I'll Fly Away? | The Deep End | Episode 5

What do the Rapture, the Antichrist, giant dragons, Left Behind, mansions in heaven, a thousand-year reign, and hiding under your bathtub have in common?

Apparently, they’re all part of trying to figure out how this whole thing ends.

In this episode of The Deep End, we wade into the wonderfully uncomplicated world of end-times theology. Is the Rapture actually in the Bible? Could Jesus return at any moment? Is Revelation a play-by-play of events still to come—or have we been reading someone else’s mail like it was tomorrow’s newspaper? And when Jesus returns, are Christians leaving earth for heaven…or is the Bible’s ending actually about heaven coming here?

Along the way, we tackle the tribulation, the millennium, the Antichrist, Revelation’s seriously strange imagery, why Christians disagree about almost all of it—and why some of us grew up secretly hoping Jesus would wait until after the game to come back.

But underneath all the charts, timelines, beasts, trumpets, and arguments is something we may have missed:

The end of the biblical story isn’t supposed to scare Christians. It’s supposed to give us hope.

Jesus wins. Death loses. Creation is restored. And God dwells with humanity.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.

And we feel fine.