Reams have been
written on the subject of Bible prophecy and how it is to be interpreted. Even
within Protestantism, the number of distinct views of what scripture teaches concerning
the end times is mind-boggling and often daunting to the new Christian, so much
so that many are inclined to throw up their hands and declare that the answers
cannot possibly really matter.
But they do. And they
matter practically as well as intellectually.