Timing is persistently troublesome and problematic.
My theory on that is that God is trying to nudge, leade etc. as many folks into awareness and into His Kingdom as possible and draws some aspects out as long as He can given other priorities.
Certainly Shrillery Klintoon would like to see the gestapo tyrannical global government firmly in place ASAP. And would work personally to make that happen.
Satan would like to be destructive to the max ASAP. So we know the forces on that end would rush things if they could get away with it—including the “ET” forces.
But God has His own timing.
Part of me thinks that the only reason THE FATHER ONLY knows the specific time of Christ’s return is because that leaves Him some flexibility that would be gone if even Holy Spirit or Christ knew as well. Maybe a crazy notion. Maybe not.
In any case, a LOT of trends along these lines hava normal peak times . . . windows of flow during which given degrees, heights, maximums etc. can be reached without throwing off a LOT of other realities.
These trend lines will all be peaking within the lifetimes of those who saw Israel become a nation again in a day in 1948. My notion is that as long as a single individual of that cohort is alive, the window of opportunity is open. That’s the outside limit from my interpretation of Biblical prophecy. So I give some margin above that and say well before 2075.
The Gospel must reach all language/tribal groups before Christ’s return. That is currently projected to well before 25 years from now and those most in the know say before 12.5 years from now. That’s a very key prophetic benchmark. Very key.
The new Jewish Temple will be built before the ABOMINATION THAT MAKES DESOLATE—satans/antiChrist’s image set up in the Holy of Holies at the 3.5 year mark of the 7 years of the GREAT TRIBULATION.
And, there’s the prophecy about the world leader/Anti-Christ “MAKING WAR WITH PEACE.” That is taken to mean seductively setting Israel up in a trap that seems like world peace but is a sham.
That Scripture has the ominous tag . . . WHEN THEY CRY “PEACE! PEACE!” THEN COMES SUDDEN DESTRUCTION.
Somewhere in all this is the Ezek 38 war . . .
Somewhere in all this are the fleets of ET & NWO UFO’s helping scare, coerce, manipulate the world into a tyrannical global government.
Throw in von Braun’s prediction, warning . . . mix in some current prophetic sources dreams and visions . . . with Jihadi nukes in American cities and attacks by Russia and China et al . . . could get very interesting . . .
Some sources have been concerned serious festivities could get kicked off this summer. Now, reportedly Syria has delayed invading Israel again until the first half of November.
Certainly a lot of prayer is going up regarding the Peace of Jerusalem . . . and asking God to delay such festivities as long as possible.
Throw in the convictions that a lot of folks have—Rush L amongst them—that Bush will not leave office with Iranian nukes still a threat . . .
The whole END TIMES sequence and timeline could be kicked into a higher gear almost any time.
Outlandish? Depends on one’s perspective. Perhaps from God’s perspective, it’s more outlandish that He’s waited this long to discipline outrageous mind numbing lawlessness and immorality . . . what are we at now . . . 30 million infanticide victims in the USA alone? Seemingly every so many weeks, some horrid idiot is arrested for outrageously outlandish sexual abuse of . . . . toddlers, even BABIES???!!!!
I think it’s much more OUTLANDISH to ASSUME that things are going to go on more or less as they always have. Virtually All the evidence from a list of directions indicates loudly otherwise.
At some point, the world itself would convulse with terrible spasms against the evils flooding it from hell.
I think the best exhortation is WALK CLOSE TO GOD; INSURE YOU KNOW THE LORD JESUS’ VOICE; STAY TUNED . . . things are winding up . . . how ever slowly or speedily . . . with whatever seeming starts and stops and rushing along’s.
Truly, it seems more important to me that everyone be watchful than that everyone agree in their understanding of the "signs of the times":
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. Matt 25:13 (ending the parable of the ten virgins.)