No book in the Bible has been read more, argued over more, or misunderstood more than the Book of Revelation. It sits at the end of the Christian scriptures like a sealed door that everyone wants to open, and for two thousand years people have been trying to force that door with every tool available: … Read more
Imagine the scene that has been described in tens of millions of copies of the Left Behind novels. Planes falling from the sky because pilots have vanished mid-flight. Highways full of driverless cars. Hospitals where surgeons have disappeared from operating theatres. Every Christian in the world suddenly and silently removed from the earth, leaving behind … Read more
Here is a fact that surprises most people who hear it for the first time. The word antichrist appears exactly five times in the entire Bible. Every single one of those appearances is in two short letters written by the Apostle John. Not one of them appears in the Book of Revelation. Not one appears … Read more
Here is a number that tends to stop people cold when they hear it for the first time. In the Bible, references to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ outnumber references to his first coming by eight to one. Scholars who have counted them place the total at around 1,845 individual references spread across both … Read more
What Is Christian Eschatology? If you want to understand why large portions of the Western world have been fascinated, frightened, and occasionally paralyzed by questions about the end of history, you need to understand Christian eschatology. It is, by almost any measure, the most widely discussed, most culturally influential, and most hotly debated end-times tradition … Read more