02/04/2004: "Isn't it funny how..."

Whenever I read some book about the Christian faith, that SAME DAY some new opportunity comes up to use the knowledge/experience I got from the book. Lately I've been reading a book called "Will Catholics be Left Behind?" It's a book about the Catholic position on the premillinial-dispensationalists and their belief in the Rapture, the End Times and their general view of salvation history.

This morning when I turned on the TV to watch Armstrong and Getty (a call-in radio show that is shown on TV here in the Sacramento area) I turned it on about 10 minutes too early and caught the tail end of one of the early morning Christian Evangelist shows. They were talking about the End Times and using the exact same arguments that the book was warning against. "We are living in the End Times and have been ever since Israel was re-created as a nation."

Somehow that doesn't jive with me and Matthew: "Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour" (Matt 25:13) Which, by the way, they would likely interpret to mean that we can know the month and the year.

Makes me what to find more time for reading!