I was born into the evangelical premillenarian dispensationalist “theology of despair” and this is dead on 🎯

The historian Randall Balmer called premillenarian dispensationalism a “theology of despair” because once it caught hold at the turn of the nineteenth century, evangelical Christians could look ahead to the Rapture and give up their previously held notion that the faithful should live better lives on an earth that would shortly be crisped to bits in the fire of Apocalypse.