Like these scholars, she understands Jesus» teaching of the Kingdom within the context of early
Jewish apocalyptic beliefs, but uses this framework to explain an even wider range of data concerning Jesus and the early Jesus movement.
Yes, we all need to wake up, but some dreams are more dangerous than others, and in times of great social change and insecurity, there's nothing more dangerous than
apocalyptic beliefs.
It has been mainly at times of cultural change and social crisis, however, that
apocalyptic beliefs and millennialism have been revived in Christian thought and practice.
Scholars still debate the extent to which Jesus shared
these apocalyptic beliefs and intended his teaching about the coming Kingdom of God to be interpreted in their light.
In episode 104, from Nostradamus and his misinterpreted quatrains to the «Left Behind» publishing phenomenon and various crackpot rapture groups, Penn & Teller explore
the apocalyptic beliefs of those awaiting the end of the world.