Matthew 14:14 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."

Futurists say...
"Never in the entire course of history has the Gospel been preached in all the world to all nations as it is right now! Every nation on the face of the earth today has heard the Gospel as Jesus prophesied they would before the end comes. So if Jesus was right and the Bible is true, we are now living in the time of the End!" (Countdown to Armageddon).

Obviously, in the eyes of the futurist, the Gospel having been preached in all the world is a sure sign that the time of the end has arrived. So, it's finally happened! We are living in a time when the end could come at any moment!

But how are we supposed to believe that? It's happened before, and the end hasn't come. Or has it?

The Scripture verse often ignored is Colossians 1:23, "If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister";

The fact is, the Gospel WAS preached in all the world. That was in Paul's day, and that was 2000 years ago. Jesus said that when the Gospel is preached in all the world, the end would come. So what happened? why hasn't the end come? Why do we have to wait until the Gospel is preached in all the world a second time? And if it didn't come true that first time, how can we be sure it will happen this second time? Who knows? We have to wait a third time, or a fourth, or there's no telling how many times the Gospel must be preached before the end really comes!

This is the kind of uncertainty which the futurististic, "literal" type of Bible interpretation breeds (when they say "literal," that is not really what they mean. "Literal interpretation" means true interpretation as it is read in the Scripture. But dispensational, futuristic interpretation is seldom true interpretation. What they call "literal interpretation" is only that which supports their doctrinal preferences.
But the end did come -- not the end of the world, which is all that the futurist can see, but the end of Jerusalem, the temple, and the "house of the Jews," meaning Israel, their kingdom.


cpmac
www.tribulationhoax.com
"Neither entirely futurist, nor preterist, but entirely biblical."