When people talk about prophecy and it being the last days...?

Question

What comes to your mind? What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Don't leave the porch light on.

Christians all blathering on about the last days should be the first to know that NO ONE KNOWS WHEN CHRIST IS RETURNING.

These wars and earthquakes and tsunamis... it's not the first time stuff like this has ever happened, and it certainly won't be the last. If Christianity is right, Christ will return when no one expects it, and it seems like everyone is expecting him now.

Answer 2

This kind of discussion has been around for at least a thousand years. It is a sign of aging. When I was a teenager in the 1970s, Frank Zappa was a horrible thing compared to Tino Rossi that my mom liked. Now, I hear the loud music of my young neighbors and I say: What's that noise and yelling? Furthermore when cinema came at the beginning of the 20th century. Many people said that it will lead to decadency. Of course, they were showing a man and a woman kissing on a big screen, soon it will be orgies everywhere. Oh, many of those guys, if bring to today's world would say: I had told you...

Answer 3

One of my favorite songs by INXS goes "if you're looking, you will find it." The song's title is "Shine Like It Does" and it is about finding goodness in others' hearts.

My point in mentioning it is that people have been seeing these signs since Revelations was written - if people are looking for them, they will eventually find them even if these "signs" aren't what they perceive them to be.

I mean, look at the Middle Ages in Europe - torn apart by disease, famine, warfare, death - all the signs of the Apocalypse combined with a mindset well prepared to welcome its coming.

Yet every generation has been wrong so far.

What comes to my mind is the question "Why do so many people WANT, I mean truly WANT with the core of their being, this world to come to an end?" It scares me in so many ways, and it ain't the fear of God that's in me.

Any religion that is based on a Genesis (beginning) also has an Apocalypse (ending). All three monotheistic religions are based on this structure, yet there are other religions that are not.

Answer 4

That it is sad that they ignore or force reinterpretation on the clear time statements given by Jesus and the apostles concerning the soon (in their day) 2nd coming of Christ. By during so they are forced to literalize figurative language (according to the OT) and are not able to see the beautiful picture of what Christ accomplished during the first century. That being the destruction of the old economy so that all mankind is now reconciled to God by being in the new economy.

Answer 5

When people talk about that subject, I think about Hal Lindsay becoming a multi-millionaire by producing religious books predicting the end of the world. According to his 'Late Great' books, the world ended over ten years ago.

Answer 6

I think they are trying too hard to figure out what God has in store for us. Jesus said he will come like a thief in the night, so any predictions of when the last days are are probably incorrect. The simple fact that they think we are in the end times now means that we are not.

God bless!

Answer 7

It is a joke. Because people have been saying the same thing for hundreds of years. It is a fear tactic used to get people into church so the ones who run it can make more money.

If all humans die it will be because that is the agenda being pushed.

Answer 8

There have been end-time prophecies as long as there have been religions.
What you are hearing and seeing now certainly isn't the first.

Answer 9

Global warming, fighting and killing in the name of hate and religion. Definitely not some "old white man with a beard in the sky" who will wipe us all off the face of the planet. If it happens, we'll do it to ourselves.

Answer 10

That we surely are in the last days. And if not, we are quickly approaching them.
To much evil and hatred in this world for it to continue.