Episode 10: Prophetic Schizophrenia Under the Microscope

Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope: Episode 10

Many modern preachers and authors are schizophrenic. They don’t seem to understand that their messages are contradictory and often cause their hearers to become paralyzed with indecision.

Thousands of tracts, magazine articles, sermons and radio messages tell the people, “Jesus is coming soon!” “These are the last days of this dispensation” and similar phrases are very common in the Christian magazines. “Time is running out!” writes one Christian, who means that in a very short time Jesus is certain to come. “The last great mission opportunity before Jesus comes” is the way one mission field is described. A widely-known seminary professor on the west coast is quoted as saying, “I believe we are seeing the very closing days of this dispensation.” Some Christian writers regard the atomic bomb, the rise of Russia, the founding of the new Israel state, the last world war (as they regarded the first world war), as evidence that we are in the very last days before Jesus comes.

All these people, usually faithful Bible believers, earnest Christians, have been influenced and misled by a heresy that has become widespread in recent years. This mistaken teaching holds that we are now, according to what are regarded as definite signs, in the very last few weeks or months or years before Jesus must come; that this period which they call “the last days” is more difficult than ever. They believe that sinners are harder hearted, that Satan deceives people more than ever, that world conditions make it harder to reach people with the gospel, and that for all these reasons great revivals are less likely than ever, if not impossible…

The defeatism of Christians, who are not bold in preaching nor bold in prayer because they believe that Christian work is less effective than ever before, that the gospel does not bring the results that it did before, and that great revivals are less likely than ever before, is tragic indeed. And it is especially sad to see this defeatism springing up because of misinterpretation of Scriptures by Christians who really believe the Bible and love Jesus Christ.

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Many modern preachers and authors are schizophrenic. On one hand they sensationalize current events as being part of the “end times” and yet also highlight how Christians must be involved culturally and politically. They don’t seem to understand that these messages are contradictory and often cause their hearers to become paralyzed with indecision.

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