Posted on 07/01/2016 2:26:42 PM PDT by amessenger4god
Previously we've discussed 20 specific signs that were foretold in the Bible indicating that Christ's coming is now imminent. This new list is a little different - these are ten indicators that we have reached the upper limits of when Christ can return. God is sovereign and we can merely speculate, but I believe there is sound reasoning behind each of these:
1. The culmination of signs
From the return of the Jews to their God-given land beginning in the late 1800s, to the rebirth of Israel in 1948 and
the recapturing of Jerusalem in 1967, the signs foretold in the Bible are all here. Over the centuries that have
ensued since Christ ascended to Heaven, dozens and dozens of people have speculated that they would witness His return
- many even setting specific dates for the parousia, yet all these speculations were lacking the myriad of prophesied
signs.
Israel is back in the land, a pseudo-global government exists (in the form of the U.N.), a spirit of lawlessness
prevails, homosexuality is rampant "as it was in the days of Lot", violence (via abortion, euthanasia, terrorism, and
war) are at unprecedented levels ("as it was in the days of Noah"), signs in the heavens are appearing left and right,
the Jews have virtually everything in place to rebuild their Temple, the technology finally exists to implement the
Mark of the Beast, the players in the Middle East are rapidly aligning in such a way as to fulfill Ezekiel 38, there
is a truly unprecedented apostasy as foretold (beginning in force around 1960), the population at large calls good
"evil" and evil "good", the world's leaders are proclaiming each and every day the damning words "peace and security" (1 Thessalonians 5:3),
and many both inside and outside the Church are saying, "where is the promise of His coming?" (2 Peter 3:4) In the words of the LORD Himself:
"Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?" says the LORD. "Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?" says your God. - Isaiah 66:9
According to the Bible the Earth is only about 6,000 years old, so with that said, now that is has been 2,000 years
since Christ's first coming, we must be approaching the climactic end of the age - else God's Word is gravely mistaken -
and I have absolute confidence that it is not.
God and ascend to Heaven on their own strength. As their tower grew, God decided it was time to intervene and
judgment came quickly - He destroyed their tower and confused their languages. The language confusion has prevailed
to this day as the very basis of national divisions.
Yet mankind is once again defying God in its attempt to resurrect a collective world government (via the U.N. and
other supranational institutions). With the advent of information technology and automated translation services,
language divisions mean less and less, and the humanistic collective continues full speed ahead without thought to
what they are doing.
Mankind, for the first time in history, is actually ascending to the heavens via aircraft and spacecraft, so combined
with mankind's globalist overreach you have an almost verbatim replay of Genesis 11.
Interestingly, the E.U. Parliament building appears to modeled on classic paintings of the Tower of Babel. Why would the E.U. powers
that be purposely design their building after something the Bible obviously condemns?
mankind continues to demonstrate its innate affinity for evil. Throwing aside moral and ethical restraints left and
right, geneticists are now combining species against God's created order and are even development three-parent babies,
and babies resulting from two fathers or two mothers. If human/animal hybrids are not created yet, they are on the
very, very near horizon. How long will God allow this to continue considering the very real possibility these
children and hybrids may not have souls? Are they made in God's image or man's image? God intervened when angels began interbreeding with the human population.
Hybrids seem to be another point of no return where judgment must ensue very quickly (see Genesis 6).
While I firmly believe He will, I think the larger point is a foreshadowing of the end-times apostasy foretold in 1
Timothy 4:1. Every generation of Christians has had its apostates, false prophets, and false teachers, but the apostasy
beginning primarily in 1960s is utterly unprecedented. Some polls and surveys indicate that less than one-half of
self-proclaimed Christians around the world still believe all the tenets of historic Christianity. Many embrace "soft
universalism", homosexuality, moral relativism, and every other vice. Genesis is largely dismissed, the resurrection
is often denied, and Christ's return is routinely questioned.
Indeed, who will maintain their faith in God's Word in the midst of this lawless world where Christianity seems to
be the object of every attack and ridicule?
until Christ and the two millennia from Christ until now, you arrive at almost exactly 6,000 years. Revelation 20
promises a coming 1,000 year reign of Christ before eternity. This pattern is unmistakably related to the six days of
work and one day of rest as the weekly pattern God created in Genesis 1. Since we are literally within years, maybe
even months, of the end of 6,000 years, what should that tell you?
and Evil. God banished them from the Garden of Eden and sent an angel to guard it from them so that they
could not eat from the Tree of Life and live forever in a fallen state (Genesis 3:22-24).
Humanity remains in its fallen state and now geneticists and scientists believe we are on the verge of reversing or
even ending aging altogether. There is even a U.S. presidential candidate who promises his voters immortality. I
think science may be nearing a point where humanity may be able to replicate the effects of eating from the Tree of
Life, so God will most certainly intervene.
years passed before God brought judgment upon Israel after bringing them into the land. A similar time passed before
God brought a complete judgment upon the Canaanites. Sodom, though, had reached such an incredible level of depravity that
God brought judgment after only a few hundred years.
Consider these timespans. We are now nearing 2,000 years since Christ's death and resurrection. We are now living in
the longest time period between judgments in the history of the world and God's Word promises that another global
judgment will most certainly come (2 Peter 3:5-7). He is not distant or sleeping. He has planned the end from
the beginning and this wicked world is living on borrowed time. Get on the ark while there is still time.
this fact (though not all), but the Lord's words will not change. This age had a definite beginning and it will have
a definite end. The eternal future belongs to God and His people, not a collective, godless, fallen humanity.
I predict you’re wrong.
The Bible says you can’t predicted it and times have been much worse.
Muslims hordes sacking Rome, at the gates of Paris and Vienna...
They have been saying this for over 1000 years
If one believes that war is at an “unprecedented” level, they have no understanding of history.
Thief in the night.
And no, the Bible most certainly does not say the earth is 6000 years old.
My opinion is that Jesus returns before 2050 and perhaps even much sooner than that.. Since Israel became a nation again in 1948 the same generation plausible would seem no greater than 100 years.
I’m thinking October 3, Rosh Hashanah.
“I will be with you always, to the very end of the age.”
I agree... He is already here. People just don’t know enough to look within to find Him.
Isaac Newton, IIRC, wrote that the second coming would occur in 2060, and he was smarter than I am...
I am 62. I will see Jesus some time in the next 44 years, whether or not Newton was correct. I dearly look forward to it.
Think about it. Jesus will come back in our “lifetime”. No one is guaranteed a next breath on this earth. . .and everyone will bow to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ but not everyone will live an eternity in Heaven. Everyone should be ready for His return.. .that’s the bottomline. . .the only line. If you care for your friends and loved ones, their relationship with Jesus should be the topic of the day. http://www.patburt.com/
The ones who seem most oblivious to the times are so called Christians and many of them don't want Christ to return because they're having too much fun down here.
I say come quickly Lord Jesus!
Just stop it.
We know there will indeed be an end time, for the Bible tells us so. Are we in it? Hard to say, and I won’t venture a guess. All I can say is, if these are not the end times, I surly do not want to be around for them.
Maybe. Maybe not
I proclaim you to be a blasphemer since you are pretending to be God.
No man knows the day nor the hour
Oh, woe is us. We have it worse than anybody in the history of the world. We are so much more important than anybody else in history that God is going to end the world because we are here and have it so bad.
IBTZ
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