tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018387523779914474.post3841362169469518696..comments2023-12-31T05:01:58.031-06:00Comments on Young Stranger: In Case of RaptureJohn Gustav-Wrathallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03557940681381951271noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018387523779914474.post-91945016282342117002008-05-26T22:10:00.000-05:002008-05-26T22:10:00.000-05:00-L- I read Left Behind as allegory. It makes it m...-L- I read <I>Left Behind</I> as allegory. It makes it much more interesting.John Gustav-Wrathallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03557940681381951271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018387523779914474.post-60941542782110489222008-05-22T17:46:00.000-05:002008-05-22T17:46:00.000-05:00"I can't say I hated LaHaye's book."I can! :-)"I can't say I hated LaHaye's book."<BR/><BR/>I can! :-)-L-https://www.blogger.com/profile/02854867259876731599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018387523779914474.post-52471707197164935432008-05-15T10:43:00.000-05:002008-05-15T10:43:00.000-05:00One of the biggest questions was, will Jesus arriv...One of the biggest questions was, will Jesus arrive before or after the millennium? (Personally, I lean toward premillennialism; I think LDS revelation supports that. But not so decidedly as to prevent some LDS leaders from taking a distinctly postmillennialist tack.)<BR/><BR/>Christians have always been uncertain about the literalism of scriptural prophecy in relation to Christ's second coming. What they have never doubted (and what I do not doubt) is <I>that</I> Christ is coming. I am counting on it and praying for it. <BR/><BR/>So much in the Book of Revelation is so self-evidently allegorical, I'm not sure how you go about reading it as future history. I think of it more as a kind of Liahona: you gaze into it in order to get a sense of how you need to orient yourself here and now, and let the rest unfold as God unfolds it. I love the book of Revelation (and Ezekiel, and Daniel, and the Gnostic Apocalyptic literature which sheds much very interesting light on Revelation). I get so much out of it for the here and now, that continues to be my focus in reading it.John Gustav-Wrathallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03557940681381951271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018387523779914474.post-15986758894810463422008-05-15T10:30:00.000-05:002008-05-15T10:30:00.000-05:00I have read almost the entire series (I got a litt...I have read almost the entire series (I got a little bored toward the end) but what really surprised me as I read the books were all the details that I never took in reading Revelation. I don't know if the signs and happenings will be as literal as LaHaye wrote them to be, but it was interesting that every time I balked at some of his events, I would open my scriptures and see a verse that supported what he wrote: beheadings, earthquakes, weird bugs that cry Apollon. Again, not sure if it will all be that literal, but it was an interesting perspective to read.<BR/><BR/>And as far as I've been able to research, the Mormon church doesn't preach the "rapture." We do believe the saints will be caught up to Jesus but I think it's after a lot of this has happened and not "pre-tribulation."Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17254208744417742746noreply@blogger.com