“Outside the city are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, who are sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood” - Rev. 22:15.

Reading Revelation as the coming future and not already happened means you’ll miss Revelation’s hope.
Let me explain.
In AD 1000, Christians sold all their possessions and said their goodbyes, waiting for Jesus's Second Coming and His millennial reign. Concentrating on a future event (that didn’t happen), these millennial believers missed the power of living in a broken, wicked world as people who have already entered the Kingdom of Christ.
Christians repeatedly predict Jesus’ return during bouts of world anxiety, famine, pandemics, plagues, world wars, and a host of other problems this world faces. They justify their predictions for the end time by saying,…
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