching for their Bibles, and some starting to wonder: Could this be a sign of the apocalypse? [...] not if you ask Christian writers and pastors who have spent years focusing their message on the Book of Revelation — the New Testament’s final book. ... Most of these Revelation-focused prophesiers don’t see coronavirus as heralding the Second Coming and the end of life on Earth as we know it.
“If a person were just completely ignorant about what the Bible says about the End Times, they may think this right now: This is it,” said Jeff Kinley, a writer of books on biblical prophecy who lives in Harrison, Ark.
Kinley said he understands why Americans might see this time of fast-encroaching disease, isolation from loved ones and crashing stock markets as apocalyptic. Americans are primed to believe the end of the world might arrive any day now. In 2010, 41 percent told Pew Research Center that they expected Jesus to return by 2050.
Kinley pointed to Revelation 6:8, which forecasts deaths all over the globe “by sword, famine and plague,” and Jesus’ words about the events before the end times in Luke 21:11: “There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.”
“I think he’s referring to a future time,” Kinley said. “I don’t think this is an actual fulfillment of that.” The Bible is very specific about what will happen before the End Times, Kinley says, and those events haven’t all unfolded yet... (MORE - details)
