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The End of Days by Eddie Turner
n light of the many trials we face in our world
worst name in human history—an individual we’re
today, it’s only natural that we react by sheltering
supposed to be loving and praying for. And yet this is
beneath the umbrella of God’s grace, seeking
what we are seeing among authors, bloggers, and even
knowledge and wisdom concerning our future as
many preachers today. Instead of the whole truth, the
followers of Jesus Christ. Answers concerning the
fragments we embrace have led us to create archaic
end times message in the Bible have never been
methods of tying 666 to the names of public figures
sought more fervently than they are today. And
who we feel are evil and then point them out to the
when our quests for these answers only leave us with more questions, many resort to books and other materials whose messages only add to our confusion. With so many different perspectives out there, how can we know who to trust? As a teacher of God’s Word, I have found that our biggest stumbling block concerning our studies of the end times is that we limit our focus to one or two books of the Bible. Studying Revelation alone, for example, is like watching only the last fifteen minutes of a movie. One can never expect to know the
world. This is not Christ-like behavior and certainly
entire story this way. A person who takes this approach
not what God is prompting us to do.
often fills in the gaps of the story with his or her own
God has never left partial teaching in the hands
ideas that can lead them down a very dangerous path.
of imperfect human beings to finish writing. And
How can this be dangerous? I’ll explain.
there are no mysteries concerning the end times that
Take, for instance, the identity of the antichrist.
we need to solve. We have the whole story. And it
The Bible describes this man in such detail that no two
encompasses all 66 books of the Bible. The end times
human beings may ever match his description. It was
message is the entirety of Scripture. Only when we
obviously God’s intent that we not be mistaken, lest
become devoted to God’s Word with the intent to truly
we slander an undeserving individual with the
know Him may our eyes be opened and our hearts be transformed into vessels for the truth.
32 // November 2020
