1) A Church that is increasingly in apostasy. (check)
2) Israel back in the land. (check)
3) The Temple rebuilt. (not yet, but could be accomplished in a very short time)
4) A revived Roman Empire of some kind. (depends on your opinion of the EU)
5) The whole world with their hands on the Middle East, the region of Jerusalem and Babylon. (check)
6) Moral decay celebrated. (check)
7) The ability for the whole world to see certain events (like the death of the two witnesses or the Antichrist standing in the Temple) simultaniously, e.g. TV (check)
8) The foundation of an alliance between Russian, the Middle East, and parts of Europe. (check)
I could come up with some others easily enough, but just on the surface, it looks like we're pretty much in the right condition for the 70th Week to begin in the next few years. That's not to say that it must, only that it could.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
And I agree, the list could grow longer, easily.
"The whole world with their hands on the Middle East, the region of Jerusalem and Babylon."
I was musing along these lines recently. For the last 2000 years the world's attention has been centered on certain conflicts. In our times we have seen the world focus on Europe, WW1, expanded to include the pacific in WW2, and various wars attempting to contain communism (Korean war, Vietnam).
But it occurred to me that since 9/11 something VERY different is beginning to happen. The eye of the storm is not Europe or the Pacific, it is the middle east. And not just Israel, but the entire Islamic area of the world.
This is biblical. 9/11 is definitely moving us into the endtimes. Not just the normal age-long conflicts, but the eye of the storm is increasingly becoming Jerusalem.
Didn't God say he would gather all nations to Jerusalem to battle? (Zech. 14:2) Since 9/11 the US has been drawn into the middle east. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria - we are being sucked into it whether the liberals like it or not.
And this is just the beginning. Increasling so, thanks to the Islamic terrorists, wars with Islamic nations are in the our future. We have entered into a new era. The final one, in my opinion.
By the way, are you the same Buggman that used to post on prophecy forums? Real good posts too if I remember right. I am post-trib, and premillennial, by the way.