Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times - Conscious Evolution TV

obin-bobin4When Do Christians Thinkthe End Times WillHappen?A Comparative Theologies Discussionof the Second ComingStanley J. Grenz“When will this happen?” asked the astonished disciples inresponse to Jesus’ prediction that the beautiful temple inJerusalem would one day be destroyed. Convinced that such acatastrophic event would by necessity mark the end of the worldas they knew it, they added, “and what will be the sign of yourcoming and of the end of the age?” (Matt. 24:3 NewInternational Version). According to Matthew’s narrative, whatfollowed was Jesus’ lengthy depiction of the end times, which isoften termed the Mount Olivet discourse because of the locationwhere the gospel writer places it. The disciples’ query has beenraised by Christians at nearly every turn in church history.Indeed, concern for this perennial question—“When will thishappen?”—accounts in part for the popularity of the LeftBehind series. In these books, Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkinspresent in fictional form one widely propagated interpretationrobin-bobin