Rapture Fever

CONCLUSION
. . . ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ~e ought to be teachers,
ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the
oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of
strong meat. For evay one that useth milk is unskilful in. the word of
righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that
are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised
to discern both good and evil (Heb. 5:11-14).
It is my contention that Christians today are in the same
spiritual condition as the readers of the Epistle to the Hebrews
in the author’s day. They have become theological milk-drinkers
who are content with the ABC’s of faith. They are unskilled
in the word of righteousness. They are out of shape judicially.
There is a reason for this. They hate three-quarters of the
Bible: the law and the prophets. Hating God’s law with all their
heart, they also hate the thought of victory, which has been
promised by God to those cultures that obey God’s revealed law
(Deut. 28:1-14). Hating victory in history, they necessarily have
come to regard themselves as principled losers in history.
“Who is on the Lord’s Side?” So asks a popular Protestant
evangelical hymn. The correct answer, as far as modern evangelicalism
teaches in public, is this: htitotical losers. For over two
centuries, Protestant evangelical have seen themselves as members
of a culturally impotent Church and a religiously neutral
civil order. They have had far greater faith in the civil order -