JOEL 2 GENERATION

There are a couple of common "Eschatologies" (doctrine of the End Times) that most Christians are familiar with - one is known as "Futurism" (which would include Mike Bickle and IHOP, Calvary Chapel and the Left Behind Series) and another is called "Preterism" (which is being advocated now by Bethel Church in Redding, R.C. Sproul and C. Peter Wagner as well as many "Amillenialist" scholars). Futurism argues that the majority of the prophecies in Scripture will be fulfilled in the "future" (i.e. Daniel, Matthew 24 and Revelation). Preterism argues that most (if not all) of those same prophecies were fulfilled in the "past". A third position is called "Historicism" which may not be so well known. This position views those same prophecies as being fulfilled "throughout Christian history". Since this 3rd position (which was the dominate Protestant one at one point), is not well known, I have included before ...

this past weekend has been a crazy time of Kingdom activity. we had a team here from Bethel Church, and so it is actually very challenging to even begin to try and remember all that we saw the Lord do. We did 4 church services, a couple of house meetings and outreach too. I will comment briefly on the outreach because it fits best with the vision of what we are trying to advocate, model and encourage as a Joel 2 Generation culture. a group of 20 of us broke up into 6 or 7 teams and headed out into a mall for only 1 1/2 hours of treasure hunting/power-prophetic "spilling". What amazed me when we gathered later to recount the works that God performed and debrief a little bit was just how many miracles of healing, and accurate words of knowledge and prophecy happened in such a short period of time. These are truly days of such increase and breakthrough and so much of the Body of Christ seems (at least to me) to be unaware of it. the group I was with saw headaches healed (a c...