2005 in Prophecy 

2005 in Prophecy

In a Church of God related matter I see Living Church of God’s recent Tomorrow’s World is another hair raiser. It starts out “The most horrifying time of death and destruction is coming within the lifetimes of most of you”. Apparently the lessons of 1975 and Prophecy along with the many times it was spoken with certainty that Christ was returning in your lifetime have been forgotten. Many of the people those words were spoken to are now either deceased or getting senior’s discounts. When I hear people say “ We never said that” I think, yes we did. I was there. I heard it. Unfortunately some continue to make the same mistakes. That is not to say the biblical prophecies of the end time should not be preached. They are there and they should be preached but no one can possibly say they are coming within any person’s lifetime. Could it happen in our lifetime? Possibly, but we can’t say that with certainty. Are we better than the disciples who thought it would happen in their lifetimes? All we accomplish with that is to bring ridicule and make God out to be a liar. What the motivation is to say that I don’t know. In some cases it probably is sincere. In some it is probably ego. In some it is probably the knowledge that proclaiming the end of the age is going to get more responses than a message on some Christian living topic. I am not necessarily singling out LCG. Other groups and people are guilty also. I just happened to run across it today. I wonder if that particular program was put out intentionally to coincide with Rita. I hope it wasn’t.