Is the conflict in Israel a sign of the end times?
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🗓️ 20 October 2023
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As the war in Israel continues, one of the questions we have been asked most frequently at Denison Forum is if the fighting there is a sign of the end times. But what is it about conflict in Israel that causes us to jump to the apocalypse so quickly? And how can we know if this conflict will be the conflict that will ultimately end with Christ’s return?
Author: Ryan Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:32.5 | Greetings. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today is Friday, October the 20th, 2023. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:46.5 | As the war in Israel continues, and more of the surrounding Muslim majority nations indicate they might escalate the situation further. One of the questions we've been |
| 0:55.7 | asked most frequently at Denison Forum is if the fighting there is a sign of the end times. |
| 1:01.8 | It's an understandable question, and from an eschatological perspective, wars and rumors of wars, as stated |
| 1:08.9 | in Matthew 24, in Israel do feel different than the ongoing |
| 1:12.8 | struggle in Ukraine or conflicts elsewhere in the world. But why is that the case? And why do |
| 1:18.2 | so many Christians, in particular, seem to jump so quickly to the end times when conflicts in Israel |
| 1:23.7 | arise? While the answers vary, one of the most prominent factors among evangelical Christians |
| 1:29.1 | is the belief that the nation of Israel will play a central role in the apocalyptic conflicts |
| 1:34.7 | that will ultimately result in Christ's return. Now, it must be said from the start that not all |
| 1:40.8 | Christians agree with that assessment. As Dr. Jim Denison describes, there are seven |
| 1:45.3 | primary approaches that people have taken to understanding the book of Revelation and, by extension, |
| 1:51.3 | how the end times will play out. And people continue to argue about it because no approach is |
| 1:56.8 | in arguably more biblical than the rest, though strong adherence to any one of them might |
| 2:02.4 | disagree. For our purposes today, however, one approach in particular stands out. Of the seven |
| 2:08.8 | ways that Christians have historically viewed in times theology, the most popular in evangelical |
| 2:14.2 | circles today is pre-millennialism. While a variety of perspectives are housed |
| 2:19.3 | within that term, they share the basic belief that the world will never be made right until Christ |
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