Is the end of the world really about to happen?

Question

the signs of the times are culminating to the end, but the world will end in stages. right after the Rapture, the world will start to end. Jesus said in Matthew 24:3-8 that when there are "wars, rumors of wars, nations against nations, kingdoms against kingdoms, famines, pestilences, earthquakes; beginning of all sorrows but the end is not yet." the signs show the Rapture is about to happen. the heat waves throughout the U.S. recently, temperature ranges in the 100s. what about the 2005 Hurricane Season? record-breaking--Katrina for instance. major earthquakes, major 2004 tsunami, eruptions. sure, we say "the end is near." although no one knows the exact moment when it will end (except God the Father - Matthew 24:36). Israel fighting wars, Iraq fighting, the whole Middle East fighting.

yes, people have made it a "boy cried wolf" situtation. PRETTY SOON THOUGH, THAT WOLF IS ABOUT TO BITE THE NONBELIEVERS IN CHRIST IN THE REAR-END. you can all laugh and joke--for now.

accept Jesus as your Savior now and you can be spared from the worst of the end times (the Tribulation)!

before you think of me as being a non-Christian, read my profile. i am a believer in Christ, and i am excited that the Rapture is about to happen!

Answer 1

Yep, I agree we're in the "last days." We are told to not be afraid for He is with us. We are surely entering into some hard times too, keep the faith!

Answer 2

Let me preface this by saying I am a believer.

I was mulling this over just today. I was remembering how terrified I would get back in the 80's as a teenager, when they told me that the Rapture could happen any day. I remember thinking about all the things I'd never experience in my life if the Rapture happened tomorrow. I lived in fear as every new "sign" was being fulfilled. I knew I'd go to Heaven, yet the whole "Rapture" question did nothing but fill me with dread.

There was a book that came out in 1988 that was called "88 Reasons the Rapture Will Happen in 1988". When it didn't happen, the guy wrote another book the next year, called (you guessed it), "89 Reasons the Rapture Will Happen in 1989".

I'm not saying that paying attention to prophecy isn't important, but their are bigger battles to face right now. We've got to get right on the beginning of the Bible if the end of the Bible is going to make any sense.

God's Word is God's Word, so I'm not faulting Him for what he tells us will happen in the end. But I don't see any Christians talking about end times in any other context than scaring the stuffing out of believers with what all is happening. The end will come when it does; nobody can know when that will be. But we can teach the world the truth about how things began. And in the end, that message gives a whole lot more joy and hope.

Let's see more people teach Revelation from the Word than from the headlines, and perhaps it will have more meaning for believers and those we are witnessing to alike.

And by the way, everything you are saying, they were saying 25 years ago. Same stuff. You're right, sooner or later, all the "wolf-criers" will be right. But what do you say to those people who were negatively affected year after year that people were wrong? Have we actually kept people from the kingdom by sounding the same horn, year after year, and we're still here, saying, "any day now?"

Unfortunately, I"m probably casting pearls before swine here, given some of the antagonistic people to Christianity that lurk Yahoo! Answers, but this needs to be said, and I'll repeat it; make sure you get the beginning right first; preach the gospel to all you know, and be ever watchful for the return of our Lord.

Answer 3

No, the the world will not end soon. But for those that are going to stick around for the Great Tribulation, they might think that it will!

See if you don't think that this is interesting.

Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

knoweth:
G1492 eido, a primary verb; used only in certain past tenses

Can you know now?

Was it a feast day that Jesus was laid in the tomb?

When the Spirit poured out upon those gathered at Pentecost? Just happened by coincedence? Or did God set that time?

The Feast of the Trumpets happens September 23, 2006.

Do you think that God would pick just about any day, or maybe one of the feast days for the Rapture, maybe even the Second Coming?

Israel is 7 hours ahead of New York time. Where will you be?

I think that IF Jesus takes His church out this year, it will be on the Feast of the Trumpets. If He doesn't, He will take us out of the world on the Feast of the Trumpets on A year after this one. Maybe not this year, maybe not next year. Whatever year Jesus takes us home, it will be on the Feast of the Trumpets.

Answer 4

In relation to eternity it is always about to end as we know it. It ended as we know it when 9-11 happened. The prophecies are being fulfilled at a rapid pace and things are falling in place for our Lord to come and rein and rule for a thousand years here on Earth. It is never going to end like just disappear, but the way we relate and the way we are, will end. Remember, God is the Alpha and the Omega. That means the beginning and the end, and the beginning and the end, and the beginning for ever. So the way we relate will end, but it will begin again at the same moment. We will be a being for ever and ever. This is only the beginning of the creation and there will be further creation unending, if you are attached to God's belt loop. Hang out at the point of the metamorphose.

Answer 5

Er, with the temperatures and hurricanes and such, that's not End Times talking there, friend; that's global warming. A nice man named Al Gore recently wrote a book about it; I hear it's also a movie. You might want to read/watch it. Earthquakes...earthquakes happen all the time; if you visit the USGS you'll find that, on average, the rate and severity of earthquakes is pretty uniform throughout history; they haven't suddenly escalated in the last few years or anything.

And the war in Iraq, the Middle East thing...the war in Iraq is because of one idiot named George W. Bush, not because of End Times. And when was the last time there was peace in the Middle East? That's nothing new, sorry.

Answer 6

History Channel:

Mayan calendar states Dec 21st, 2012 is the final date. And could also be interpreted that extraterrestrials would return to Earth.

But if you're into Nostradamus, you have well into 3000 something.

LOL.

Christians have been going on about this forever. Maybe you should ask someone to run a Bible code.


Personally I think that there simply will be a drastic change in civilization or social structure soon, as far as when then I have no idea and neither does anyone else, but we can't go on like this too much longer or there just won't be much Earth left for anyone to live on.

I don't think that there is going to be a huge catastrophe though.

But I also don't think that with God having put dozens of religions and religious groups across the planet, that Christians have the exclusive rights to heaven.

Because utimately God put those other religions here and they have just as much right as Christians to be here.

Sorry, but that's the truth. They wouldn't be here if God didn't want it to be so, isn't that right? Do you really think God is so irresponsible that he deliberately condemns certain groups just because?

If you really think he is that irresponsible, then maybe it's YOU that has an issue with God to resolve, not them.

Maybe he should leave you here in their place. What do you think?

Who cares what name you put to God, or Allah, or Buddha, or Vishnu? OR what method (religion) you use to worship him? God is infinite is he not? That's everything and everyone.

I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, I just don't think many people have a true understanding of God. Any person, any religion, including myself. But I have a hard time believing that he would place certain groups here just so he could condemn them later, what kind of God would that be?

It just makes no sense whatsoever. And God always makes sense, it's just us mere humans that have such limited understanding...

And don't go telling me that it's the Devil's doing, because God could do away with the Devil too, couldn't he?

You are just being plain silly.

Answer 7

The religious nuts predicted the end of the world in the year 1000. In 1960, I read revelations, daniel, ezekial, etc. The preachers of the time said the world was ending then. A friend of mine turned from an alkie to a born-again bozo in 1975. He said the world was ending then. In the year 2000 the christian crackers again predicted the end. Grow up. The bible is full of all kinds of ramblings that can be interpreted any way you want. By the way, if the world is ending...sign over all of your possessions to me. You won't be needing them, according to you.

Answer 8

December 21st, 2012 is a well published date for the end of the world ... it'll probably be more so as it grows nearer ...like y2k. I remember all the right wing talk show hosts hawking the crank flash light radio combinations ... cause everything was going' bust after new years eve. These are the same people who hawked Bush ... by the way. Well my point is ... You think people are going to wait to the last minute to do Christmas shopping in 2012?

Answer 9

"wars, rumors of wars, nations against nations, kingdoms against kingdoms, famines, pestilences, earthquakes"

Can you give me a block in history over the past several thousand years where that has NOT been the case? I have no problem with your beliefs, but the environmental problems the planet is having now are entirely created by us. We've destroyed our own paradise.

Answer 10

No one on this earth knows the answer to that question! I'm 26 and the worlds been coming to an "end" for as far back as I can remember!

Answer 11

The Mayans say December 21, 2012