Here is a link to my ongoing eschatology (end times) archive over on my other blog. I’m still showing how any view of end times is based on guesses and presuppositions. I should warn readers at this point, though. If you are married to the pre-trib / pre-mill view of end times, you may find the last two posts (numbers 8 and 9) at the other blog disturbing. I’m showing how the core ideas of that view are far from self-evident. I’m not taking any sides (again, I don’t care for any of the views), but I’m doing this since it will be the basis for explaining why I’m not on board with the common notion (among Christian ufologists) that UFOs and alien abductions are proof that we are living in the end times. Still setting the table for that.
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 9
It is interesting to note that a number of people among Christians – ufologists, as you say – and a number of people in other religions like Islam – among them, terrorist in order to justify their deeds – are now putting forward this “end of the world” way of thinking. Is the world coming to an end, or just their world because people don’t believe anymore in what they say?
this sort of thing comes and goes in cycles. Thirty years ago, when I was a teenager, the fulfillment of prophecy was filtered through the Soviet Union. It was the major enemy to the US and the West. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1989 you didn’t hear anything “prophetic” about it. Now that the Russians are more visible in geo-political terms, and now that Ahmedinejad is spouting (and praying publicly at the UN) about being the one who ushers in the last imam, and now that China is emerging as the globe’s leading economic power (largely due to the incoherent policies of the American Left), the Bible is being filtered through our own times. Doing this kind of thing isn’t a sign of unbelief in prophecy (?) but of belief – and also, in my view, of uncritically accepting one way of looking at prophetic passages.