No Rapture Coming

Many of you have heard the name, Brian McLaren. He is an author and pastor and also a leader of the emerging church movement. It appears that Mr. McLaren has a drastically different idea of what biblical prophesy says....which leads him to a VERY different world view and biblical view than most readers of this blog would understand.

Check out what McLaren has to say about people who believe as we do;

2. The need to confront the terrible, deadly, distorted, yet popular theologies associated with Christian Zionism and deterministic dispensationalism. These systems of belief — so common among my fellow evangelical Christians — too often lead people to act as if Jewish people have God-given rights but Palestinians do not. They use a discredited hermeneutic (way of interpreting the Bible) to imply that God shows favoritism — that God is concerned for justice for one group of people and not for others. They create bigotry and prejudice against Muslims in general … and in particular against Palestinians, many of whom are Muslim but many of whom are Christian too. These doctrinal formulations often use a bogus end-of-the-world scenario to create a kind of death-wish for World War III, which — unless it is confronted more robustly by the rest of us — could too easily create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It seems that McLaren is advocating confronting Christians like us who believe that the Jews are part of God's eternal plan or believe Peter when he said the earth and the heavens will be destroyed by fire.

Read the full article here and see if you can decipher the world view of McLaren and how it may drastically differ from yours; http://blog.sojo.net/2009/04/16/four-points-toward-peace-in-the-middle-east/

Obviously, McLaren does NOT believe that Christ is going to come and take his bride before the earth falls into great turmoil. It seems that McLaren may believe we are supposed to make this world a fantastic place....full of justice, fairness, peace, recycling, and carbon free emissions....and only then will Christ come back to reward us for the great job we did in restoring and caring for planet earth.

This understanding pretty much stands in DIRECT CONTRAST to what most watchers would understand is coming. Personally, I would separate from a brother like this as I would have serious doubts he would cover my back in the spiritual battle that is currently raging....probably because he wouldn't even recognize that we are in a battle.