Posted on 05/11/2003 9:28:59 PM PDT by hope
The Apostles believed that they were, those, who followed them...ditto. For the past 2000 years plus, every generation or so, makes this claim ERRONIOUSLY ! Heck, the Jews, 100s of years BEFORE the birth of the Christ said so and that is WHY they yearned for the coming of the Messiah !
Global cooling, during the " Dark Ages " ? End times.
The Black Death ? Same thing.
Islamonazis swarming towards/ over Europe ? You got it..." THE END TIMES ".
VD ? same old, same old.
Every single war, from the first Crusades onwards, and the tinfoilers of the day, were / are screaming THE END TIMES ARE COMING, THE END TIMES ARE COMING !
There was even a man, in Times Square, in Manhattan, who for something like 50 years, from right after WW I, walked around, every day, rain, shine, snow, heat, cold, blizzard...wearing a sandwichboard, which proclaimed : THE END OF THE WORLD IS NEIGH . He died before the world ended.
Jehovah's Witnesses have been naming a year and then peddling as fast as they could, when the world didn't end, since its inception.
The leading up to signs, are SO vague,that everyone and anyone can and has decided that their time, was it and the warning signs predate Christianity by millenia ! LOL
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