Let’s talk about “the last days” — without fear.

Because fear has been the loudest interpreter of that phrase,
and fear was never the teacher.

First, we have to ask an honest question:
When were the “last days” written about,
and who were they written to?

Most of the New Testament references to “the last days”
were written in the first century,
to people living under Roman occupation,
to Jewish and mixed communities
whose entire religious world was about to collapse.

Temple.
Priesthood.
Sacrificial system.
Identity built around law and separation.

When Peter stood up in Acts and said,
“This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel,”
he wasn’t pointing to our future.

He was saying,
This.
Now.
Here.

They believed they were already living in the last days.

Not the end of the planet —
but the end of an age.

“The last days” were never about God destroying the world.
They were about the dismantling of an old way of relating to God.

The end of mediation.
The end of external authority.
The end of worship tied to a building.

And the beginning of something entirely new.

This is where fear hijacked the language.

Apocalyptic writing uses cosmic imagery —
falling stars,
darkened suns,
shaking heavens —
not to describe astronomy,
but to describe the collapse of systems of meaning.

Kings fall.
Powers shift.
Worldviews die.

But religion turned that language into terror,
because fear is a powerful tool of control.

“If you don’t convert now…”
“If you don’t believe correctly…”
“If you’re not on the right side…”

That isn’t invitation.
That’s coercion.

And coercion has never led anyone into Christ.

Now let’s talk about the Kingdom.

Scripture never describes the Kingdom as shrinking.
It never describes it as ending.
It describes it as increasing.
Expanding.
Without end.

“Of the increase of His government and peace,
there will be no end.”

That alone dismantles fear-based end-time theology.

Because a Kingdom that never ends
is not replaced.
It is revealed.

The goal was never escape.
The goal was always union.

“Heaven on earth.”

This is where literalism misses everything.

When Scripture talks about “the earth passing away,”
the carnal mind reads it as planetary destruction.

But Adam literally means “of the earth.”
Earth is not just soil —
it is the lower, instinctual, reactive nature.

The ungoverned self.
The fear-driven self.
The survival self.

So when Scripture speaks of a “new heaven and a new earth,”
it is not talking about a different planet.

It is talking about a different person.

Heaven — consciousness, union, awareness —
coming into harmony with earth — the embodied self.

This is what happens in union.

You are no longer ruled by the earth.
You govern it.

This is why the Kingdom language is about authority,
not domination.
Stewardship,
not control.

Heaven and earth are married within you.

This is why Scripture was always pointing to the temple within.

“You are the temple.”
“I will dwell in them.”
“I will walk among them.”

But if you only read Scripture exoterically —
from the outer court,
from the carnal mind —
you will miss it every time.

The carnal mind can only read the text literally.
It can only see threat, timeline, punishment, escape.

The Spirit reads inwardly.
Symbolically.
Experientially.

And once you see it,
fear loses its power.

Because eternity isn’t endless time.
It’s timelessness.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega”
doesn’t describe endpoints.
It describes containment of all cycles.

Beginning and ending held in Presence.

There is no final countdown.
There is no cosmic panic.
There is no annihilation waiting to happen.

There is only:
I AM.

And once you touch eternity,
you don’t fear the end of anything.

Because nothing real can end.

The “last days” were never about destruction.
They were about transition.

Not punishment —
but maturation.

Not escape —
but embodiment.

Not fear —
but union.

The Kingdom was never postponed — it was planted. 
What you feared as an ending was an invitation to govern. 
Heaven and earth were always meant to meet within you. 
When union comes, fear has nowhere to live.