My mom keeps telling me a story about the end of the world, has anyone heard of this b4?

Question

My mom is an alcoholic & goes to church at least 3 times a week. everytime i see her though, she tells me this story about what is going to happen when the world ends. I can't remember every word she said, but she keeps telling me that when the world is comming to an end, god or jesus is going to come down to earth in a disguised body & he's going to send all his angels to get their family members & loved ones, to take them to heaven with them or something & my mom says god is going to turn her into a shinny golden color & that i shouldn't be afriad of my mom when she comes to take me & my daughter with her to heaven. it sounds so unbelievable & another story she tells me is that god is going to make a better more safer earth to live in after this earth comes to an end! she claims that these stories are in the holy bible! I have a holy bible, but it's too complicated & long to read! I believe in jesus & god & in good & evil, but im not a church goer!

has anyone ever heard or read of these stories in the bibles?

Atheist Candy, its a bite too late to try and help my mom, shes been in rehab at least 3 times and also been in a phsyco ward, but she just keeps drinking her life away and there really isn't much i can do for her, unless she asks me for help!

apryl....thats more like the story my mom keeps telling me, i just forgot half of it, cuz most of the time her stories she tells me, goes in one ear and out the other!

Wizardmenlopark....no im not a teenager, im 25 yrs old and i have a 2 and a half yr old daughter! i dont live with my mom either

Answer 1

Well I don't know about all that but what I can tell you is where to find some of the thing about the end of times in The Bible:

Matthew 24-25
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024-25;&version=9;

2 Thessalonians 2
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=60&chapter=2&version=9


Revelation 1-22
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%201-22;&version=9;



That should get you stared. One more thing you can try and ask your mom where she gets that from the bible.

Answer 2

As a Non-Christian speaking to a teenager (I take it, you are relatively young), I would still ask you to explore the subject. You say you have a Bible...start reading it...not just the "Cliff notes". Speak to people (ministers, priests whatever clergy either your mom goes to, OR, ask the person you respect the most, about speaking to their clergy about the subject. Do a little research and reading on the subject. Talk to several EDUCATED people about the subject. There's a reason why they're called "Belief systems"!!! You have touched on a topic, and have an attitude towards organized religion, that is NOT uncommon among many people, especially, young people who are still forming their own Value systems & beliefs. This is a topic that people have discussed, debated and argued over from almost the beginning of time. Take your time. Approach the topic with an open mind. What is ultimately best for your best friend and/or the person your respect the most, or even me, may not be "right" for you. You will have to "go your own way" and find your own comfort zone. Don't just blow this off. You will live with your choices (and doing nothing is a choice by default), for the rest of your life. Good luck.

Answer 3

I don't know if your mum misunderstand the sermons of her minister, or if said minister is deliberately misleading his flock, but somehow there is a lot of misunderstandings and misleading going on here! The Bible does warn us (in Revelations) that life as we know it now, will come to an end (the end of the world?) and that a better dispensation will follow (the 1000 year reign of peace). It also warns that those who willfully sin and do not believe in God, will be excluded from this new dispensation. Re. sin - these are clearly listed in Exodus under the "ten commandments" which is self explanitary. The Christian Bible refers to believing in the Holy Father, His son the Saviour Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit as the true form of belief. The choice should be your's if you want to believe this, how much of it you want to endorse and if you want to take the "risk" of not believing. The laws of the country in which you live also dictates certain mores and ethics, in its common laws, for which you will be punished if you should transgress against them, i.e. being jailed for stealing anything, if you are found guilty, etc. These laws are based upon the Biblical Ten Commandments, but also act as regulator for peaceful co-existance in society. Unfortunately some churches capitalize upon the Bible and laws of the country to ensure that their churches have congregations, thus a steady flow of income for their ministers. Religions throughout the ages have all common "laws" which all determine the same end result: harmonious co-existance with your fellow man. This and the legal systems of civilised countries are the common regulators which determine peace on earth - like you said: the difference between good and evil. Adhering to these common practices ensures at least a happy life, and when you die, if there is an afterlife, you should be fairly well-accepted into it because of your basic "good" way of living, regardless of whom you chose as your own personal religious deity.

Answer 4

Whoa! Sorry your mom is so messed up. Yeah, some of what you quote is fairly close to the truth with a little Hollywood glitz to make it more exciting for the movie goers. But you don't have to read the whole Bible to get a glimpse of what will happen in the end times.
The book of Daniel and Revelation have a lot of the prophecy and Jesus Himself mentions snippets of it in the books of Matthew and John. Get a New International Version Bible, it's a lot easier to comprehend than the King James. But better yet get a Recovery Version New Testament from www.biblesforamerica.org they're free. But Daniel is not in the New Testament.

And most of all don't just take someones word for it. Research it yourself to discover what is truth and what is not.

Answer 5

This is a bit off topic but, get her *** to an AA meeting, and find yourself an Al-Anon support group for yourself.

Church isn't very successful at helping people who are alcoholics because from their frame of reference "all you need is Jesus" and they don't except alcoholism or drug addiction as a diseases... church goers in general think they are a moral weakness.

I have a friend who had been sober in AA 8 years then became a born again Christian. She quit going to her AA meetings because she didn't want to be around those people anymore now that she was a Christian. Within the year she was drunk... she had allowed her Christian friends to convince her she wasn't an alcoholic and that she could have wine with dinner. She's been drunk on and off for the past 3 years, and her life is a mess now.

Answer 6

The idea of an apocalyptic story from scripture is a common one, but one that is flawed. Most of this idea comes from the book of Revelation which, if left to stand on its own, could give someone the idea that there will be some sort of reign of God here on Earth.
Unfortunately, since this would contradict the rest of scripture, it is either untrue, or being misinterpreted.
Remember that John was exiled to the island of Patmos when he wrote this letter. Revelation is a book of both encouragement, and correction for several of the church congregations which are mentioned in the letter. But he couldn't simply had a letter of encouragement to his Roman jailers and expect them to deliver it to the Christians...especially since this was the very reason he was exiled in the first place.
So, he wrote Revelation in a common form of code, if you will, that was very familiar to the Jews of that era, called Apocrypha. This method used various symbols and numbers, and highly descriptive writing that appeared to be what any self respecting Roman would like to see. Talk of Gods, and dragons, and gold and fire and such.
But to the Jew's familiar with the writing it meant something completely different.
Jesus said when He comes again it will be with the sound of the trumpet, and then the judgement. No thousand year reign, no second chances, no rapture...which is not found in scripture. There will be no reign on Earth. Jesus has already told us His kingdom is not of this world.
I realize that much of what I have just said may be as difficult to understand as your mother's idea...but remember...if the things she states contradict the other books of the new testament, then they cannot be true. For instance...John himself wrote in the book of Revelation of an anti-Christ. Yet he writes in 1st John that "anyone who denies Christ, is the anti-Christ" So you see...there is not a single one...but anyone who denies Christ is described that way.
Find a way to read and understand what scripture says. Don't rely on the knowledge of others to lead you, because in the end it is you who must stand before God on the merits of your life.

Answer 7

I have and read some of this.
I don't know about your mother being changed into a golden light.
But at the end Christ will have one foot on a cloud and the other on the earth.
There is a place in the Bible that says the children of god will be
taken to heaven before the finale battle of God and Sanitation.
Read REVELATION'S. you should find most of it their.
I do remember something from my child hood that went some thing like this.
A husband and wife, are laying in bed one will wake up the other the angles have taken.
Hope this helps you.

Answer 8

Funny. The whole world is in full expectancy of the selfsame thing at the present moment no matter how much they put up a phony front. Just read the Bible. The King James Version. Forget buildings and crowds. That's all they are. The only other thing you'd need might be a Strongs' Exhaustive Concordance. And that is all of it!

Answer 9

First of all I am sorry to hear that your primary experience with church has been one related to alcohol. That is sadly tragic.

Your mother is likely referring to the events described in the books of Daniel and Revelation, as well as other smaller references throughout some of the old and New Testaments.

I, for one, believe that the events described in these books are literal, although hard to understand.

In essence, there will come a day in the future when God will choose to judge the inhabitants of this Earth. Those who reject the gift of forgiveness offered by his son Jesus Christ will be judged for their sinful nature and punished in a place called Hell. Those who accept the fact that they are sinful, and accept Jesus' substitutionary sacrifice on the cross as payment for their sin will be granted forgiveness and life after death with God.

The Book of Revelation, written by one of Jesus' disciples (John) is his account of a vision of the future given to him by Jesus. This vision, which is the book of Revelation, describes some of the events that will occur just before this judgement. Obviously, John in AD 90 could not accurately pen what he was seeing, so he did the best he could. This makes it hard to understand.

Read the Book of Revelation and God will bless your attempt to understand these things better.

May God bless you.

Answer 10

i have no idea where you re mother got those ideas from but during the rapture Jesus is going to come back and take all the saved people back to heaven with him . after the rapture the Antichrist will be in power and there will be hell on earth for 7 years. no one knows when any of this will happen though.