Welcome to the Prophecy Pros podcast. I'm Jeff Kinley along with Todd Hampson, and we're in season 13 here, and we are covering some incredible topics about the, really the emotions associated with eschatology. And of course, we can't do this without Harvest House publishers and the support and the behind the scenes that they do to make this thing possible.

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So Todd, we're talking last time about fear and about how fear is one of the,

really one of the primary emotions that people feel as it relates to Bible prophecy.

And I think we brought some good content there,

some good counsel to help people kind of deal with that. But we're kind of moving on to another

emotion here. We're going to talk today about confusion. And when you start talking about

Bible prophecy, I mean, you go to Amazon, type in Bible prophecy, type in eschatology, and you're

liable to get confused because you're going to have all these different conflicting views that people have.

You're going to have all these nuances, you know, you're going to have titles of books that don't make sense.

You're going to have people talking about events you've never heard of.

And so there can be a lot of confusion in Bible prophecy. And I think just to start it off,

is that two ways that from my perspective on how people get the most confused are, number one,

you have people that are sensationalists with Bible prophecy. And they see a prophecy behind every

bush. You know, it's like every headline is a

fulfilled prophecy type thing. And it causes people to kind of be like news junkies, if you will. And they're

looking for the next headline because they think somehow it's related to the Bible prophecy.

And to be, you know, to be sure, some of them are related, but not all of

them have anything to do with prophecy. So that can create confusion because they don't know,

well, how does this relate? So they go to their favorite teacher and he either does or doesn't

say something. So that's kind of one extreme. The other extreme, from sensationalism, you go over to

scoffing. You have people that obviously out there in the world, like 2nd Peter 3 says, is that they will say, with their mocking, they'll say, where's the promise of his coming? You know, for ever since the father's fell asleep, everything's been continuing just as it is. So they'll mock this whole idea that you even believe that there's a return of Jesus or anything like that.

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