Win the World or Escape the Earth?

There are no grounds at all in John’s epistles for the notion of an end-time world ruler emerging to control a one-world government in opposition to the church. Sound principles of Bible interpretation forbid us building a teaching from silence or conjecture. Neither can Bible passages legitimately be superimposed onto John’s references to antichri

we are born from above and no longer share the nature of this world. The consequence of being in the world but not of the world is that we will experience the same attitudes from society that Jesus himself encountered.

A classic example relating to the return of Christ is the way Daniel 9:26 is interpreted. Belief in a two-stage return of Christ requires this verse to be separated from its preceding verses by a time gap of at least 2,000 years. Yet the passage itself offers not a shred of evidence that it should be interpreted in this way!

Let gloom, despair and dead traditions be banished from our lives so that God’s wonderful provision in Christ can flow into the church, fill our lives and flow out from us to bless all the nations

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dispensational assumptions and rapture theology have conditioned Christians to abdicate from any further role in the world.

Dispensationalism has, over the last 150 years, deeply eroded the expectation of many of God’s people concerning the end times. Instead of faith, there is fear. Rather than abounding hope, there is apprehension and speculation.

the issue is not how much each of us has but whether we have been faithful to handle correctly what we have been given.

In Christ, all are Abraham’s offspring (Galatians 3:29). There is no evidence for two separate peoples.