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The Advent Hope for Human Hopelessness: A Theological Study of the Meaning of the Second Advent for Today is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is a boom today in Christian literature dealing with biblical prophecies on the end of the world. Much of this literature treats the prophecies with either skepticism or sensationalism. The result is that many ordinary Christians are either abandoning their hope in the return of Christ, or becoming excessively preoccupied with watching for imminent events which are supposed to bring about...

Manifestation of Divine Judgment. Pestilence is generally seen in the Bible, like war and famine, as a manifestation of divine judgment upon human rebellion. A pestilence was sent on Israel as a result of David’s sin in numbering the people (2 Sam 24:13–15). Jeremiah and Ezekial repeatedly speak of pestilence as a punishment from God for Israel’s rebellion (Jer 14:12; 21:5–6; 29:17–18; Ezek 5:7, 12, 17; 6:11–12). The same concept is carried over in the New Testament,
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