Today’s is a Question & Response episode focusing on our Apocalyptic series from a few months back. Tune in next week for another Q&R on our women series! We love questions!
Keep any questions you have about this topic, or any other topic coming! We’ll do our best to answer them in future episodes. Email thekindfaith@gmail.com
SHOW NOTES:
[00:12] Introduction: We’re reviewing some questions about the apocalypse today. Specifically on the difference between reading the Bible as “code” versus “symbol.”
[01:37] Question 1: Does the first word of the Bible give us a coded prophecy about the end-times? This response tackles the question of numerology and “code-breaking” in the Bible. (spoiler: it’s not a code!) This is a way of reading the Bible that doesn’t take the actual Bible seriously enough.
[05:15] Is the Bible we have good enough? or do we think we need to fix it?
[07:47] The guys discuss a set of “guardrails” for how we can look for patterns and numbers without making it too much about “code-breaking.” Patterns were placed intentionally because the authors were artistic and literary geniuses, but they are there to accentuate the themes already in the passage, not as a code about something else entirely.
examples: Genesis 1 and the repetition of “7”; Matthew 1 and the repetition of “14”; and the benefit (or not) of reading the original languages.
[21:53] Question 2: If Jesus warned his followers to flee the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, should we not expect him to take his church out of the coming tribulation? This is another angle to talk about the rapture. Would God allow his people to suffer wrath and tribulation? What is the role of suffering for Christians?
When does God say, ‘That one’s not your fight’?
