End Times Matters

 Back in 2011 during high school, I wrote this paper about Harold Camping's prediction of the rapture being wrong. I printed out a few copies of it and gave some to some people at school. Back in high school I wore Christian t-shirts and carried around a Bible so people knew I was a Christian. There were people asking me if the rapture prediction was true/right and there were people making fun of me for saying it's a false prediction, quoting Harold Camping saying "The Bible guarantees it!". I played a little with the margins and spacing to make it 4 pages so putting it here will likely make it longer. May 21st 2011 was a Saturday (for reference in days of week around then mentioned below). The Rapture Will Not Happen On May 21, 2011! Harold Camping may claim that the end of the world or the Rapture will happen on May 21, 2011, and he may claim that the Bible has proof of it, but the Bible actually proves the controversial to be true. The Bible proves that he is wrong...

 I'm currently on a journey to more clearly decide on a view for the end times passages of the Bible, as currently I'm between a couple views and would like more certainty and evidence for either view. Your view of the end times matters because to some extent it determines how you live now. If you have a pessimistic view of the end times you might be discouraged about culture being able to improve; but there are some views that are more optimistic of the future. If you're looking forward to the rapture, your focus could tend toward converting as many people as possible but ignoring discipleship. But if the rapture is coming, then you should really try to convert as many as possible before it's too late and abandon projects that appear to be going nowhere in the short term. Also if you have a problematic interpretation of the end times, your interpretive method could be negatively impacting how you interpret other parts of Scripture. The different views of end times get ...