Are We Living in the Last Days? with Gary DeMar

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🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Are we living in the last days? Many people point to the deluge of disorder and division in the world today as evidence that we are living in the last days. However, this is often the result of sacred scripture being taken out of context. Misunderstandings about the end times (eschatology) have been widely propagated by a seemingly endless stream of end times prophecies and popular books such as the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye. Hank Hanegraaff is joined by end times expert Gary DeMar to clear up the confusion regarding the last days by discussing what the Bible really says about the end times and why it matters today.

Topics discussed include: The geopolitical consequences of eschatological beliefs and the Middle East deals being made by President Trump (4:20); what is dispensational eschatology? (6:10); discussing Israel and the Church–are there two distinct people of God? (8:00); another holocaust of Jews and the terror of rapture theories (10:35); the influence of Tim LaHaye and the Left Behind series on rapture beliefs (13:30); where do rapture beliefs come from? (16:25); the Russian invasion of Israel in dispensational ideology (20:10); dispensationalism and the idea of replacement theologians (26:00); apocalyptic language–should we interpret the Bible literally? (30:20); what was Jesus telling His disciples in the Olivet discourse? (32:55); why do some sceptics call Jesus a false apocalyptic prophet? (38:35); translation issues in the Olivet discourse such as mistaking the end of a period of time for the end of the world (42:00); how can so many dispensationalists misread the Bible? (54:50); many people and churches distanced themselves from Hank Hanegraaff when he wrote his book The Apocalypse Code (1:06:30); reading and understanding the Bible in the light that the Bible was not written to us, but it was written for us (1:07:40); using the Bible to interpret the Bible (1:14:10); do we find the ideas from Left Behind and the rapture in the Olivet discourse? (1:16:20); misunderstanding the Book of Revelation (1:14:20); what is the key to understanding the Book of Revelation? (1:24:45); Hanegraaff discusses the phrase Exegetical Eschatology as written about in his book The Apocalypse Code: Find Out What the Bible REALLY Says About the End Times… and Why It Matters Today (1:33:10). https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-the-apocalypse-code-det/

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0:56.5	This is going to be a really interesting podcast because we're going to talk about the most popular end times paradigm.
1:04.7	Perhaps in the entire world today.
1:08.0	Now, it may not be the most prevalent, but it is the most popular, particularly
1:14.0	in America. It's an end-time scenario in which God has two distinct people, one of whom
1:22.6	will be raptured, and the other is destined for the greatest Holocaust in the history of the human race.
1:31.3	If you know anything about Hal Lindsay, this is going back a long, long ways to the late great planet Earth,
1:38.3	he was talking about this Holocaust making the Holocaust of the Nazis look like Girl Scouts weaving a daisy
1:47.0	chain. So it's going to be a horrendous time for Jews in this popular version of N-Times,
1:56.1	which again is being communicated on television, on radio. You see it in magazines in millions and millions of
2:05.8	books without using any hyperbole whatsoever. Now the question we're going to discuss today is,
2:12.9	yes, it's popular, but is it really biblical?
2:25.5	And to discuss this with all of you today, I have a friend I've known for many, many years, Gary DeMar, in fact, just before the podcast, we're talking about the fact that we had spent
2:29.2	some time in China together. Gary is the author of countless essays, news articles, more than 35 books,
2:38.0	including one of my favorites, End Times fiction, appropriately named and well-written.
2:45.7	Gary lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Carol. They have two married sons. And he is always involved in debates and
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