{"id":643,"date":"2021-01-20T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=643"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:33:08","slug":"confusion-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Confusion \u0131n the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>There is much confusion and disagreement over the interpretation of prophecy.&nbsp;<\/em><strong><em>Is it possible to build a consensus on what the Bible teaches?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI avoid prophecy, it is so confusing.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>That is a common response to raising the subject of the End Times with other Christians. We as Christians are all supposed to believe in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, even to consider it our&nbsp;<em>\u201cblessed hope\u201d<\/em>. The Nicene Creed states,&nbsp;<em>\u201cHe will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end\u201d<\/em>. The very familiar words of Acts 1: 11 tell us,&nbsp;<em>\u201cThis same Jesus, who was taken up to heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go to heaven.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>The return of Jesus is a foundational doctrine of the Christian faith and yet it is a subject which many avoid and few churches teach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much confusion and disagreement over the interpretation of prophecy.&nbsp;Is it possible to build a consensus on what the Bible teaches? \u201cI avoid prophecy, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,11],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}