Left Behind and Loving It: A Cheeky Look at the End Times by Davis D. Mark

Author:Davis, D. Mark [Davis, D. Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

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Pulpit Fiction

Living through the Great Fibulation

I HAPPENED TO READ A SERMON ONLINE RECENTLY THAT TOOK ME UTTERLY BY SURPRISE. IT IS A SERMON BASED ON THE APOCALYPTIC IMAGES OF THE BIBLE, PARTICULARLY THE “ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION” THAT WE READ ABOUT IN DANIEL AND MARK. THE SERMON BEGAN WITH THE USUAL LITERALIST MANNER OF READING THE SCRIPTURES—TEXT ON TOP OF TEXT, WITH LITTLE REGARD FOR WHO WROTE THEM, WHEN THEY WERE WRITTEN, AND WHAT THEY WERE ADDRESSING; A SMATTERING OF HISTORY—WITHOUT MUCH CONCERN FOR ACCURACY—TO SHOW HOW THE “PREDICTIONS” HAVE BEEN FULFILLED; BLAMING ISRAEL’S HISTORIC WOES ON THE JEWS’ REJECTION OF CHRIST, BUT KEEPING THEM AS THE CENTER OF GOD’S FUTURE ATTENTION; AND SO FORTH.

The preacher then described how God had partially fulfilled Daniel’s and Mark’s prophecies by sending the abomination of desolation (via the Roman general Titus) to destroy Jerusalem in the year 70 CE. Finally, the preacher described how the dire words of Daniel and Mark are now being fulfilled in our present day, in a rain of judgment that is even worse than in first-century Jerusalem because it is so deserved by our current generation. Here is his claim:

Horrible as that act of divine judgment was, it was nothing compared to the abomination of desolation which the Lord God has sent upon this reprobate age in which we live. The things which happened in Jerusalem 1900 years ago only foreshadowed the judgment of God which has fallen upon this generation. Read the first chapter of Romans, and you will discover that ours is not a generation ripe for the judgment of God. This generation is under the judgment of God . I can think of no age, no generation, no circumstance under which the warning of [Mark 13:17] is more appropriate than it is in this day of . . . 1

I’m sorry to leave you on the edge of your seat, but what would you guess will be the end of the last sentence? What horrific circumstance in present-day existence makes our age, our generation “more appropriate” than ever before to experience the fullness of God’s judgment? Remember, if our generation’s iniquity is worse than all of the iniquities of past generations, it must be worse than the Inquisition, the conquest of Native Americans, the enslavement of Africans, the Shoah under the Nazi regime, the killing fields of Cambodia, the “disappeared” in Latin America, and even that short-lived reality television show that starred Hulk Hogan. So, how do you think this preacher finished the last sentence above? Brace yourself; you may want to go wash your eyes after you read this. Here is that last sentence in toto: “I can think of no age, no generation, no circumstance under which the warning of verse seventeen is more appropriate than it is in this day of apostate, freewill, works religion .” [My emphasis. And well-deserved emphases at that!]

I think I’m going to dress up as an “apostate, freewill, works religion” for Halloween next year, since it is, apparently, the scariest evil imaginable.

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