Christians vary on ideas about end-times. Historically, more would say the terminus arrives with Christ’s Second Coming, but popularly, there are all sorts of left-behind scenarios and 666 conspiracies.
I’m with the first group, believing it comports more reasonably with acripture, but it’s not an issue essential to anyone’s Christianity..
Whether the final event is the sudden Parousia (Second Coming), or comes with preliminary prophetic plights, the Bible doesn’t pinpoint dates.
It only says there will be an end, and we must be faithful until then. God’s people then inherit heaven, and the atheists and evil-doers are banished to a hellish, godless eternity (whatever that’s like).
So I don’t worry about the end, and certainly not about Hollywood’s fantasies regarding it.
I don’t take my cues from Pagans, and I frankly don’t mind if it happens tomorrow.
My sins are forgiven; Christ is my svior, God is my father, the Holy Spirit is my companion, and the three are one.
Like the old hymn refrain, “What have I to fear, what have I to dread?” --The REV. BRYAN GRIEM is pastor of Montrose Community Church. Reach him at (818) 249-0483.
