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I grew up in a Christian home.  From my earliest days I remember attending church and one of the most prevailing doctrines that we were taught was of the “rapture” and “end times”.  We were inundated with warnings of the end that was surely coming at any moment.  I remember one radio preacher that would sign off his radio program by proclaiming that “He could come today”.   Don’t get me wrong – the Lord Himself will appear one day on this earth.  He is coming again.  But what are we to make of all the predictions that have come and gone and still no end, no return of the Lord?  What are we to do?  How are we to respond?

First we must determine what is truth from fantasy?  A fantasy is defined as – an extravagant and unrestrained imagination, a conjured up sequence fulfilling a psychological need, a supposition based on no solid foundation.  When you survey these definitions, it is not hard to see that we have a lot of fantasy interspersed in our “end time theology” throughout the church.   We have interpretations of scriptures that are “extravagant and unrestrained” in that they do not line up with Biblical truth.  They absolutely are “fulfilling a psychological need” that we have of wanting to believe that God will rescue us out of this world so that we will not have to experience any discomfort or anything that even comes close to causing us to have to face fearful and changing times.  We truly have no viable “solid foundation” upon which to build our lives.

What most of us have been taught over the years has caused us to embrace nothing more than a fairy tale theology.  It’s a fairy tale because we have only seen our life as one that exists to go to heaven when we die, or, that God is going to get us out of here before anything bad happens and we will live “happily ever after” in heaven while the world “goes to hell” because that’s where they deserve to go.  There has to be more to our life than this in the intention of God.

Our fantasies benefit only us and anyone who dares to think otherwise we have rejected. This teaching is erroneous and must be corrected.  In the infamous words from the X-Files, “the truth is out there” and it is found by opening our hearts and minds to hear what the scriptures teach in the light of the purpose of God clearly revealed by Jesus and the apostles of the New Testament.  They did not teach most of the things being presented today as the revealed will of God for mankind.  The future belongs to Jesus, the King of kings.  The future is bright because the Light and the church is His light in the earth today.  He doesn’t intend to “rapture” us from the earth to leave it to His enemy.  This is the time for the church to establish the kingdom of God that was initiated with the first coming of Jesus.  These are the days to shine in the darkness!  Let’s give up fantasy and fairy tales and be a part of the great purpose of God to reveal His King and His kingdom.  Selah.