Lenny Kravitz: "Fear"

I'm sure that if this song was put on a cassette and brought back in time to 1970, nobody would guess that it had been recorded more than twenty years in the future. This solo artist has mastered that 1970 vibe which you can hear in this song.

We who believe in Christ mustn't live in fear but faith. As Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:7 (Bible in Basic English), "For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control."

This is why I oppose some Christians' morbid fascination with figuring out whom the Antichrist will be. Not only is it a waste of time but non Christians scoff whenever predictions of "Armageddon" fail to happen.

I believe that doomsday prophets abuse the last book of the Bible. Revelation 1:1 and 2 (BBE) explains the purpose of the book. "The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him so that his servants might have knowledge of the things which will quickly take place: and he sent and made it clear by his angel to his servant John; Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw."

To those who figure the Antichrist will come in our near future, I pose this question. How could first-century Christians know whom the twenty-first century Antichrist would be?

Please take note of Revelation 1:3(BBE) about when these things predicted in the book will happen. "A blessing be on the reader, and on those who give ear to the prophet's words, and keep the things which he has put in the book: for the time is near." The only event yet to happen is Christ's return.

Some preachers claim that the word "near" means two millennia. Why then is this letter sent to seven first-century churches if all the horrors written in it would happen to us?

Remember also that these strange creatures and disasters reference Old Testament verses. Believers back them knew the references, just as we understand references to modern events. For example, before 2001, 9 1 1 was merely the emergency phone number.

If the great return of our King of Kings hasn't happened by Thursday, I'll post about machines and how they seem to run our lives.