Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Joel Beakey

entitled Five Myths About the End Times.

Joel is the co-author of the four-volume set Reformed Systematic Theology from Crossway. Five Myth about the end times, written and read by Joel Beakey.

First, the study of last things.

After the Lord Jesus predicted the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem,

his disciples asked,

Tell us, when shall these things be?

And what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world?

They probably had no idea how much discussion Christ answers to those questions it would generate. Today, the doctrine of

eschatology, the study of last things, is the subject of much controversy. Discussions about

the end times are muddied by certain false ideas about the end of this age and the second coming of Christ. I would like to

discuss and refute five myths about the end times. First, the end times are a failed promise.

Second, that they were entirely fulfilled in the first century.

Third, that in the end times God will save everyone.

Or, four, that he will annihilate the wicked.

In five, that after the end times people will live as heavenly spirits only. So let's look at these five myths.

Myth number one, the end times are of failed promise. According to some teachers of theological

liberalism, Jesus believed that the kingdom of God would come in its glory during his lifetime

on earth and his expectation sadly failed.

Such teachers point to Christ's statement, there are some standing here who will not taste

death until they see the son of man coming in his kingdom. Thus they argue Christ expected

the kingdom of glory to arrive in that generation.

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