End times
45 conversations where the hosts get into end times.
45 conversations
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Prophecy article: should pastors teach the end times?
- Should pastors teach Bible prophecy and the end times?
- What are the top three reasons Jesus rebuked his disciples?
The hosts read a Christian Post article on evangelical leaders urging pastors not to forsake teaching Bible prophecy (Jack Hibbs: 20–40% of the Bible; Revelation 19's 'Jesus is the spirit of prophecy').
From No. 451 · Mississippi Don’t Push
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Do pastors have to preach prophecy and the end times?
- Must pastors teach Bible prophecy and the end times?
The hosts react to a prophecy-conference article in which Jack Hibbs urges pastors not to skip Bible prophecy.
From No. 448 · November 8 2021
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Jeremiah: cursed is the man who trusts in man
- What good does it do to pronounce this the end of the world?
A host shares from Jeremiah 16-18, reading that the sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron and engraved on the tablet of their heart, and that God says, 'cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength.'
From No. 419 · Election Stuff, Reluctantly
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Doomsday prophecies and date-setting
- Could failed doomsday prophecies lead people to reject Jesus Christ?
- Should Christians publicly oppose or warn against date-setting doomsday teachers?
Reacting to a Christian Post article on failed doomsday prophecies, the hosts debate whether date-setters deserve public opposition or are best ignored.
From No. 332 · To Kneel or to Drag
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Harold Camping and the failed end-of-the-world predictions
- What was the biggest news story or conversation the show covered this year?
Asked for the year's biggest story, the hosts land on the end of the world: Harold Camping's failed predictions and apology tour, and a local man who bought billboards, appeared…
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How much does theology really matter?
The hosts take up the docket's hard question: does theology matter? A pastor's systematic-theology-as-automobile analogy argues the doctrines are engineered to work as one vehicle…
From No. 502 · When Evil Strikes
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Deuteronomy 32 and the Song of Moses
A pre-show remark about one chasing a thousand and two putting ten thousand to flight opens a long Deuteronomy 32 digression.
From No. 457 · House Church Trouble in Olympic China
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End-times panel predictions and dollar-collapse mockery
The hosts read the prophecy panel's closing predictions — the antichrist coming, the US dollar collapsing — and mock the economics: ruin tends to drive people to God, and 'the poor people love Jesus.'
From No. 451 · Mississippi Don’t Push
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Bible Gateway's 2020 search trends: pandemic, politics, end times
Continuing the article, the hosts read Bible Gateway's four key themes people turned to the Bible for: pandemic (disease, pestilence, plague), politics (praying for government, obeying government), and end times.
From No. 418 · Top Bible Searches of 2020
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Bauckham's legal-claim theory; the accuser and the comfort
- Is there a spiritual tussle over your body or soul like the one over Moses?
Ben covers Richard Bauckham's theory that the devil laid legal claim to Moses' body because Moses was a sinner — a murderer — with the claim aimed at his soul, paralleling…
From No. 535 · Solo Contendere
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Four signs the 10 plagues are reappearing -- blood and hail
- Are the 10 plagues reappearing?
The hosts take up the docket article: COVID as pestilence, Revelation's bowls mirroring the plagues, cicada booms, and water turning rust red.
From No. 532 · Murph and the End
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Jeff Kinley's 'super sign' of the end times
- Is Israel's 1948 rebirth God's 'super sign' of the end times?
A host reads a Christian Post article about author Jeff Kinley, who calls Israel's rebirth as a nation God's 'super sign' of the end times.
From No. 409 · Super Sign of the End Times
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What 'the end times' means, and Israel as people vs nation-state
- What does the Bible mean by 'the end times'?
The hosts argue that biblically 'the end times' means everything after Jesus, not a recent development.
From No. 409 · Super Sign of the End Times
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Pastor seeks $100 million for end-times media platform
- Should Rick Wiles get $100 million to build a global media platform for the end times?
The hosts read an article about nondenominational pastor Rick Wiles of Flowing Streams Church, who says God gave him a vision of a global media platform to guide people through the end times and is asking for $100 million after being booted from YouTube.
From No. 377 · Methodist Lutheran Baptist
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Failed end-of-the-world prediction and its aftermath
- How should Christians respond to repeated end-of-the-world predictions?
The hosts discuss a group (eBible Fellowship) that had predicted the world would end October 7, reading their post-failure statement about a 'strong likelihood' of judgment and its link to Harold Camping's May 21, 2011 prediction.
From No. 253 · Habits of Highly Miserable People
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What a healthy conversation about end-times scripture sounds like
- What does a healthy conversation about apocalyptic or end-times scripture look like?
The hosts discuss how to talk about apocalyptic literature and end-times passages in a healthy way: not obsessing over dates, but being anchored in God's faithfulness and sovereignty so that the timing of upheaval is not the point.
From No. 253 · Habits of Highly Miserable People
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Trending: blood moon and the end of the world
- Are the four blood moons a sign of the end of the world?
Dan Hudson presents the blood moon story: four lunar eclipses between tonight and September 2015, framed with paraphrases of Joel quoted in Acts 2 (sun darkened, moon to blood) and Revelation 6 (sixth seal).
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Quiz: it's the end of the world as we know it
- What do we know about people who have predicted the end of the world?
Ben plays an October 2012 quiz on end-of-the-world predictions: the Thessalonians alarmed by an end-times rumor (2 Thessalonians), the Sun's 1997 Noah's Ark story, Luther's 'three…
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Quiz: The end of the world as we know it
- Pope Innocent III computed the end of the world to be 1284, 666 years after the founding of which religion?
- In the 1840s, William Miller led the Millerites and predicted the world would end when?
The hosts and their guest play a five-question multiple-choice quiz about people who wrongly predicted the end of the world: Pope Innocent III and 1284 (answer: Islam), William…
From No. 122 · November12 , 2012
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Non-biblical sign #1: the Fix-a-Flat buttocks case
- Is this news story a non-biblical sign of the apocalypse, or do we have more time?
The game opens with the news story of O'Neal Morris, arrested in South Florida for injecting Fix-a-Flat and other substances in a black-market buttocks-enhancing business, facing manslaughter charges after a client's death.
From No. 113 · September 3 2012
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Comedy bit: parody station, fake ads, end-times letter
- What should I do about the hosts making fun of my shirt every single week?
A comedy stretch: fake ads ('You can buy this mouse for $19.95', 'Donkey rib cage, 30 bucks'), the parody station 'Silk Sheets and Rainbows,' and a roll call where a host introduces himself on-air as Ben ('As always, Mike Boos and Dan Hudson.
From No. 55 · May 16 2011
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Family Radio after Harold Camping
- How is Family Radio doing nearly four years after Harold Camping's death?
The hosts read a Christian Post update: nearly four years after Family Radio founder Harold Camping's death, the station is on the mend - donations up, and Answers in Genesis added to programming after Camping's 05/21/2011 rapture prediction failed and he retired.
From No. 321 · Five Things to Stop in Your Twenties
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Locusts, isolated plagues, and the giraffe
Sign three: Saudi Arabia hit by massive locust swarms (the eighth plague). Debate follows: are isolated disasters -- a Charleston house fire, train derailments -- signs of the end times or ordinary events ('it could either be the return of Jesus or a train derailment').
From No. 532 · Murph and the End
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BeliefNet listicle, part 2: apocalypse predictions and 'more than you can handle'
Items four and five of the BeliefNet article: (4) treating tragedy as 'a sign of the apocalypse,' with hosts pushing back on doomsday predictions as unbiblical fear-mongering…
From No. 502 · When Evil Strikes