![]() ![]() ![]() Secularism within the government and in public life, he said, has led to anarchy-and the “stolen” 2020 elections are the proof. ![]() But he said the pandemic had nothing to do with these beliefs. As someone who hosts the major annual conference debating these apocalyptic prophecies, he understands their perspective. Others, though, are eager to believe that Bible prophecies are already being fulfilled. We are living in the last days of the “church age,” he believes, but are not yet in the time of tribulation. Ice believes we live in unholy times and looks forward to the Second Coming. Ice is an evangelical and personally believes in a coming rapture, but he isn’t as eager as many other Christians to read the signs of its work in motion. Tommy Ice, a retired theology professor and the executive director of the Pre-Trib Research Center, hosts an annual conference discussing the pretribulational rapture, which refers to a rapture-or disappearance of-the faithful, an event that in his belief will occur before a seven-year period of hellish events on earth. Why, at this moment, when the Christian right should be feeling more empowered, would the end of the world be so trendy? But it seems an odd time for doomsday fervor, given the ascendancy of the religious right in American politics and the current makeup of the Supreme Court. ![]()
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