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ANALYSISRODNEY KENNEDY | MARCH 2, 2022
When "Russia" and "war" are referenced in a similar sentence, all the premillennial, delight, hardship, Armageddon devotees are fully on guard.
The Rapture Index (indeed, there is something like this) is at 186. The untouched high for the list is 188. The list tracks 45 classifications. One of those classes is Gog.
In the code language of the bliss adherents, "Gog" is Russia. Most mainline Christians feign exacerbation at the notice of the joy and the predictions of the apocalypse. This is an unmitigated error, on the grounds that close to a portion of the individuals from Congress are end-time bliss devotees.
"Their electorate's esteemed convictions might prompt the most perilous and disastrous unavoidable outcome ever," as per Glen Scherer in "The Godly Must Be Crazy." Estimates of the quantity of joy devotees to the United States differ from 60 million to 100 million. From his now timeless vantage point, Scherer might see that the genuine have flown over "the cuckoo's home."
Dispensationalism and Pat Robertson
As foundation, consider a rundown of what the delight devotees are teaching: Dispensationalism is a final days convention imagined in the nineteenth hundred years by the Irish-Anglo scholar John Nelson Darby. Dispensationalists offer a "exacting" translation of the Bible that offers a definite order of the looming apocalypse. Any conflict that incorporates Russia, dispensationalists say, offers indications of the bliss. While the other world observers Russia's endeavor to break world harmony, energized evangelicals think it is the start of the end and the euphoria.
Pat Robertson
TV preacher Pat Robertson, a blurring voice from days gone by, claims God has guided Vladimir Putin to attack Ukraine to utilize the country as a "organizing ground" to send off an assault on Israel and achieve the last days.
Robertson is one of those evangelicals who acknowledge God for offering technique to horrible dictators like Putin to achieve God's objective. While Robertson concedes Putin is insane, he actually accepts Putin is paying attention to and being coordinated by God. In Robertson's "caught by delight hallucinations" mind, Putin isn't exactly pursuing Ukraine. His genuine objective is Israel.
Robertson demands that Putin will before long attack Israel, Iran, Turkey and Bulgaria. Then he rushes to make the judgment call that generally invigorates bliss devotees. He demands that Ezekiel 38 and 39 contain all that individuals need to realize about what will before long occur. Robertson defines a straight boundary from Ukraine to Israel.
"While Robertson concedes Putin is crazy, he actually accepts Putin is paying attention to and being coordinated by God."
The TV preacher demands, "that region is all going to be prepared against Israel in the last days, and God says, 'I will manage it.' So, you can take a gander at your guide and read your papers, you can pay attention to your news, yet know about a reality that God is bringing to pass what he forecasted quite a while back through his worker, Ezekiel."
An invigorated Robertson pronounces, "Everything' there. It will work out. So I simply say, that's surfacing."
Robertson wraps up his contention with an outline: "Is Putin insane? Is it safe to say that he is frantic? Indeed, maybe. However, God says, 'I will place snares in your jaw and I will bring you into this fight regardless of whether you like it.' And he's being constrained after the move into the Ukraine. He's being constrained to move once more, to get land span and across the Dardanelles with Turkey. Also, watch what will occur straightaway. You read your Bible since it's happening."
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