The End May Be Much Than Nearer Than We Think

INTRODUCTION {317 words}

In my adult Sunday School class on December 12, 1982, I spoke to the class about the Theory of Evolution and expressed my beliefs about how that theory is affecting our life and how it will cause the Tribulation. Remarkable as such a statement may sound, I believe it to be very much the truth. Therefore, I have written this paper to retrace the steps which led to the above lecture and also to share my findings concerning the relationship which exists between the Theory of Evolution and the Tribulation. I hope to relate in this summary not just a review of that Sunday morning class but also to provide a trail of my research. Perhaps, after reading these pages, my reader will be led to conclude, as I already have, that the end may be much nearer than we think.

Chapter One of this text will present the reason for all of my research. In trying to teach the Book of Revelation, I found several questions about the Tribulation which I could not answer but which I felt should be answered. Chapter Two will move away from the Tribulation for a bit and follow the class into a study of the Book of Genesis. However, the Tribulation will appear again based on my examination of the one Book after having studied the other. From that sequence of events, I was able to see that the accounts of these two seemingly unrelated events, Creation and Tribulation, were drawn closer and closer. In Chapter Three, the Theory of Evolution will be shown to be the catalyst which will eventually set off the Great Tribulation. Finally, in Chapter Four, the Book of Revelation will be examined again, in narrative form, to answer those questions which had initially been raised in Chapter One.