Yeah we’re pretty much done.
Appears fear-mongering is a “prophetable” business.
“Now imagine a crisis post-Rapture: tens of millions vanish, chaos ensues. The world will be desperate for order and safety. Enter a charismatic leader with an explanation and a plan.”
Masses of professing Christians are lulled to sleep by the pre-trib rapture doctrine.
It reminds me of how many Jews remained in NAZI Germany with the rationale that “this is as bad as it will get.” Little did they know.
Christ gave the signs of His coming in the Olivet Discourse. These signs, including two important ones that Paul the apostle draws attention to in 2 Thessalonians 2, are how we know when the 2nd coming/Day of Christ is “at hand” (i.e. imminent).
Failure of modern professing Christians to learn this sets them up for the apostasy that is among the signs.
Matthew 13:20-21 NKJV
But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
Matthew 24:10 NKJV
Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.
Who is that will stumble and commit Judas-level betrayal of followers of Christ? Other professed followers of Christ who are persecuted “for [His] name”. But despite the apostasy and betrayal, the final generation of the Christians will face the Antichrist and will win:
Revelation 12:11 NKJV
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.