{"id":45326,"date":"2015-06-30T17:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45326"},"modified":"2015-06-30T17:01:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:01:56","slug":"reverse-psychology-sort-of-with-an-apocalyptic-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45326","title":{"rendered":"Reverse psychology, sort of &#8212; with an apocalyptic vengeance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; negative hope in light of an eventual (hoped for) positive outcome ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45331\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hairpin-with-bend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45331\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hairpin-with-bend.jpg\" alt=\"Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 3.0\" width=\"600\" height=\"195\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hairpin-with-bend.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hairpin-with-bend-300x98.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-45331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hairpin with bend &#8212; photo credit <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bobby_pin.jpg\">Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The particulars here have to do with the SCOTUS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/14pdf\/14-556_3204.pdf\">ruling on same-sex marriage<\/a>, but what interests me is the combination of eschatological expectation and the wish for the world to &#8220;slide from bad to worse&#8221; morally speaking..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/scotus-and-premillennialism\/\">Baptist pastor <strong>Clint Arthur<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It isn\u2019t easy for Christians to identify a silver lining to Friday\u2019s ruling that is worth celebration; unless you\u2019re a premillennialist.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas postmillennialism believes that Christ will return to earth when the gospel has triumphed over unbelief and conquered the globe, premillennialists aren\u2019t holding their breath. Premills teach that the world will slide from bad to worse until it is so irrecoverably bad that only Jesus can fix it. That will be his cue to return and establish a rule of peace, righteousness, and sanity in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>So, it is on days like this that I read with relish passages that others may dismiss as pessimistic. I prefer to see regress in society as a welcome sign that the Bible is accurate, and that Jesus is coming soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From both &#8220;rhetorical pattern&#8221; and &#8220;eschatological studies&#8221; points of view, that&#8217;s quite something to ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; negative hope in light of an eventual (hoped for) positive outcome ] . ** The particulars here have to do with the SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage, but what interests me is the combination of eschatological expectation and the wish for the world to &#8220;slide from bad to worse&#8221; morally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[622,526,497,840,626,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalyptic","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-paradox","category-patterns","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45326"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45337,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326\/revisions\/45337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}