On today's end time show, I'll be addressing some common claims that the book of Revelation is just a collection of allegories or just spiritual realities.

And therefore, the rapture and the Great Tribulation are just myths and the Jewish age has already ended.

Some even suggest the church shouldn't take a position on end times

at all. Well, we'll look at what the Bible really says and why this conversation is so important.

So stay with us. This is one you won't want to miss. Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Dave Robbins with In Time Ministries, and I do thank you for joining me on this edition of the End Time Show.

You know, we've been getting some callers and some different emails and things in, and it's just, you know, it's kind of interesting to hear some of the different ones called in that are saying that the

Bible is just an allegorical book or just a just a bunch of allegories put together but

I want to answer that question and speak to that because it's becoming a kind of a reoccurring

event here and I wanted to make sure that we,

what does the Bible say? Because the Bible can speak for itself, and so we want to go to the Bible

to make sure and see what it says. Is that true? Is it just a bunch of myths and fairy tales

or just spiritual realities and nothing that's literal. Well, I want to talk about that

today. So the question is, is the Bible an allegorical book? Well, a biblical allegory is a

symbolic narrative in the Bible where characters, events, objects, they represent a deeper spiritual truths or moral lessons beyond their literal meaning.

So allegories are a way scripture communicates profound theological ideas in story form. And there are some

allegories in there. And but it allows readers to grasp a very complex truth through familiar imagery.

And they're very effective.

However, some people are claiming that the entire Bible is an allegory

and that you can't settle on anything that's literal

and this is a literal event and things like that.

And so I wanted to talk to that about that today.

Now, one example of this would be the Apostle Paul in Galatians chapter 4, where he's addressing

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