Rapture Hurricane Watch - A Study on the Doctrine of Imminence

Over the last couple of months there has been a lot of debate online over the Imminence of the Rapture and those that want to put a particular date on it. Those that hold to the doctrine of imminence have been linked to the Pharisees of Jesus’ day using the scriptures in Matthew16:1-4 and Luke 12 :54-56. The implication being that those that believe in Christ’s imminent return are somehow less faithful than those that speculate on particular dates. In this video I will attempt to explain why the Doctrine of Imminence is a good thing, how this scripture is being taken out of context and what it really means to be “watching” using modern day weather analogies.

This video ran really long and I am sorry about that. It was not scripted (heck none of my videos are fully scripted out). For my fellow content creators that like to set dates about the last 15-20 minutes of this video are for you. I have spent a lot of time looking at your comment sections and am bothered by the disappointment I am seeing in your viewer. I hope you won't hate me for this part but I think we need to take the responsibility of being a Christian content creator seriously. I know there is a game we have to play to get our videos noticed and our audiences expect but what ever next date you have in mind; don't, just don't say it. I implore you to say Christ could come back any moment, you can report on the world system linng things up for the anti-christ but please for the love of God stop setting specific dates. I read nowhere in scripture where there is a special crown for those who accurately predict the Rapture. I know you think you are encouraging people but you are selling spiritual lottery tickets and telling folks if they buy your system they win the lottery when in reality when they don't win they are getting disappointed. When the Rapture happens I am sure we will look back on God's eternal Word and see "yep I see it right here". It's like military code breaking. Without the key to the cypher it is hard to see but on this side we are missing the cypher key.