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.
Do I believe we are in the end times - Yes but the end times started when Jesus was on earth 2000 years ago.
Another question may be nearer the Truth,
are in 'The Latter Days' of the End Times?
- The most important single item to confirm we are in the Latter Days is, the Jews returning and on the
14 May 1948 Israel became a state again. This I believe is the KEY that opened the door to the latter days.
- Jesus uses the description of a pregnant woman to describe these latter days.
The Signs of the Times and the End of the Age
Matthew 24:3-14
3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
4 Jesus answered:
“Watch out that no one deceives you"
5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.
6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
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All these are the beginning of birth pains.
9“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Birth pangs come at the end of a pregnancy as we know, but as we also know, God's people are in the picture, and they didn't come into the picture until the Jews started to return home and Israel was declared a state again. It would appear then that 14 May 1948, when Israel was declared a state again, that the latter days of the end time had been conceived.
With this in mind, and that a pregnancy usually has three stages, the initial stages, little is seen, the middle stage things start to show and continue to do so, the latter stage the birth pangs JUST BEFORE THE BIRTH, in this case just before our Lord's Return in Glory.
We can also compare the changes over the last 72 years, from 1948 things didn't change much, didn't show much, as in the first stage of pregnancy. From 1960 changes began to show and the changes continued to increase! Free speech, free sex, skirts below the knee went above, then further up, then further up. Bodies were flaunted and the young didn't give a dam. From that period as we have seen, things have got worse, hearts have hardened, there are as Jesus warned people claiming to be Jesus. There have been wars and rumours of wars, Israel alone has experienced 15 wars since 1948 and threats causing rumours of wars have increased, from Iran, Syria, and other neighbouring countries. Records show that earth quakes in the last 100 years have increase in number and severity, more so in the last 30-50 years and there has been raging water in diverse places, which is also in scripture, all over the world.
Other scriptures relating to the latter day period.
1 Cor 6:9-10
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
Romans 1:26-32
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
1 Timothy 1:10
The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
All these and more have got worse or increase since 1960, when the signs of a pregnancy in the example show and increase.
The birth pangs are clearly evident, but as Christ said, the end is not yet, but there is little else left to come, other than things continuing to get worse, meaning that the seven year tribulation period is probably closer than we realise. The seal on the first scroll may have already been broken and the scroll opened.
Are we in the last 100 years was the question, we could, I believe, be in the last 10!
O Come Lord Jesus.
I love this song, it is powerful.
