The gist of it is that Jesus can't come back until a "revived" church takes over the world and everything in it.
Once the church has purged all evil from the world, Jesus can come back.
So, the reading that I'm familiar with, that Biblical prophecies
a. are like 'signposts' that something is coming; and,
b. are predestined and will happen whether you try to help or not,
Is completely incorrect in the dominionist paradigm. What dominion/"Kingdom Now" types actually believe are that Biblical prophecies are simply instructions on how to bring about certain events.
Because God is what, your puppet? Just waiting for you to pull on all the right strings? Let's see there's the "wars and rumors of wars" string, and the "Jerusalem" string, and all the other strings, and just pull them, and *poof*. Look, everybody, it's Jesus!
If you force these things to occur, God will do your bidding and return.
I don't get how that fits with an image of an omnipotent God, because it sure sounds more like casting a magic spell or something. Do X, do Y, and God will appear!
I don't know about you, but I'm flashing back to Kevin Costner in "Field of Dreams", and I'm pretty sure a bunch of dead baseball players aren't God.
Maybe I should take that last statement back. I do live in Red Sox Nation, now.
(For more on dominionism, check out
Kit's Concatenation or twistedchick,
Theocracy Watch,
and Brad Hicks)
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