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Rev. Graham: ‘As I Read the News, I Can’t Help But Wonder if We're in Last Hours’
CNS news ^ | 9/4/14 | Michael W Chapman

Posted on 09/05/2014 11:04:14 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Rev. Franklin Graham, head of the international Christian aid group Samaritan’s Purse and son of world-renowned preacher Billy Graham, said that given all the “bad news” about the killing of Christians by Muslims in some countries, and attacks on Christians by the media and the government even in America, he cannot “help but wonder if we are in the last hours before our Lord Jesus Christ returns.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bible; christian; eschatology; franklingraham; god; preach; prophecy; truth
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To: CatherineofAragon

Interesting...my wife and I have always found the drive up and down I-81 away from urban centers as one of the most peaceful areas between soviet Red Hampshire and Tennessee...


41 posted on 09/05/2014 11:53:23 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Jesus came, then returned to his place. He said after 2 days he would revive the Nation of Israel and then return.

I don't think Jesus will look too favorably upon a nation that provides government-funded abortions to any woman for virtually any reason.

42 posted on 09/05/2014 11:53:36 AM PDT by gdani (Every day, your Govt surveils you more than the day before)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Billy may live to experience the Rapture yet.


43 posted on 09/05/2014 11:55:31 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama: The turd that won't flush.)
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To: eyedigress
That will take some explaining. As the US goes, so goes the world.

If you want to talk about truly catastrophic times, I'll offer something like The Black Death, which wiped out 1-2 million people across the planet, over some crazy idiots currently in the Middle East.

44 posted on 09/05/2014 11:57:12 AM PDT by gdani (Every day, your Govt surveils you more than the day before)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sorry. The amillinneal and post-millinneal views are completely out of touch with Scripture. There are just too many Confessions between the pages of Scripture, and the hearers of the Word of God. The church is not going to overwhelm evil—that’s Christ the Lord’s mission.


45 posted on 09/05/2014 11:59:10 AM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: gdani
As I Read the News, I Can’t Help But Wonder if We're in Last Hours’

Tell the good reverend to suck it up.

The world has been in much worse shape countless times.

And it will get better again in just over 2 years.

2 Peter 3:3 (NASB) Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,
46 posted on 09/05/2014 12:00:21 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama: The turd that won't flush.)
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To: gdani

correct, that is why the tribulation period (last 7 years) concerns Israel and not the Church.


47 posted on 09/05/2014 12:00:30 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: gdani

Ebola...coming to a town near you...


48 posted on 09/05/2014 12:01:18 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: gdani

The Black Death in Numbers

From 1347 to 1350 the Black Death struck Europe:

· In less than two years 30% to 60% of the population of Europe was wiped out.

· Nearly 75 million died in western Europe alone.

· 18000 people died in London in the course of three years.

· Almost 1/3 of the worlds population had died from the plague by 1350.

· Estimates go from 100 to 200 million deaths worldwide.

· The mortality rate of the bubonic plague was 30% to 75% percent.

· Within 1-7 days the first symptoms occurred, including fever, nausea, headache and an infection the lymph nodes.


49 posted on 09/05/2014 12:01:59 PM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box then 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I saw Drew Carey live, he started the show with, “Every time I watch the news I have out the Book of Revelations...and start checking things off.”


50 posted on 09/05/2014 12:10:13 PM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: Old Yeller
2 Peter 3:3 (NASB) Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,

II Timothy 1:7 - For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

51 posted on 09/05/2014 12:11:07 PM PDT by gdani (Every day, your Govt surveils you more than the day before)
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To: SoFloFreeper

..having just taught through Daniel one thing is certain in my mind, Israel is God’s timepiece and warning sign to the world. Never have I seen so many things that point to Christ coming for His church , followed by that 70th “seven”’ followed by the Second Coming...


52 posted on 09/05/2014 12:13:36 PM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Only God knows when the last hour is. But it doesn’t hurt to be ready.

If I were to compare news headlines, I would judge that things were a lot worse in 1863, 1932 and early 1942 than they are today.

In my lifetime, things were worse when Jimmy Carter’s rescue attempt of the hostages in Iran failed. Lines to get gas, horrible inflation and high unemployment and the start of modern Islamic radicalism.

Yet we are still here.


53 posted on 09/05/2014 12:23:42 PM PDT by kidd
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To: stanne

I agree the world has experienced worse horrors throughout history than what we are seeing now. However, I don’t think we have ever seen the level of perversion we have today, and the total acceptance of it.


54 posted on 09/05/2014 12:41:32 PM PDT by KMG365
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To: SoFloFreeper

““As I read the news, I can’t help but wonder if we are in the last hours before our Lord Jesus Christ returns to rescue His church and God pours out His wrath on the world for the rejection of His Son,” said Rev. Graham “

Sadly he does not realize that the fallacious pre-trib theory embraced by most modern Christians is misleading and incorrect.

The pre-trib idea is relatively new to the Church era.

If you have time please see my blog

http://figtreeshadow.blogspot.com/


55 posted on 09/05/2014 12:43:19 PM PDT by Catechuman
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To: avenir

Thanks, avenir...you, too.


56 posted on 09/05/2014 12:44:11 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: who knows what evil?

Soviet Red Hampshire.

*snicker*


57 posted on 09/05/2014 12:44:43 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: SoFloFreeper

For those interested in discussion with pagans the original site is going ballistic. Jesus is being attacked.


58 posted on 09/05/2014 12:48:39 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: kidd

I agree that 1863 WAS a similar time; the moral quality of the nation had ebbed to tremendous low.

The economy always has ups and downs. I am not talking mere economics here. I am talking morality.

I think the moral compass is completely off the original setting. Not quite 180, but maybe 170 or 160.

Consider this nation (by which I mean the government or a significant percentage of the population—certainly not every individual) now applauds dependency upon government, punishes achievement, enables infanticide, and celebrates perversion. In some quarters, this behavior and the dark spirituality that enables it is endorsed by so-called Christians and Christian churches.

1863 indeed.


59 posted on 09/05/2014 12:57:48 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: gdani

On the other hand, the Black Death is not a moral issue. Islam is.


60 posted on 09/05/2014 12:59:53 PM PDT by chesley
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