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The End Times

Any time you start to discuss the end times things get weird fast. Mention the end times at church, work or with your family and you will get flooded with all kinds of theories. You will hear words like tribulation, rapture and prophecy. You might also hear thoughts on the antichrist, blood red moons, the State of Israel, microchips and secretive government programs. In all honesty, discussions about the end times can be exhausting, confusing and overwhelming.  Yet one of the things that I've noticed in having conversations about the end times is that it tends to be governed by our questions. The questions that we bring to the discussion usually dictate the conversations that we have. This is especially true when we bring our questions about the end times to the Bible and demand an answer. Those questions create a kind of lens or point of view that the Bible might not even be interested in answering.  The types of questions that typically swirl around about the end times take ...