parousia70 said in post 20:
Unless of course it's a modern day Newspaper or Television report....THEN you'll create entire threads that rely on their information.
Christian futurism considers today's news articles regarding such things as geopolitics and technology in order to help believers consider different ways for how exactly the never-fulfilled, yet still understandable, and almost entirely literal, highly detailed prophecies in Revelation chapters 6 to 18 might be fulfilled in our future. For example, Christians at any time in the past could understand Revelation 6:4-8 refers to a horrible, literal war which will start the tribulation, and which, with its aftermath of famines and epidemics, will end up killing 1/4 of the world. They could understand this without having to know, for example, what nation will start the war, or what weapons will be employed in the war. What Christian futurism does is consider these things.
For another example, Christians at any time in the past could understand Revelation 13:14-15 refers to a literal image (Greek: "eikon", something made in the likeness) of the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast"), which will appear to be alive, which will speak, and which people will have to worship or be killed. Christians in the past could understand this without having to know, for example, whether the image will be 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional (or both), or what it will be made of, or how it will be made to speak and appear to be alive. What Christian futurism does is consider these things.
