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Reason 1: Every generation assumes it is the last generation

End of the World Predictions and Why They're Wrong 00:39:07 – 00:41:14

First of seven reasons people fall for end-times predictions.

Throughout church history, people have believed they lived in the final generation. Example: Martin Luther identified the Pope as the Antichrist partly because he believed he was in the last days. Mike candidly shares that as a young believer he wondered whether to go to school or plan for marriage given the imminence of the rapture. The problem is practical: people forgo planning (college, retirement, family) based on a belief that every prior generation also held and was wrong about. This generates a question: why are you right when they were wrong?

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