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NewsweekEvangelical Christians overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump because they believe he'll cause the world to end.
Many have questioned why devout evangelicals support Trump, a man who has bragged about sexual assault, lies perpetually and once admitted he never asks God for forgiveness. Trump's lack of knowledge of the Bible is also well-known.
Nevertheless, many evangelical Christians believe that Trump was chosen by God to usher in a new era, a part of history called the "end times." Beliefs about this time period differ, but it is broadly considered the end of the world, the time when Jesus returns to Earth and judges all people.
Jerusalem has a central role as the city of prophecy and the place where the end of times plays out. According to the prophecy, a 1,000-year period of peace must be followed by seven years of tribulation, during which wars, disease, and natural disasters will lay waste to the earth. In the book of Revelation, Israel is described as a nation that exists during the time of tribulation, and Jerusalem's Jewish temple is resurrected during this period. The last temple was destroyed around 70 A.D, and today there is a mosque on the Temple Mount where the previous two temples are believed to have stood. Evangelicals believe that a unified Israel with control over Jerusalem will facilitate the construction of a new Jewish temple, and set the groundwork for the end of times.
ooky
(8,932 posts)for the Rapture.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)Just what kind of whacked out cult is that?
sakabatou
(42,186 posts)Blue Owl
(50,532 posts)madaboutharry
(40,238 posts)but the End Times crowd always sound like theyre in a cult. Wanting the wirld to end is really batshit nuts.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)I don't think I've heard it before.
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Crunchy Frog
(26,694 posts)That way the rest of us wouldn't have to suffer through their "end times".
Ahpook
(2,751 posts)Let it be!
Coventina
(27,217 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)the billionaires got secured areas in case.
It won't work. Global warning is from within and without.
C_U_L8R
(45,027 posts)The world is much better off with these losers. Self-rapture is a wonderful way to get there before the rush.
blm
(113,119 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I don't know if it's ignorance or misplaced deference, but when this nonsense comes up, it doesn't take the serene wisdom of a master to ask one of these gumballs, "What if you're wrong? You're making a colossal mess, causing untold pain and suffering for millions if not billions, and we still have to clean it up."
Zolorp
(1,115 posts)That's what Revelations has to say about it any way.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)That day will be darkness, not light.
It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.
Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not light pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.
Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
Amos 5