Seriously, people have been predicting the end for 2000+ years. Many people in every generation have claimed that this time it really, really is the end.
Sorry, but that's an incredibly inaccurate position to take, even though it's taken with great regularity, because the meaning of this passage is totally distorted by taking a snippet out of context. Christ said "no man knows the HOUR," but He also commanded us to pay attention to the signs so that we would know the SEASON. People in prior centuries ignored one KEY element that could not possibly have been in place, the re-formation of Israel. IMO the rebirth of Israel in 1948 clearly signaled the start of the SEASON.
I don't know how long that season is, but signs are lining up like pieces on a chess board: The ever-shifting European realignment. The description of the times that is an exact description of the times we live in. Russia making rumblings in the Middle East. The list goes on and it's no longer a stretch to see the conditions being met. Common sense reading of the signs reveals a perfect match for the times.
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And everything you just said has been repeated with a little variation as long as I can remember. Does "The Late Great Planet Earth" ring a bell? Perhaps some people just really want to believe that we are in the end times and interpret things the way they want to.
THANKS. AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
I get weary of stating the simple truth about that one.
Off the subject of UFO's, but would you say more people coming back into the Church as one of the signs?