Part One

No explanation of origins succeeds at explaining how everything got here, including how people got here, except for the biblical one.  And the biblical one makes sense, because it fits everything that we see.  Evidence also confirms the Bible.

An explosion turning into terrific, complicated design, either physical or biological, just can’t be true.  We have no basis for believing that, and people really don’t.  They opt for the explanation, but not because it is true.  It is convenient for personal autonomy.  It’s a method for blocking God out of the psyche.

Naturalistic End Time Belief

On the other end, people invent an ending too.  It says, everything will burn out and turn into free floating space junk.  The universe will go silent.  Despite Star Trek, Star Wars, and any other fictional alien story, no life will exist.

How it ends is some kind of global warming, global freezing, collision of an asteroid, called an “impact event,” a world wide nuclear holocaust, or the spread of a incurable deadly disease that kills everyone (pandemic).  The latter probably doesn’t work, because it probably just kills people.  Animals of many different varieties survive, running around and doing what animals would do without people here.  Perhaps they wait for the inevitable evolution into something closer to people.

The avoidance of end time catastrophe in this naturalistic sense means people doing a better job of not destroying the planet.  They do that apparently by adapting. This means the soon end of carbon emissions.

Apocalypse

People call the planet ending catastrophe, “apocalypse.”   Those who know the Bible might find this ironic, because that’s the Greek word for the Book of Revelation.  Revelation doesn’t provide such an ending as what men call an apocalypse.  People don’t even know what the apocalypse of Revelation is.

Apocalypse is Jesus coming back to earth with unveiled glory.  He came the first time as Savior and He appears the second time as Judge.  People are basically correct in that apocalypse is end time destruction, but it is an angry God judging the world because of sin.

The world’s population doesn’t promote talk about sin.  People don’t want to hear about sin. They hate that.  People want to hear good news, but not what the Bible says is “good news,” the gospel.  Good news to the people of the world would be living however they want without destruction.  They despise any warning of destruction that comes because of sin.  People revel in the idea that destruction might come because of carbon emissions.  No problem there.

Preachers and theologians cooperate with the naturalistic end time viewpoint, the cataclysmic ending of the planet, by confusing and contorting what the Bible says about the end.  Their views show very little urgency.  The true view of the end is urgent.  Many Bible preachers today mock any kind of urgency as kooky, elevating instead their spiritualized, allegorical, and subjective positions.  Why not opt for a naturalistic view, if the people who are supposed to know the Bible aren’t themselves clear about how everything ends?

Eschatological Boldness

Christians today are very often afraid to make a statement about naturalistic end time views.  They are so unsure about how the world will end that they most often stop telling the world what the Bible says.  Professing believers are not really that offended about the naturalistic explanations like climate change.  They don’t think Christians should speak in dogmatic fashion about what the Bible says.

Even professing Christians consider biblical end time teaching to be questionable.  They diminish it to something on the level of art on the other side of the campus from the engineering department.  It can’t be viewed like science.  Someone cannot trust the Bible that much, especially for prophecy.  As a result, Christians themselves and then especially the world is not prepared for how the world will really end.

The shame felt over eschatological beliefs debilitates Christians.  They won’t talk about those beliefs in public.  Instead, they leave conversations about the end for very private enclaves of the few like minded.  This is not the will of God.  God expects boldness on talk of the future.  The Bible portrays a clear picture of what to expect for the future.

Christians should unequivocally reject the naturalistic end times explanations. They are repugnant and an offense to God.  Naturalistic eschatology capitulates to the world system.  What the Bible says about the end is not a mere theological position.  It is the truth.  Everyone around needs to hear what will really occur in the future.  They need a thorough debunking of the modern false views of how the world will end.

Scriptural Authority

People want to live like they want.  A major contributing factor eliminates future judgment of God.  Satan and his minions attack the teaching of the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Confusion over the second coming, when Jesus comes and judges the world, takes away a major motivation for salvation and personal purity.  If people don’t think Jesus is coming, they can or might live however they want.  They don’t consider the consequences of their sin.

Christians with boldness must stand on the teaching of creation and of the end of the earth.  They must embrace what scripture teaches.  Satan told Eve in the Garden of Eden, “Thou shalt not surely die.”  The capitulation to the world on the end times offers a similar lie to the people of the world.  They miss the blessing (Revelation 1:3) of an important warning of their dire future without Jesus Christ.