And some older predictions:
Seventh Day Adventists
Jehovha's Witnesses
and the dispensationalists
Posted on 06/06/2024 4:25:04 AM PDT by Cronos
For those of us who have raised children, you might remember the question. There was a commercial, as I recall, that used the question to emphasize one product or the other in a humorous way.
Children in the back seat of the car in the commercial kept asking, “Are we there yet?”
We who transported our young kids on those times – especially on longer trips to Grandmas or other destinations – have heard that question, often in whining tones as time went on. I certainly remember hearing it. And I’m sure my parents heard it on those long trips from Pekin, Illinois, where we lived when I was a child, on the road to Hampton, my grandparent’s home in south Arkansas.
At this late moment of this Church Age I, myself, seem to be whining this question, and I’m hearing it from others on a growing basis.
“Are we there yet?”
It is coming from God’s children – believers in Jesus Christ who, like myself, sometimes grow weary –or vexed – as ol’ Lot might have put it while enduring to the end his time in Sodom.
“Are we there yet?” That is, how long before we reach the end of our Lord’s tolerance for the evil flourishing all around us while we keep looking up,” as my friend the late J.R. Church used to put it at the close of his Prophecy In The News TV program each week.
Each and every day – actually, each and every news cycle – we are inundated with end-times storm warnings. And it seems as if the Words of Warning from the Chief Prophetic Meteorologist of all history is speaking directly to those who, as commanded by Him – are “watching in order to discern where this generation stands on God’s Prophetic Timeline.
Jesus gave the signals to look for as Earth’s inhabitants near the outbreak of history’s most virulent turbulence – that of the Tribulation era. The following is that Storm warning.
“Are we there yet?” Is that great storm of the ages about to invade at this particular time? Let’s listen again to that Heaven-Sent Forecast that we can rely on as 100% accurate because it was issued by God Himself.
“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved” (Matt 24:6-13).
Heaven’s Prophetic Forecast, of course, covers a broad scope of history, so many parts of this Olivet Discourse prophecy by Jesus applies to much of history that has already un-scrolled since He issued this Prophetic Weather Bulletin. Let us very briefly dissect this Warning, first in terms of its broad, historical sense.
“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars.”
Hundreds of wars have afflicted humanity since Jesus spoke these words. The greatest wars of all time, World Wars One and Two, have caused the deaths of millions. The Romans waged war on the Jews, the Temple was destroyed, and the Jewish people scattered to all the world.
“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.”
As a matter of fact, it has been ethnic disputes and warfare that have wrought the deaths of millions across the world.
“And there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.”
Earthquakes have continued to rumble throughout history, while the wars have brought famine and disease to countless generations. We have seen in our brief time on the planet as of late, a tremendous increase in these things.
“All these are the beginning of sorrows.”
These great troubles have been accumulative. They have indeed been like birth pangs, growing more intensive and coming in greater frequency.
“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.”
The history of hatred of the Jews is in full view of the eyes of the world. The Nazi holocaust is the number one sign of history that highlights the satanic hatred God’s chosen people have endured. Their rejection of the very name of Jesus Christ and their being blamed for His crucifixion has been the basis Satan has used to incite the world against all of Israel.
So history has proven the absolute accuracy of Jesus’ Prophetic Forecast. But it is the question “Are we there yet?” I wish to address with regard to whether this generation has reached the moment when the Lord will say enough is enough and call believers to Himself so the greatest Storm of all history can rage upon a world ripe for Judgment.
We must place the same template over what is going on at this very moment to try to help answer, “Are we there yet?”
“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars.”
The most profound threat of nuclear conflict of history might now be in the offing. Even the Cold War could not match the danger. Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) was effective, as the world’s two greatest superpowers were able to control escalation into man’s final war.
Not so now. There seems no control, as the power centers with the nuclear weapons are scattered around the globe, and many decision-makers among the most diabolical of their leaders seem bent on having their way, regardless of possible ramifications of all-out nuclear war.
The primary cause of the conflict again centers around ethnic differences and demands. Greatest among these conflicts is the hatred of the Jews and of Israel by their neighboring countries.
And that hatred has expanded to include many within nations of Europe and even the United States of America.
The seas and waves of peoples are roaring in that the protests against the Jews and Israel are front and center in even what is generally considered the civilized West.
At this very moment, even some among the Jewish people themselves are shouting along with the Israel-haters, “Stop the genocide,” and “From the river to the sea.”
As Jesus forewarned, these Jews on the politically ideological left are “betraying one another.” The genocidal rage is building swiftly toward another holocaust. Jesus also had a forecast about this evil that will mark the very end of the age.
“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matt 24:21).
And hatred is building, too, against the Church – all believers in Jesus Christ and His Message of being the One and Only Way to Salvation (John 14:6).
The comment by a legal defense fund for Christian persecution states the following:
Biden is empowering the radical Left to wage a surreptitious war on our Christian faith – prayer, churches, the Bible, and even Christian kids sharing their faith in school are all under attack. The Biden FBI has even placed spies in churches and targeted “radical traditionalist” Christians for investigation…
We’re in court right now defending a teacher who was banned from praying anywhere a student might see her.
I’ve never seen anything like it… [Source: Jordan Sekulow, ACLJ Executive Director]
While unbelieving Jews must undergo the Tribulation Storm to bring forth a Remnant that will bring about God’s great Promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, believers of this Church Age (Age of Grace) will be taken (paralambano) to be with Jesus in the Clouds of Glory – In the Rapture. All indicators are that we have come to be right smack in the breaking turbulence of Jesus’ forecast of the end-times Storm.
And this is why I believe we can answer with a resounding “YES!” the question: “Are we there yet?”
And some older predictions:
Seventh Day Adventists
Jehovha's Witnesses
and the dispensationalists
Rapture believers thought that they need not worry about fighting to save America from the spread of Marxist ideology in U.S. institutions because they would be Raptured out.
I'm not saying this is accurate or not...just that it is food for thought.
Every one of us has our own personal Armageddon, and that is called death. Prepare for that, and everything else falls into place.
The JoHos are probably the worst of the lot, when it comes to this sort of nonsense. I have already lived through SEVERAL of the dates they claimed for the “End of the World”®, namely 1972, 1975, 1985, 1999, 2000, 2012, etc. etc. etc...
I also lived in the Golden Triangle region of Southern Ontario for several years, whilst attending Uni, and a lot of the (older) locals would talk about how the Canadian Branch of Watchtower was so paranoid about the 1972 date that they bought up a huge tract of land outside of Georgetown, ON, and spent several years in the Sixties building their Canadian headquarters with a large “underground city” dug below it.
Driving past the HQ at ground level, it just looks like several hundred acres of farmland that looks oddly-flat, for land in the Niagara Peninsulal region, and the actual ‘above-ground’ HQ building is rather disappointingly small...
Corrie Ten Boom who survived a German Concentration camp said the following: “In China, the Christians were told, Don’t worry, before the tribulation comes you will be translated-raptured. Then came terrible persecution. Millions of Christians were tortured to death. Later I heard a Bishop from China say, sadly,
We have failed. We should have made the people strong for persecution, rather than telling them Jesus would come first. Tell the people how to be strong in times of persecution, how to stand when the tribulation comes -to stand and not faint.”
We are one day closer to the rapture than we were yesterday.
That is just plain BS
Well said.
Incorrect title
Billions and billions have died waiting for the ‘end of the world’ to come.
You sound like you have your mind made up. That’s called bias.
Whenever I need my faith strengthened or seek fellowship FR is the last place I go.
I hope it’s not accurate
the Witnesses still have that prediction that the 1914 generation is the “fig tree generation”.
The latest I’ve heard is that they say that anyone who has met anyone who was alive in 1914 is still part of that “1914 generation”
I'm not saying this is accurate or not...just that it is food for thought.
It's not accurate at all. I know lots of people who think the rapture is close and not ONE of them thinks that way.
It's telling that people have to lie about those who believe in the rapture to try to discredit it.
and thanks for that information about the Wintesses underground city — https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7066981/Inside-creepy-Jehovahs-Witnesses-tunnels-used-thousands-worshipers.html
The best you can do is find examples from a minimum of 13 years ago and then a few from cults to try to discredit the rapture?
You are making a fool of yourself.
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