Don the majority of theologians believe that the Bible teaches that Jesus can come at any moment?
A. In the last century there were two theological movements which are still important. One was German liberalism. Liberal scholars said that the Apostles taught that Jesus would return at any moment and set up a hierarchical kingdom in Jerusalem, militarily overthrowing the Roman Empire. Clearly (the liberals taught), the Apostles were wrong, Jesus did not come again, and the Bible cannot be trusted. Another movement was the so-called Darbyites, who popularized the “premillennial” return preceded by the “pretribulational rapture of the church.” This view gained widespread acceptance through The Scofield Bible. Both the liberals and the pre-mills are mistaken. The Bible does not teach the imminent coming of a physical, military, hierarchical kingdom. (At one time the Apostles may have believed that Christ was to be a military king, not a Suffering Servant, but they also at one time believed that the execution of Christ was a disruption of God’s plan. They simply didn’t get it.) The Bibl
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