Are the End Times Near? Frank Turek Warns, Reveals Why Second Coming Is 'Veiled'

Описание: As Christians ponder whether America is experiencing revival, apologist Frank Turek is digging a bit deeper, noting it's essential that people don't just get "spiritual renewal but [that] they become disciples." He also addressed some of the confusion and date-setting that sometimes arises in theological discussions about the end times.

"How do you make disciples? How do you make people that actually follow Jesus — not just people that say, 'I got fire insurance, I'm going to heaven?'" he told the Bible Bros Podcast. "Jesus didn't say, 'Come make believers.' He said, 'Come make disciples.' And that means carrying your cross, and doing things that you might not normally want to do. It means denying yourself and following Him, and that's hard." With so much spiritual activity underway, Turek was asked whether it's possible for both chaos and renewal to occur in America at the same time. This conversation gets especially interesting when it comes to speculation about the end times.

"I would venture to say that no one knows when Jesus is coming back, and my source on that is Jesus," he said. "When people keep saying, 'Oh, yeah, I know He's coming back. Oh, things are getting worse. It's going to happen' ... I say, 'Hold, hold, hold on. Jesus said no one knows the day, the hour, the times, nor the season. I'm coming like a thief in the night.'" Turek's point is that no one knows when Jesus will return, and he believes that end-times specifics are "veiled for a reason."

"Just like Jesus' first coming, Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2 that if these things were known, that the forces of this world never would have crucified the Lord of glory," he said. "When you look back on Old Testament prophecy in the light of the New Testament, you go, 'Oh, now I see how all these passages fit together. But looking forward, if you're in the Old Testament, you don't really know this is going to happen." He continued, "And if Satan knew that murdering Jesus was actually Satan's defeat, he never would have instigated it. And so the Lord kept that message coming veiled for a reason."

Turek said not knowing the day and hour also prevents people from assuming they have time, living however they choose, and then simply planning to "repent at the last minute." Watch him explain.

I'm trying to, like, be a light like Matthew 514, who I am a light in this world, and you can't hide it. And so how it's affected my life is just by basically using my platform periodically to to express my faith. I don't know if that's had an impact on me as like a commodity, but I can tell you it has had an impact on people who've come up to me in the street and said, like, hey, that's really cool.

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