I've learned to take very little in daily events as evidence of the Rapture, Anti-Christ, the Great Tribulation, or Armageddon being imminent. I came to the Lord through the study of prophecy.
I understand the author has put this here for discussion, but concentrating on symbols in a picture without an unction fron the Holy Spirit makes us look like fools.
The Clinton years were awful for many of us, who believed in morality, patriotism, and God. But they were followed by the Bush years where we got our way more often. All is as it should be. We watch, as in Matthew 25.
Exactly right. Stuff like this is not the basis for belief or faith.