Let's face it: every generation has suffered from eschatological tunnel-vision, convincing itself from good, sound eisogesis that IT is the generation which will see Christ's return. Every once in a while, when I start to feel myself caught up in the perennial enthusiasm, I break out an old vinyl LP of Jack Van Impe preaching on "The Coming War with Russia," to remind myself of the true nature of the dogmatic certainty of the date-setters (in the Old Testament these guys were stoned; today they become bestselling authors--go figure).
Nevertheless, from time to time a story pops up on the radar that seems to lend some credibility to the idea that we may be living in the last of the "last days". Consider this article about the completion of a tzitz, the High Priest's headpiece, by the Temple Institute in Israel.
I'm not really referring to the crown itself, since the bare existence of such an article is not proof; but to the fact that it can be produced and immediately announced worldwide. The framework for the sort of global events of Daniel and Revelation has always existed--His name is Jehovah. However we are seeing, from a human perspective, an increasing plausibility that the conservative, dispensational, pre-trib, pre-mil scenario could play out on CNN today. Hmmmm . . .
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