![]() The surrealities of the Reign of Terror convinced horrified Christians in Britain that the world was coming to a crashing halt in fulfillment of the catastrophes described in Revelation. Oddly enough, the French Revolution changed all that. They were not thought to refer to a near or distant future. Throughout the long history of Christianity - from at least the 4th century to the early 19th - the vast majority of those who read and heard the stories in the Bible (including the forerunners of modern evangelicals) believed Revelation was describing events that had already happened or were happening in their own time in the life of the church. ![]() This is widely known among historical scholars of the Bible but scarcely at all outside our ranks. In fact, Scripture says no such thing, either in Revelation or in any other book. ![]() ![]() Although evangelicals emphatically believe these predictions, and non-evangelicals decidedly do not, it’s broadly assumed that this is indeed what the Bible predicts. Jenkins’ blockbuster “Left Behind” novels (with movie spinoffs) - has led many more Americans to believe the Bible predicts our imminent end. Popular evangelical culture - including Hal Lindsey’s bestselling 1970 book “The Late Great Planet Earth” and, more recently, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. ![]()
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