{"id":15787,"date":"2013-06-18T06:37:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T10:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=15787"},"modified":"2013-06-14T02:52:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T06:52:34","slug":"5-years-ago-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2013\/06\/18\/5-years-ago-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"5 years ago: Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

June 18, 2008, on this blog: Contact<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Premillennial dispensationalist prophecy types like Tim LaHaye and John Hagee \u2026 believe that \u201cthe end\u201d cannot come until\u00a0after<\/em>\u00a0every nation and tribe on the planet has heard the gospel. And they really, really\u00a0want<\/em>\u00a0\u201cthe end\u201d to come. They can\u2019t wait for this world to be over with already.<\/p>\n

This leads to the odd situation of PMDs supporting the preaching of the gospel to every tribe and every nation in order to speed the day in which every tribe and every nation is swept away in the apocalypse. That\u2019s an oddly contradictory sort of motivation, but anyone who\u2019s looked at PMDs\u2019 ardent \u201csupport for Israel\u201d will already be familiar with this dynamic. They are fiercely \u201cpro-Israel,\u201d because that\u2019s where Megiddo is, and therefore where Armageddon will happen, and they can\u2019t wait to see Armageddon when all the Jews get wiped out.<\/p>\n

Both LaHaye and Hagee are fond of saying that \u201cthe end\u201d could come before they reach the end of their sentence\/interview\/sermon. It could come, they say, at any second now. That claim would seem insupportable given that: A) they believe that \u201cthe end\u201d cannot come until every tribe has heard the gospel preached; and B) many tribes, such as the people pictured above, have not yet heard any such preaching.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t worry, LaHaye and Hagee believe they have this covered. They believe that after all the real, true Christians are snatched off the earth \u2014 which could happen at any moment \u2014 the RTC gospel will then be preached to every tribe and nation by an army of singing Jewish virgins.<\/p>\n

No, really. This is what Tim LaHaye thinks when he looks at a picture like the one above: \u201cOops, looks like our missionaries missed a spot. Oh well, the 144,000 singing virgins will have to get to them after we\u2019re outta here.\u201d<\/p>\n

I may have mentioned this before, but PMDs are\u00a0nuts.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But don\u2019t worry, LaHaye and Hagee believe they have this covered. They believe that after all the real, true Christians are snatched off the earth \u2014 which could happen at any moment \u2014 the RTC gospel will then be preached to every tribe and nation by an army of singing Jewish virgins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n5 years ago: Contact<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"But don\u2019t worry, LaHaye and Hagee believe they have this covered. 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