We are living in the “last days”?
I hear this all the time out of pulpits , prayers, and conversations, but have we ever asked,”the last days of what”? Our problem in the Western church is that we are reading a 1st century book through a 21st century lens and so we assume it is talking about OUR days, or the end of time, or the World, which is a myth because the word “World” translated in the KJV is age. Jesus and the apostles were talking about an END to an age and not the World, for the World is without end, and they were speaking of the last days of the Judaic sacrificial law system and the temple in Jerusalem. Jesus was not warning THEM to look for something in THEIR generation that had nothing to do with them, but was for people 2,000 years in the future. Paul did not warn the church at Thessalonica to watch for and guard against the great apostasy or falling away of the church to tease them, because actually it had nothing to do with them, but was for us in 2016. Most of this is simply common sense if we would just think it through, we are to interpret what it first meant to them, then how it is applicable to us, and that is simply proper hermeneutics and interpretation of scripture. The last days are the “past days” they are not in our future but in our past, so please stop being in fear about computer chips, beasts, anti-christs, tribulation, and the sky falling. #enoughchickenlittletheology #Hehasnotgivenusaspiritoffear
Jamie Englehart