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Are We In The End Times?

Are We Living in the End Times (About 100 Years or Less Left)?

  • Yes

    Votes: 340 72.6%
  • No

    Votes: 36 7.7%
  • Not Sure

    Votes: 92 19.7%

  • Total voters
    468
The mark of the beast is talked about in Revelation. The 666 on the forehead or back of the hand. And that has not happened yet.

This world is not going to just keep on going and going and going -- that's evolutionary thought. The book of Revelation says otherwise.

The eternal life in either heaven or lake of fire and brimstone Will happen in the future and That Will last for all eternity. But that will take place after this world is gone.

God is in control.
 
Is it important ?
A wise Peter once said, "Study prophecy as light that shines in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your heart." Revelation 2 tells us that those who overcome Jezebel will receive the morning star. Jezebel was the queen who killed the prophets. Today there are those who advise you not to study prophecy and that it is all about love.
Jesus gave us signs and told us to watch.
So what do you think? Does it matter?
 
First look at Revelation 13:15 - 18 // vs 16 and 18.

And then, what part am I wrong about?

And then at Revelation 20: 11 - 15 or so for context. And vs 10.
 
The mark of the beast is talked about in Revelation. The 666 on the forehead or back of the hand. And that has not happened yet.

This world is not going to just keep on going and going and going -- that's evolutionary thought. The book of Revelation says otherwise.

The eternal life in either heaven or lake of fire and brimstone Will happen in the future and That Will last for all eternity. But that will take place after this world is gone.

God is in control.

The bible is a book of history. Its history is laid out so the bad things in history are not repeated. I'd say a vast of majority of events have come to past. The mark of the beast was in the Roman Empire, Nero. Its all written from the point of view from a person of the current time and age where at that current time described a coming future, Nero, that has now come to past. The problem with the end time arguments, is those making them have no idea that they taking an assumed collective shared consciousness with God weather they realize it or not. So it begs the question. As a human being, do you have the privilege to be equal with God share a collective consciousness with him. A collective consciousness would give you access to total knowledge and truth as opposed to making educated guess about what's written in book. I'll admit, my guess is not as good your guess but I'd never assume to have God's quality of omniscience. God is sovereign. He does as he pleases and we have no influence on him.

As far as evolutionary theory, no man didn't evolve from germs into more complex organisms, BUT life once was created, it has evolved and changed over time. Not the kind of change of new organisms being brought into the world, but change that impacts the struggle to survive and continue. In the flesh, this phase of human existence, man has no desire to end itself and therefore strives to continue press on. Of course, man has made a plethora of mistakes, has come up with strange political systems that justified killing many fellow human beings that didn't tow line of political correctness of the day, but even in that context, there's a sense of we must push forward, thrive and do the best we can, even though in reality it falls short. We see this pattern though thousands of years of human history, the rise and fall of civilizations. Today's political climate is no different. We are all on the verge of another blood bath against Christianity, but like all political centralized authoritarian and totalitarian welfare systems, they all fail and men become free again, redisocver truth and rebulid and the cycle continues.

Its not that an end won't come. It just that as a human we don't know the manifestation of what that end looks likes, other than Jesus comes back. All we have is history as our guideline and unfortunately since history often repeats itself the future depending upon when one existed either didn't look too bright as often was the case or perhaps was a fleeting moment joy and splendor during a golden age of freedom.
 
The Bible is God's Word and contains a variety of types of literature / past, present and future. And, yes, a lot of Scripture Has come pass.

And, again, the mark of the beast / 666 / is a future event.

Look at 2 Timothy 3:16 "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."

Your comment "taking an assumed collective shared consciousness with God whether they realize it or not." Nope -- God is the One and Only entity who is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent.

We can take a look at the book of Genesis -- in 6 / 24 hr days, God created Everything. That included man with Adam and Eve. He'd created the perfect environment of them and all of mankind that come to be in the future. But He gave them One command to follow -- do Not eat of the tree of the knowledge of both good and evil, because if / when they Did, they Would Die. God tells Adam 1st and then we see the results of what happens with Eve and the serpent. He temps Eve with a 'suggestion' and she 'goes for it' -- after all, who Wouldn't want to be knowledgable like God. So she follows satan's idea (the serpent) and offers some to Adam and as soon as they take that bite, their 'eye's are opened and they see that they are naked and they hide. From God's presence. Up until then, they'd had great fellowship with God in that garden. God already knew what they'd done and why they were hiding. And then they began the 'blame game'. Adam and Eve tried to take care of their 'sin' with their own 'good works' / the fig leaves. But God already had made provisions and in chapter 3:21 "Also for Adam and his wife, the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them." The skins came from the killing of an animal. The first 'shedding of innocent blood for the remission / forgiveness of sin'. They were forbidden access to the tree of life -- and were put out of the perfect environment of the garden. "We" are then told of three of their children. The first incling of 'good and evil' came when their one son got jealous of the other and killed him. The knowledge of evil being carried out in a murder.

Throughout the entire Old Testament there were all kinds of sin and blood sacrifices made once a year by the priest. And then, in Gods' timing -- the Perfect Lamb of God was introduced into this world -- The Son of God, Jesus Christ. He was born into the Jewish culture / was a great teacher of that day and Also the Son of God who would be dying on the cross with our sins upon Him, He would die and be buried, and would rise again bodily on the 3rd day - -as Scripture tells us. And This would Prove that He was More , Much More than a good teacher of that day -- He was the Son of God. AFter the next 40 days , He ascended back up to heaven to the Father. And He continues to be the Son of God.

And this world's history has gone through those cycles. But that Will End. In God's timing - in another 1,000 yrs. or so , He will Again, establish a perfect environment for those who place their faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. That perfect environment is called the New Jerusalem. It is being prepared in heaven Now and will be brought down to earth by God , Himself. And, yes, some of this Does sound like a fairy tale. But it's True because it Is God's Word to us.

Jesus Christ Is coming back in the air -- at some point -- sooner than later -- to get all born again believers out of this mess in history and meet Him in the air and be with Him forever. And at some point after that , He , Jesus Christ Will come back to earth as ruler, leader for 1,000 yrs. Satan's influence will Not be here to mess with us. And after That - satan will be loosed again and create havoc. And God will intervene --Great White throne judgement. People will be either with God or caste into the lake of fire / brimstone. And this is all in God's Word in the book of Revelation.

You sound like possibly a theistic evolutionary person. A lot of evolutionary thought.

You sound like a fairly well- educated person and your bio says you're from San Antonio, Tx. I have family there. You're about 3 hrs. from my location.
 
In short,we all know this!! We are much closer to the end, then to the beginning! 2000 years ago,those who were inspired by the words they wrote( 2 Peter 1:21) believed that the end was then as well.
 
Well -- God Did tell them / inspired them/ To write those words -- God's Word is living -- not dead.

That's probably why 'we' need to be ready 'now'.
 
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If you are a true believer, it does not matter. .. I watch, I'll be ready for what ever but a nonbeliever doesn't care and would say also ask what difference does it make. The difference is I am believer and therefore, believe what the Bible preaches and everything it predicts.....If it happens in my time, maybe I will be honored to tell someone, otherwise, I am a Believer first and maybe a worrier second!
 
Luke makes mention in Luke 17:20 that Christ cometh not with observation. Meaning it happens so slow and suttle that people don’t see it till it actually happens. He said it would be like the days of Lott and Noah. There was same sex marriages happening back then. We now have same sex marriages taking place now. What’s such a abomination to God is that the marriages are taking place in house of God and a so called man of God/preacher of Gods word is preforming the wedding union. People accept the that same sex union as nothing, it’s not all that bad. When the people of Sodom and Gomorrah began having same sex marriages, that was when God had enough and burned them down. People don’t realize just how devilish the union of same sex marriages are especially when a man of God let’s this union take place in a house of God. God is not happy about it, I can assure you.
What makes it worse is that they bless it in Jesus name.
 
First look at Revelation 13:15 - 18 // vs 16 and 18.

And then, what part am I wrong about?

And then at Revelation 20: 11 - 15 or so for context. And vs 10.
I think I was pointing to a different post. Sorry bout that.
 
The Lord is pouring out his spirit on the prophets. He is giving revelation to any who will hear. He said, “Come to me and I will show you great and mighty things you know not of.” When I read that I simply believed it. Then I read where the Holy Ghost “will lead us into all truth.” And “No-one knows the day or the hour for this is something that the Father has kept in his power, BUT, you will receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you and you will be witness to all the earth.” We must read the BUTs to be able to understand. There is a revelation that leads to a greater understanding, if you are able to receive it.
We are taught from childbirth that the earth is a solid globe with a molten core and a mantel. I challenge this belief just as Edward Halley did and many of the mathematicians and scientists of the past. The earth is not a solid sphere but a hollow sphere like a basket ball. One video that should make this obvious is, "The Expanding Earth"
I contacted the author of this video and explained that this theory proves that the earth is hollow because if it expanded there must be a space inside like a balloon. He refused to even give it a thought.

Please look at this picture https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/03/12/139-new-dwarf-planets-found-in-our-solar-system.html
In the solar system we see the sun, the comets, the planets and the asteroid belts. It should be obvious that the asteroid belt was once a planet that blew up leaving the debris in the orbit that the planet once owned.

If we look below the crust of the earth we see lava flowing at one level. But we also see huge natural gas deposits and oil deposits. What if the lava was released into the area where the gas and oil are during a massive earthquake? This could cause a chain reaction that could literally blow this planet into a million pieces. It would become an asteroid belt.

Understand that at the center of the earth there is a star suspended some 3000 miles above the inner surface. The surface inside is much like our surface. Rivers, lakes, birds, bees, animals and trees and all manner of creatures we can only imagine.
Scripture says, "If not for God no flesh would survive." So read Isaiah 13:9-13. On the day of the Lord He will, “move the earth out of its place because of the wickedness of man”.

What is the earth's place?

It's orbit!

How will He move it?

Hit it with a big asteroid!
If He hits it and moves it out of its place then the star at the core will be moved out of its place and simply fall to the surface inside lighting it into an inferno. Read Rev 9:1.

Stars falling are mentioned all through scripture. Joel 2:31, Matthew 24:30 and other gospels, and Revelation 8 and 9 are a few.

In Revelation 4 the angels are weeping because no-one is found worthy to open the seals on a scroll. But then Jesus is seen and found worthy and opens the seals. What is revealed is God's plan to save the planet from total destruction.

So who is the God of this age? Satan! He is the destroyer. He is an angel and his whole purpose in being is to destroy. In the process of creation he was a necessary tool, just as heat is necessary to cook. But once the cooking is finished the fire is no longer needed and is put out. So it is with Satan. In the natural process he was needed but he is no longer needed and so will be put away. But Satan does not understand this. He believes that if he destroys the star, asteroid, that is used to save the planet he can still blow up the planet.
So if he succeeded what would happen to the star at the core? It would simply be released into space to dance before the sun, the queen of the heaven.

Now how are comets created? They look exactly like the star at the core of the earth. Is Halley's Comet the child of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?

Is the earth actually a big egg?

Who is the king who reigns in the earth's inner world who comes out in Rev. 9? Rev. 18 tells us he was, is not and yet is and will ascend out if the pit and go into perdition. He is one of seven kings. Five had fallen when John received the Revelation. One still reigned and one was yet to come who would only reign for a short time. And the eighth is one of the seven and will ascend from the pit and go into perdition. I will leave that between you and the Lord for now.

The whole book of revelation is for 2 purposes. 1) To save the planet from destruction and get rid of the angel of destruction. Secondly it is to punish the wicked for all of their evil works.
Now if you can receive all of that please continue as this relates to what I believe the Lord has shown me concerning the time we are in. Most who study last days prophecy understand that the beginning starts with a seven year covenant shown in Daniel 9:27. However, few understand that there is already a seven year covenant. This is because we have all been taught that the 7 year covenant is to be a “peace treaty”. Understand that there is no place in scripture that requires a peace treaty. In fact Jeremiah 8:11 tells us that “they cry peace, peace but there will be no peace”.

Daniel 9: 27 requires an "agreement" or a "covenant". It says the prince of the people who destroyed the temple in 70 A.D. will confirm it. The word, “confirm” can also be translated "strengthens the covenant." The word "the" here leads me to believe the covenant already existed when he strengthened it for an additional 7 years. So with that in mind look at the covenants already in place.
On January 1st, 2007, Javier Solana, the then High Representative of the European Union, signed the first of 2 covenants. The EU works with a 7 year budget and because this covenant was a promise to help finance bringing partner countries into agreement with EU policies concerning agriculture and education it had to be worked into the budget. At first they called it "The European Neighbourhood Partnership Instrument". Later they shortened it to "The Partnership Instrument" and I think recently shortened it to the "European Instrument".

The second agreement was signed on January 1st, 2014, and was strengthened to include a goal to create the 2 states of Israel and Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. A third covenant is scheduled to be signed on January 1st, 2021. This one could be the Daniel 9 covenant.

Now back to the asteroid for a minute. Tom Horn, a modern day prophet with an amazing testimony and a track record to make his prophecy believable, tells us that the Lord has told him that the asteroid called Apophis, which passes between the earth and the moon in 2029, is the asteroid mentioned in scripture as a star in Matthew 24 and Revelation 8, etc. etc. Jesus said in Matthew 24 that it would come immediately after the great tribulation period in Judea, which followed setting up the abomination that Daniel spoke of.
So we know from this that the covenant must be signed before the asteroid hits. But we run into a problem here because the 7 year EU covenant ends in Dec 2027. However, just because the 7 year covenant is made does not mean the Lord MUST come right at the end of the 7 years. What if the time was extended past the 7 years? Remember Daniel 9 and the 70 weeks. The first 69 weeks ended on the exact day that Jesus was crucified. But the final week, or 7 years, has never been fulfilled. We now know that it is because Jesus has been building his church for 2000 years. But my point is this. If god can say 70 weeks, or 490 years, but separate the final 7 years with a 2000 year pause, why can’t he do the same during the final 7 years?

One scripture that has always thrown a monkey wrench into understanding end times is Daniel 8:13 "Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spoke, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?" “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.” In Rev 11 the two witnesses are told that the outer court is given to the gentiles to be trodden underfoot for 42 months. So the only way to understand this is if the 2300 days starts the end times 7 year covenant and the 42 months ends the end times, over 2 years after the 7 years should end. We are told in verse Daniel 8:19, "because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end." So this verse must be brought into our understanding of end times.
Now keeping this in mind let’s do some math and then I will leave it with you.

From January 1st 2021, the beginning of the next 7 year covenant, to 2300 days brings us to April 20, 2027. OK let’s add the 42 months, which is 1260 days in the Jewish calendar. This brings us to October 1st, 2030. (Daniel 12 tells us of 1290 days which would bring us to October 31, 2030). The asteroid must come before this and is scheduled for pass by on Friday the 13th of April, 2029. This is 17 and one half months before the end.
Now if we take Rev 9 literally, because the earth is hollow, then we see that King Abaddon is only out here 5 months and then the Lord sends him to the lake of fire. It is 5 months from May 4th 2030 to October 1st 2030 so May 4th, 2030 should be about the time the King and locust appear. (Or if the 1290 days is used it brings us to June 3rd, 2030.) So from the time that the asteroid hits and the star inside crashes is about one year. That is plenty of time for King Abaddon to decide to mobilize and come out because his kingdom has been destroyed.

Remember the video of The Expanding Earth? The cause and effect that made the earth expand in that video still exists. Rev 8 tells us that when the star hits, “1/3 of the sun, moon and stars are smitten, so that, or causing, 1/3 of the day to shine not and the night likewise. This tells us that the earth will be spinning faster by 1/3. However, because the earth is split up into continents, this could also case the earth to expand once again opening a passage passing through to the inner world in the North Pole. The only scripture I have found to support this is in Isaiah where the mountains are brought down and the valleys filled. Have you read where it says every island will flee away?

There are 1290 days and 1335 days in Daniel 12 that fit in here somewhere. I believe at the 1260 days Christians who have survived through the final 42 months will rise up under a special anointing to bring deliverance to anyone who calls on God and has refused the mark of the beast. And the 1335 days is the blessed day of the final rapture when the Lord gathers his elect from the 4 winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
This should give you a good understanding of what is coming and where we are in time. Without a hollow earth this whole understanding falls down. But then you have to symbolize so much scripture that it just depends on your imagination. But with this revelation there is little left to the imagination. It is as it is written.

I believe that there are 2 raptures of Christians. One is around the end of the 2300 days and the other is 1335 days after the abomination is set up, at the last trumpet. Read 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 very carefully. Many who believe in a mid trib rapture see the first rapture and many of those believing in a post trib rapture see the second at the last trumpet. If they would only see both they could come together in unity. I won’t discuss the pre trib rapture. It just does not line up with literal scripture.

I hope you have been able to see this as a true revelation and how it makes total sense of what we read in scripture. God bless you in your understanding.
 
You sound like a fairly well- educated person and your bio says you're from San Antonio, Tx. I have family there. You're about 3 hrs. from my location.

I can read and write add a few numbers. Its perhaps 5% education and 95% being an INFJ. Look, listen and feel into the universe and tell me what you sense. I don't arrive to places by following a trail of bread crumbs, but by leaps and bounds, for which many times I can't explain how I got there. I let the how, for those well grounded to build the bread crumb trails and meet me, if they can have enough time and patience to listen what I'm saying. Sounds pretty arrogant, doesn't it? It seems arrogant, because I'm too different for people. I see things and people call me weird.

The one thing that hasn't happened is that Jesus' return back to earth. The time Jesus returns to earth, means you will have already met him a long time ago.
There's no doubt what the bible tells us is true, but a man over 2000 years ago wrote that from the point of view as a Roman citizen, where his world view was Rome vs. God. Rome is gone. Its the past.

God bless you. Thank you for your point of view.
 
Gods word is just as relevant now, if not more so, than in Roman days. ROME was the Devil; Rome might be gone but Satan certainly is not! JESUS return is inevitable, being a believer like you is not; best be ready now!
 
Jesus Christ says, that He is coming soon. But first the antichrist system most completely reveal.

The mark of the beast, and the one world order and one religion!!
 
I can read and write add a few numbers. Its perhaps 5% education and 95% being an INFJ. Look, listen and feel into the universe and tell me what you sense. I don't arrive to places by following a trail of bread crumbs, but by leaps and bounds, for which many times I can't explain how I got there. I let the how, for those well grounded to build the bread crumb trails and meet me, if they can have enough time and patience to listen what I'm saying. Sounds pretty arrogant, doesn't it? It seems arrogant, because I'm too different for people. I see things and people call me weird.

The one thing that hasn't happened is that Jesus' return back to earth. The time Jesus returns to earth, means you will have already met him a long time ago.
There's no doubt what the bible tells us is true, but a man over 2000 years ago wrote that from the point of view as a Roman citizen, where his world view was Rome vs. God. Rome is gone. Its the past.

God bless you. Thank you for your point of view.



What is an INFJ. Your comments are interesting.
 
Do you believe that we are in the very end times, where Jesus can return within the next 100 years or so?

I would advise using the book of Revelation as a gauge of where you think we're living in currently chronologically.

Some thoughts about the end times signs...

What will happen in the end times? (Summary)
Financial Signs of the End Times (audio)
Understanding the End Times
12 Signs of the End Times

This is meant to be a fun poll and bible discussion. Ultimately:

Matthew 24:36 - But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.
I was unable to vote but tend to say YES.

then again, people throughout history probably thought the same thing.

Even so, when we see the Sup Ct promoting homosexuality as normal and cutting out prayer in schools, which btw is an infringement on our right to practice religion... yeh... nuff said
 
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