The Victorious Kingdom
With all the insane things we've dealt with the past few years (things like pandemics, riots, and social unrest), It's easy to become a newspaper exegete. What is that? Exegesis is a way of interpreting the Bible in order to get to the intended meaning. Newspaper exegesis is when you read current events back into the Bible as if that is what it was referring to. Prophecy teachers and end times ministries are constantly warning of the impending doom of the last days. Every year there are books written predicting when the end will come, predicting who the antichrist will be, looking for the signs of the great tribulation. With all of this going on, is this the consensus view? Is there any hope for an optimistic theology? I'd like to present a view that most people have probably never considered, but a view that is more mainstream and historic than you'd realize. For this post I want to focus on the church and the kingdom of God, w hat is your view of the church? Not the