2000 years of last days a quick guide to end-times fever
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He said the God of the Christians helped him
win.
So being a Christian was fine.
Better than fine. . . They
were Bankrolled!
In the late 1100’s Joachim
of Fiore devoted his life to
studying
The Revelation of John.
He had a chart!
He told Richard-the-Lion-
Hearted that
a 3rd Crusade was a great idea.
Jesus might come back sooner
if the Crusaders could just
retake Jerusalem!
Later, Columbus studied the
Bible.
He decided Joachim had been
right.
The Age of the Spirit was
underway.
Jesus was coming back in 1656!
The Puritans went to the New
World too.
It seemed like a good place for
God to live! The New Jerusalem!
Why shouldn’t Jesus move Jerusalem to
America?
Especially if they whipped it into shape first.
Jerusalem
.
Later, spiritual renewal
poured over New England.
When it kept pouring they
called it
The Great Awakening.
If the church would just get busy
the Millennium could arrive in three
years!
Then Jesus would finally come.
Anti-Slavery The Rights of
WomenPrison Reform
Missions
And lots
of good stuff.
Christians got
busy.
They worked
for
Then they discovered John Nelson
Darby,
a former Irish-Anglican priest
with new ideas about the
Second Coming.
He said things wouldn’t keep gettingbetter and better until Jesus came back.
They’d get worse and worse.
But not to worry.
Jesus would come and rapture the
believers out before it got too
bad.
Then bring them back seven years
later
for the good part.
Christians weren’t so sure.
In 1900 years they’d never
heard of
Jesus coming twice in seven
years.
Or a secret-rescue-rapture.
And the way they could show how bad
news like drought
influenza epidemicsthe Titanic sinking
meant Jesus was coming
soon.
By World War II nearly everyone who
expected Jesus
to come again was a Darbyite.
Even though most had never heard of him.
In 1948 when the U.N. created the State of
Israel
they all knew For Sure
that there was only one more generation to
go before
The End.
On that Day,
Jesus will return to bring justice to the whole
world.
He will set to rights all the wrongs of history.
He will transform creation and reign with
love.
Until that Day when
He will wipe every tear from
their eyes, and there will be
no more
death or sorrow
or crying or pain.
Definitions: The Millenniam - the era of peace and justice when Christ will reignThe Tribulation - the era of unrestrained evil under the antichrist The New Jerusalem – the renewed city of God where God’s healing presence will dwell with his peopleThe rapture – when Jesus will snatch believers out of the world to return with them later The antichrist – the dictator at the end of human history who will promise peace but make war and oppose Christ.The second coming – when Jesus arrives to meet believers in the air and establish his reignThe last days – all of history following the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ before the second coming
Picture Credits:
1. Ascension by Steve Erspamer, SM from Clip Art for Year A , published by Liturgy Training
Publications.
2. Earth and moon by Vitaly Smolygin:
http://publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=34457&picture=2&large=1
3. Space galaxy by Dawn Hudson
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=86463&picture=space-galaxy
4. Constantine © Androniques | Dreamstime.com
5. Rainbow by Barb Ver Sluis:
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=3180&picture=enhanced-rainbow
6. Sack of Rome. Karl Bruillov.
http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2011/02/fall-of-rome-when-the-world-was-young/
7. Mitoraj Head Sculpture: Krakow by Jon Berghoff
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/mitoraj-head-sculpture--krakow-jon-berghoff.html
8. Copper moon © David Woods | Dreamstime.com
9. Saint Augustine in His Study by Sandro Botticelli, 1494, Uffizi Gallery (public domain)
10. Candle light by Eloi Khan
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=44977&picture=candle-light
11. Joachim circles: "Liber Figurarum Tav 11" di Beppeveltri - Opera propria. Con licenza CC BY-SA 3.0
tramite Wikimedia Commons - https
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12. "The Douce Apocalypse 21r - Oxford - Bodleian Library" by Unknown - Ingo F. Walther, Norbert Wolf:
Meisterwerke der Buchmalerei. Köln u.a., Taschen 2005, ISBN 3-8228-4747-X; p. 187. Licensed under
Public Domain via Commons -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Douce_Apocalypse_21r_-_Oxford_-_Bodleian_Library.jpg#/
media/File:The_Douce_Apocalypse_21r_-_Oxford_-_Bodleian_Library.jpg
13. Pilgrim Photo © Polygraphus | Dreamstime.com
14. Rapture:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=rapture+christian&view=detailv2&qft=%2bfilterui%3aimagesize
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2A&ajaxhist=0
15. Astronomical Clock in Prague by Rostislav Kralik
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=59628&picture=astronomical-clock&large
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