Notes
1 Ann Byle, “LaHaye, Co-Author of Left Behind Series, Leaves a Lasting Impact,” Publishers Weekly, July 27, 2016, www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/71026-lahaye-co-author-of-left-behind-seriesleaves-a-lasting-impact.html.
2 See, for example, the website aftertherapturepetcare.com.
1 Timothy L. Smith, Called unto Holiness, vol. 1 (Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House, 1962), 114.
2 “Billy Graham’s Life and Ministry By the Numbers,” Facts and Trends, Lifeway, February 22, 2018, factsandtrends .net/2018/02/21/billy-grahams-life-ministry-by-the-numbers/.
1 “About,” Jack Van Impe Ministries, accessed October 10, 2018, www.jvim.com/about/.
2 Ibid.
3 I should add that although they are technically not always the same thing (since you can study or be interested in the theology of the end times without also subscribing to dispensationalism), colloquially, end-times theology and dispensationalism are often used interchangeably, and as such I will be using them interchangeably throughout the book.
1 See Richard Kenneth Emmerson and E. Ann Matter, “The Apocalypse in Early Medieval Exegesis,” in The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), 43.
2 Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 22.
3 Jason Boyett, Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse: The Official Field Manual for the End of the World (Orlando: Relevant Books, 2005), 35.
4 Ibid., 39.
5 Ibid., 40.
6 Ibid., 41.
7 Ibid., 55.
8 Ibid., 67.
9 See Zack Hunt, “May 21st—An Interview with the People behind the Campaign!!!” Zack Hunt, May 10, 2011, http://www.patheos.com/blogs/zackhunt/2011/05/may-21st-aninterview-with-the-people-behind-the-campaign/.
1 See Paul Ricœur, The Symbolism of Evil (Boston: Beacon Press, 1967).
2 Bob Allen, “Southern Baptists Have Lost a Million Members in 10 Years,” Baptist News Global, June 9, 2017, https://baptistnews.com/article/southern-baptists-lost-millionmembers-10-years/.
3 Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), 256–57.
1 Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 176.
2 Ibid., 178.
3 Chris Mitchell, “‘I See Us in the Middle of Prophecy!’ Mike Evans Has 30M Evangelicals Praying for Jerusalem,” Christian Broadcasting Network, December 10, 2017, www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2017/december/mike-evans-we-rsquo-re-in-the-middle-of-prophecy.
4 Rossing, The Rapture Exposed, 45.
5 David M. Halbfinger, Isabel Kershner, and Declan Walsh, “Israel Kills Dozens at Gaza Border as U.S. Embassy Opens in Jerusalem,” New York Times, May 14, 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/world/middleeast/gazaprotests-palestinians-us-embassy.html.
6 Robert P. Jones, “White Evangelical Support for Donald Trump at All-Time High,” PRRI, April 18, 2018, https://www.prri.org/spotlight/white-evangelical-support-fordonald-trump-at-all-time-high/.
7 Tara Isabella Burton, “The Biblical Story the Christian Right Uses to Defend Trump,” Vox, March 5, 2018, www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/5/16796892/trump-cyrus-christian-rightbible-cbn-evangelical-propaganda.
8 See, for example, “Climate Change: How Do We Know?” NASA, last modified October 3, 2018, https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/.
1 In an ironic or perhaps inevitable twist of fate (since the Christian writing world is relatively small), Jason and I met years later and have since become friends.
2 Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 98.
3 Origen, De Principiis, in vol. 4 of The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885), 373.
4 See Saint Augustine of Hippo, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, trans. and anno. John Hammond Taylor, Ancient Christian Writers 41 (New York: Newman Press, 1982).
5 Saint Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, trans. J. F. Shaw, in vol. 2 of A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, ed. Philip Schaff (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1887), 533.
6 Origen, De Principiis, 364.
1 John J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998), 256.
2 Pablo Richard, Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation, 2nd ed. (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1995), 34.
3 Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 117.
4 Richard, Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary, 30.
5 Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2001), 36.
6 Ibid.
7 Shelia M. Poole, “Why Evangelicals Still Line up behind Trump after Child Separations,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 21, 2018, www.ajc.com/lifestyles/religion/why-evangelicals-still-line-behind-trump-afterchild-separations/RAcnilDoh1OCDU7LbT9TrL/.
8 Rossing, The Rapture Exposed, 127.
9 Richard, Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary, 86.
10 Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination, 264.
1 “Tony Campolo,” YouTube video, 9:09, from The Hour, posted by “Strombo,” April 2, 2007, www.youtube.com/watch?v=m584z5aE4Uc.
2 See, for example, Richard B. Hays, The Faith of Jesus Christ: The Narrative Substructure of Galatians 3:1–4:11 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002).
3 Theodore Stylianopoulos, “I Know Your Works,” Apocalyptic Thought in Early Christianity, ed. Robert J. Daly (Ada, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2009), 18–19.
4 Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 4.
5 Martin Luther King, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” (address), Bishop Charles Mason Temple, April 3, 1968, Memphis, TN, transcript and MP3 audio, 43:11, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/ive-been-mountaintop-address-delivered-bishop-charlesmason-temple.
1 Since writing this in the summer of 2018, Jack and Rexella have once again revamped their set to resemble the more polished look it had previously. Jack himself also appears to be in better health.
2 “Jack Van Impe Ministries International,” Charity Navigator, last modified February 1, 2018, www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3913.
3 Adelle M. Banks, “‘Chrislam’ Comments Force Christian Broadcaster Off-Air,” Huffington Post, August 20, 2011, www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/van-impe-rick-warrenrobert-schuller_n_880741.
4 “Jack Van Impe Presents—June 9, 2018,” YouTube video, 45:32, Jack Van Impe Ministries, June 8, 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aez_u7AtHYE.
5 Ibid.
6 Pablo Richard, Apocalypse: A People’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1998), 26.