Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Our Obsession With the End of Days xi
Chapter 1 Why There's So Much Debate Over the End Times 1
Chapter 2 The Rapture and Whether It's Biblical 11
Chapter 3 Digging Deeper: Pre-Tribulation Rapture Theory 21
Chapter 4 Other Ideas About the Rapture 27
Chapter 5 The Tribulation 35
Chapter 6 The Antichrist 44
Chapter 7 The Debate Over the Nature of the Beasts 51
Chapter 8 The Great Millennial Debate 64
Chapter 9 Understanding Scripture and Eschatology 78
Chapter 10 Understanding Revelation 89
Chapter 11 Preterists 94
Chapter 12 The End Times Are Upon Us, According to Some 105
Chapter 13 Gog, Magog, and the Reestablishment of Israel 112
Chapter 14 Israel's Role in the End Times 128
Chapter 15 Syria's Current Unraveling and Its Tie to Biblical Prophecy 140
Chapter 16 The Blood Moons Battle 145
Chapter 17 Jesus's Second Coming in Light of His First 153
Chapter 18 The Failure of End-Times Date Setting 159
Chapter 19 Where People Stand on the End Times 166
Chapter 20 Where Protestant Pastors, Priests, and Ministers Stand on the End Times 171
Conclusion 177
Notes 184
