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"All
Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,
correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may
be thoroughly equipped to do every good work." - 2 Tim. 3;16,17 -
Remember, the
Scripture was written for us but it was not
written to us!
Our
goal is share an alternative view of end times
prophecy. We want
to expose folks to a fulfilled view of
eschatology. We espouse all the essential doctrines of
our faith and it is not heretical to question the "Left Behind" view that has
dominated the landscape for the past 40 yrs. We have no axe to
grind and we are saddened when those who have been inculcated
with a different paradign want to brand these views as "cult-like".
Jump right in & take a fresh new look at this important topic of
fulfilled
prophecy. This may be foreign
to you but if you immerse yourself in Scripture, put away
your presuppositions, & open your heart we believe you'll be
thrilled with the outcome. Your views on this subject
will affect your politics; your view of God, evangelism; &
how you live. Most of the writer's
below appear to "correctly handle the
Word of truth" with
gentleness &
respect.
We want to answer the
following questions:
       
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What did
Jesus & the writers of the N.T. say about the "end of
time"?
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Is
it heretical to question premillennial
dispensationalism & the eschatology embedded in the "Left
Behind" series?  Is satan ruling the earth today?
What about the mark of the beast? How about the antiChrist(s)?
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Is
a 21st century rapture Biblical? Is Christ's return imminent?
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How long
must today's theologians continue to be wrong before we take a
closer look?
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If the Scripture is to be taken literallly
then why are the statements of imminency
ignored?
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Does any of this really matter? Why
should I care? Will it make a difference in my
life?
Are we nearing
the end of the world or
were they nearing the end of an
age? 
What in the
world is Preterism & how does it differ from
Dispensational Premillennialism?
But what
About...? How does it all fit?
Challenging Pop
Theology
Christian Zionism - is it
Biblical? Is physical Israel distinct from the Israel of
God?
Putting Eschatology in Context - Now
what?
History of the Roman-Jewish
War (AD 66-73) & the work of Josephus
"The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D.70, only five
years after
our epistle, was the greatest single event of a
thousand
years, and religiously significant beyond anything else
that
ever occurred in human history."
(James Burton Coffman,
Commentary on James,
1 & 2 Peter,
p. 231)
Lamentations 1:1
"How deserted lies
the city,
once so full of
people!
How like a widow is
she,
who once was great
among the nations!
She
who was queen among the provinces
has now become a
slave.
"Contrary to popular
perception, the Wailing Wall (Western
Wall)was never a part of the
Temple itself, but is
merely the exposed Southwestern portion of the massive platform (or
"Temple
Mount") upon which the
Holy
Temple once stood, and
which now supports the Dome of the Rock and the El Aqsa
mosque. The Temple
itself has long since been utterly and completely obliterated, to
the point that scholars still argue about its exact positioning on
the mount. What is known is that the Holy of Holies was on
the Western end, which is the main reason the Western Wall of the
platform became so important to later generations of Jews -- it was
as close as they could get to the Holy of Holies without actually
going on top of the mount, which the most conservative factions will
not do, for fear of inadvertently treading on the Most Holy site and
profaning it." - David Brown
 
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*Much of the information
above (as well as the content on the CECC page) will confront
presuppositions that many have long assumed to
be factual. In our humble opinion, a paradigm shift
is badly needed within the Christian community regarding these
issues. If you read "Christian
Zionists on the Road to Armageddon" you will realize what's at
stake.
Anyone questioning the
premillennial dispensational line that has dominated the
landscape since Hal Lindsey's, The Late Great Planet
Earth burst onto the scene in
1970, is at best trivialized and oftentimes is
branded a heretic. R.C. Sproul, a renowned apologist, scholar & philosopher, argues in
his book, The Last Days According to
Jesus, that we cannot play "linguistic
gymnastics" with the meaning of Jesus' words that He would return in
that generation. Let's attempt to put on 1st century glasses
when we read the New Testament and may we never discount the
power of Christ's resurrection and God's ability to transform
lives.
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