An Novel Eschatology View Book in the Works
I had plans to put together a theological treatise on the reasons Christians need to examine what the Bible actually says about the last of the last days this year, but other work and fiction projects pushed that toward 2027 or 2028.
I’ve written nonfiction about this subject before, but I never published that book back in 2018 when I had written it. It was called Dark Sentences: A Biblical Approach to the Antichrist Riddle.
The book suggested we might have a long way to go before we’re anywhere near the end times. I approached the subject of the Antichrist as being a man who understands the hidden world that most people don’t see, based on the verse in Daniel 8:23 that suggests this man arises after some time passes on the world stage by satanic power and that he understands hidden things.
Most people don’t understand the esoteric or the occult, especially not Christians who never study eschatology.
But my plan is to rewrite this book (which will hopefully be under 400 pages) and remold it into a theological framework on why anyone who says the Antichrist is alive today is deceived or mistaken.
My own eschatology could be mistaken—as I’m fully aware of—but the Bible is the source of all knowledge about history yet to be and it tells us things.
That being said, when we read the prophecies of Daniel in the seventh chapter, notice those kingdoms must arise in the future.
It is only after three other kingdoms arise that the last empire in history comes to power (Daniel 7:23).
The traditional view that these empires are Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome is ridiculous, since they exist when the Messiah returns to rule.
Whether these kingdoms rule one after another or all exist concurrently is beside the point. They exist during the time of the eschaton.
While a strong case can be made that the lion with eagle’s wings could be a reference to England and the USA, this may not be the case at all. Our nation is only 250 years old, and in that time the world stage has changed quite a bit. The Ottoman Empire fell in the 1920s, leading to the British Mandate over the land of Israel. If 250 years pass again, what will the world look like?
I admit Israel’s existence today is interesting. But what if the Israel of the end times is 400 years old by the time the events play out?
Why do Christians never ask themselves these questions?
Wasn’t World War II worse than the current crisis? We had a genocidal maniac in power who tried to kill the Jewish people—yet the end did not occur.
And the next holocaust will be the worst in history, for it will be against both Jews and Christians of the House of Israel on a global scale.
We need to be careful about fitting current events into the Bible to force it. I said in a recent post that I see echoes of the Four Horsemen today. But I did not say that they were riding.
I’m getting sick of pin-the-tail-on-the-Antichrist from most Christians today.
“It’s Kushner!” Not a fierce-faced guy. Sorry.
“Trump is the Beast!” The Antichrist is not a ruler at first and seizes a kingdom by intrigue. Sorry again. Come on, guys. My dog would make a better Antichrist candidate.
“I’m telling you, it’s an alien!” I mean, the guy could be a supernatural being, but he’s an earthly king.
The reason I want to rewrite this book is to show that the world of the end times is far different from our own time.
· Kings are in power.
· Modern warfare seems a thing of the past during those days.
· There might be Gundam-style space colonies and people living on the seas.
· Cities exist in places that are empty today.
· A high-tech mark is enforced, or you can’t buy or sell anything.
· Some kind of android or mass-hologram system will kill those who don’t worship it.
· Apocryphal books like Enoch seem to suggest evil angels will return and mingle with human society.
· The world seems used to supernatural occurrences like the Antichrist, the False Prophet, and the Two Witnesses.
· There will be a new Temple in Jerusalem.
· Nations that need to exist don’t yet.
· A strange governance of ten kings will be in play, which is a weird structure for government unless you’re familiar with the legend of Atlantis.
· There are wars that need to happen and changes in kingship that will take hundreds of years (Daniel 11:6-21).
The list goes on.
My reason for rewriting this old book from my personal slush pile is that I’ve seen so many Christians thinking this must be it. Jesus must be returning in 2028 or 2030.
What if Jesus doesn’t return until well past 2820?
From what we know, the Beast rules for 42 months. Jesus’s Second Coming puts an end to the Antichrist. Meaning 2028 can’t be the year of the Second Coming.
Even if the Temple went up in 2027, that still means the worst time in history would take us past 2030, and that’s if the guy showed up next year.
Let’s be sober and pragmatic about the time in which we live. We could see a massive global conflict in the next five years. Sure. But is that the end?
You realize governments changing can take decades, right?
I think this will be a book that the Body of Christ needs to put the brakes on the rampant over-speculation.
I certainly don’t have all the answers. But I’d love to find them out by being sensible and responsible.
May we be found worthy of that kingdom, whether it comes soon or is distant on the farthest horizon of history.
Blessings and shalom to whoever might read this.
