The Future History

Future History: those events still set in the future that will one day become history. Some of them are near, some distant; some clear, some obscure. The purpose of this blog is to provide a forum for discussion about where the present and the future intersect. It is the writer’s conviction that the Bible is by far the most accurate source of what is yet going to happen, and what direction that current events are going to take. We’ll start out simple, and work our way toward the difficult.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

17. Are "the end times" different than "the last days"?

This came as a question within a comment. I thought it deserved to be a full post.

Yes, different in the sense that "the last days" is infrequently used to refer to the time beginning when Christ rose from the dead (Heb 1:1-2) through the second coming of Christ. More often, however, "the last days" is used to mean a similar period as "the end times". In this sense, both of them mean the short period preceding and including the second coming of Christ, which is taken in some circles to be a period of 7 years or somewhat longer.