Wrong eschatology..?

Wrong eschatology..?

Q: Does that mean that all these while, in the modern organized "church", we were taught wrongly?

Steven: Yes, I am afraid so. The present day church interpretation of eschatology or end times or last days, do not view or understand it like the way Jesus or the early disciples view and understand it.

Many of the present day views of eschatology were started less 200 years ago. Yes, they were cooked up / invented / thought up, about 200 years ago. It could be after the World War 1 and World War 2, when the world was facing great calamity and troubles, that the issues of the world were used to interpret eschatology (such as rapture, 2nd coming, wrath of God, new heaven and new earth etc. )

Steven: The modern day bible teachers on eschatology have no regard for any of the early bible teachers thousands of years ago, who taught eschatology just as Jesus would have taught it.

Q: What do you mean? Do you have any examples?

Steven: For the last 200 years, just google and see for yourself, how many times that people have predicted the end of the world and the rapture is taking place soon. You will be shocked at the number. almost, every year, numerous false prophets, pastors, and preachers tell their people that Jesus is coming, and the rapture is very soon.

I give you an example that happened in Malaysia. In the year 1999, the national body of protestant christian churches (I will not mention the name here, but I believe many know it already) predicted that there is going to be a computer crash when the clock strikes year 2000. That was where the term Y2K bug was derived. Many many churches believed that. The organization started selling survival kits, rations, food, basic arms, so that in the midst of chaos, the christians can go through the tribulation.

DO you know what?

Q: What?

Steven: Y2K came and gone. There was no tribulation, there was no end time, there was no rapture, there was NOTHING. It was just like another day.. People were buying batteries and storing water in hundreds, afraid that the water dams, electrical grid lines would fail - but zilch...nothing. One pastor warn me, that if I don't prepare for this disaster, I am responsible for all their lives.

I was still pastoring the church then, and i refused to fall for such frantic and consumeristic fever to stock up basic necessities. I refused to announce it in our church. I felt pity for those who sold houses, land and properties because their leaders told them that Jesus was coming again, and there was no more need in these worldly goods.

What made me so angry was the national body did not even utter a word of apology for giving false alarms, and wrong predictions.

THis is just one example.