Episode 17: The End of the World

Published: Oct. 26, 2010, 7:58 p.m.

b'In this episode of the Theopologetics Podcast I interview Dee Dee Warren on the claim made by skeptics of Christianity that Jesus was a false prophet, discussing how a proper biblical understanding of the \\u201cend times\\u201d turns the claim on its head. The interview spanned nearly 2 hours, so I\\u2019ve split it up into two parts. This episode contains the first half of the interview; see episode 18 for the second half.\\n\\nMusic\\n\\nR.E.M., It\\u2019s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), from the Document album, 1987\\n\\nPromoted Resources\\n\\nLigonier Ministries, with Dr. R.C. Sproul\\n\\nSubscribe to the Renewing Your Mind podcast for free\\n\\n\\nThe Preterist Podcast, with Dee Dee Warren.\\n\\nCheck out the episode I guest-hosted, \\u201cKicking Some Left Behind Pt. 5\\u2013Jesus, the Not-So Master Communicator.\\u201d\\nI am also a guest author Dee Dee\\u2019s The Preterist Blog, and she has a ton of eschatological study material available at The Preterist Site.\\n\\n\\nBooks\\n\\nThe Great Tribulation: Past or Future? by Thomas Ice and Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.\\nThe Last Days According to Jesus by R.C. Sproul\\nThe Apocalypse Code by Hank Hannegraaff\\n\\n\\n\\nTerminology\\n\\nEschatology: a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history.\\nMillennium: a \\u201cthousand years\\u201d seen by John in his vision, recorded in Revelation 20.\\nPremillennialism: the view which holds that the Second Coming of Christ will usher in the millennium, a period of exactly 1,000 years, during which Christ and His saints will reign physically on earth.\\nPostmillennialism: the view which holds that the Second Coming of Christ will follow a very long period of time, not necessarily exactly 1,000 years, a \\u201cGolden Age\\u201d or era of Christian prosperity dominance.\\nAmillennialism: the view which holds that the millennium is symbolic, either of a very long period of time after which Christ returns, or of no period of time at all.\\nTribulation: the \\u201cgreat tribulation\\u201d Jesus speaks of in Matthew 24 after which He is to \\u201ccome\\u201d in some sense, which He appears to have promised his contemporaries would experience.\\nRapture: a belief held by dispensational premillennialists that before, during or after the tribulation, Christ will come to remove Christians from the world, and will bring them back after the tribulation to reign with Him during the millennium.\\nPretribulationalism: the view which holds that the rapture will take place at the beginning of the tribulation.\\nMid-tribulationalism: the view which holds that the rapture will take place halfway into the tribulation.\\nFuturism: the view which holds that most eschatological Bible prophecy remains to be fulfilled in our future.\\nPreterism: the view which holds that most of the biblical prophecies concerning the so-called \\u201cend times\\u201d were fulfilled in our past.\\nHistoricism: the view which holds that Revelation does not foretell events which occur primarily in the first century or at the Second Coming, but symbolically foretells the Church\\u2019s experiences throughout history.\\nIdealism: the view which holds that Revelation does not foretell a chronological series of events at all.\\nHyperpreterism: the heretical view that all biblical prophecies were fulfilled in our past including the Second Coming and resurrection.\\n\\nMore Show Notes Coming Soon\\u2026'