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End Time Prophecies
AwesomeSavior:
Johnny... I don't know about the binary star possibility, but I know that climate change is not primarily man made. I believe the main driver of it is from the numerous stellar cores that have entered our solar system, for which NASA and others are doing an excellent job with their various toys in hiding their reality. The propaganda is that humanity is to blame for climate change.
On another note, in around 14 years we will be coming up to the 2000 year anniversary of the death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and Pentecost of the Lord Jesus Christ. I have asked others their opinion on the significance of this anniversary, so I will pose this question to everyone. Do you believe that this matters in any way to the Father and the Son, or no? Can we "know when it is near, even at the door"? (Matt 24:33 & Mark 13:29)
Dean
Dave in Tenn:
Wanda, I suppose I am a little less convinced that "babylon the great" has fallen in us, from some (not all) of the responses in this thread. And it seems that some have read nothing but the towers paper.
Specifically, Peter wrote:
2Pe 1:19 And we are having the prophetic word more confirmed, which you, doing ideally, are heeding (as to a lamp appearing in a dingy place, till the day should be breaking and the morning star should be rising) in your hearts,
2Pe 1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture at all is becoming its own explanation."
Well, are "we knowing this?" Really?
Further, if that verse refers only to the destruction of Jerusalem, why was it posted to try to prove that it's something we should be consumed with today? I posted Ray's excerpt to emphasize that all that is being said in that verse is that His coming will be sudden. Sudden and unexpectedly. "Behold, I come SUDDENLY." Even so, come Lord Jesus.
But we all think what we think. Jesus is Lord and everything that plays out will be exposed by fire, both wisdom and foolishness. I make no claim to either.
AwesomeSavior:
In Matthew 24:2, Jesus tells His disciples that the temple will be thrown down. Here is verse 3: And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the "world"? (Greek: aion).
It's a two part question. They were wanting to know not only when the Temple would be destroyed, but also what would be the sign(s) of the end of this current eon. In verse 33, Jesus mentions whether we can know anything of the timing or not, which is verified by Mark 13:29.
Mark 13:4 and Luke 21:7 are very similar to Matthew 24:3, but without the Greek word "aion" mentioned in those verses.
I know we can't know the specific day or hour, but at the same time, I feel we aren't left in the dark, either. That's my interpretation of it.
Dave in Tenn:
Mat 24:13 Yet he who endures to the consummation, he shall be saved."
Endures what? The destruction of Jerusalem? If it's a two-part question and answer, Jesus certainly answered it oddly. Maybe it was a two-part question. The disciples even after His resurrection still didn't understand. But I don't think it's a two-part answer even if the prophecy of the Temple preceded both question and answer. And if it is a two-part answer, Jesus answered in reverse order.
"Don't be deceived"--"wars and rumors of wars"--"not the end". " Earthquakes and famine--not the end". These things must be, but the end is not yet--even if men tell you they are the end. They are, if anything, signs of the beginning. Every generation before and after that statement have endured these beginnings of labor-pains.
On the other hand, ...ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled. That's a prophecy for the generations of this age, and many don't seem to be following the admonitions. Don't be deceived. See that you are not troubled.
Dennis Vogel:
People in every generation believe they are living in the end times. Except now this can come true:
Mat 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Even a limited nuclear exchange between countries like India and Pakistan could be enough to kill every human being on the planet (Chernobyl radiation is still circulating the earth).
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