Jerry Jenkins's new book and the end-times arrogance of America-as-bellwether

The hosts cover a Christian Post piece on Left Behind author Jerry Jenkins, whose new novel is titled after his son's hit series The Chosen; they rib him for cashing in on his son's show and joke about his 'mono gifted' line (heard as 'mano gifted'). They note co-author Tim LaHaye's death and Jenkins's 72 million copies sold. On Jenkins's claim the end is near, they push back hard: it is the height of arrogance to treat America as the bellwether for whether the world is ending — the gospel is on fire in China and parts of Africa and in the Middle East. The one point they grant him: no more prophecy needs fulfilling before the end, which has been true for two thousand years (2 Peter 3:8, a thousand years as a day). Their close: the gospel is good news — 'go out and spread the gospel, not go out and scare people to death' — and end-times doctrine is not the bucket to start from.