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Well, hello friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast. Today we are talking about something

that has been on a lot of our minds, which is end times theology or eschatology. Eschatology is the

fancy word for the final things. And it comes from two Greek words. Eschatos were final and

logos word or idea. And so when we talk about eschatology, we're really talking about

when God brings all things to reconciliation or justice. And your first thought is probably

the book of Revelation. So that crazy book at the end of the Bible with all of the visions and the

bowls and the seals and all of that stuff going on. But we also see a lot of these same themes in the

book of Daniel. And there are other little glimpses of apocalyptic literature like this,

such as in John 14 where Jesus talks about the end times. And so we look at all of these narratives

together. We look at them all together as we are forming our understanding of what the end times

are all about. Now I want to get this out of the way right at the beginning. A lot of us are the

left behind generation. And left behind really messed us up. A lot of us don't actually know the

difference between the biblical account of the end times and what to expect versus the left behind

books and the left behind movies. And so it's very important that we take the time to study this

out for ourselves instead of allowing our lens to be a fictional account written by two well-meaning

people, but still a fictional account. So we want to correct that left behind view point and instead

focus on what scripture itself tells us. Now here's the other thing. There are four main views

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