Three Ways People Read the End of the Story
How to Use This Book
You picked this up because someone has been talking about the end of the world, and you were not sure what to believe — a chart, a Facebook page quoting more Scripture than your pastor does on Sunday, a question your own child asked about a rapture or a thousand years that you realized you had never actually worked out for yourself.
This book assumes you already call Jesus Christ your Lord. It is not an argument for Christianity. It is an argument between Christians, held out in the open, so you can watch it happen and learn to hold your own convictions the way a mature disciple holds them: firmly, but with your hands still open.
There are three ways serious, Bible-believing people read what the New Testament says about the future. This book walks through all three honestly, at their strongest, so you understand why sincere people hold each one and where the disagreement actually lives. It will not tell you, at the end, which of the three to hold. That choice belongs to you, weighed with the same Spirit who has been teaching you all along.
But before any of that, there is something you need to know about how to weigh everything you are about to read — the measuring line this entire book answers to, in every part. If you take nothing else from these pages, take this.