Are we living in end times? If so, what are the signs?

Answer 1

MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS OF THE LAST DAYS

“Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.” (Matthew 24:7) Millions of people have been killed in wars during the past century. One British historian wrote: “The 20th century was the most murderous in recorded history. . . . It was a century of almost unbroken war, with few and brief periods without organised armed conflict somewhere.” A report from the Worldwatch Institute states: “Three times as many people fell victim to war in [the 20th] century as in all the wars from the first century AD to 1899.” More than 100 million people have died as a result of wars since 1914. Even if we know the sorrow of losing one loved one in warfare, we can only imagine such misery and pain multiplied millions of times over.

“There will be food shortages.” (Matthew 24:7) Researchers say that food production has increased greatly during the past 30 years. Nevertheless, food shortages continue because many people do not have enough money to buy food or land on which to raise crops. In developing countries, well over a billion people have to live on an income of a dollar or less a day. The majority of these suffer from chronic hunger. The World Health Organization estimates that malnutrition plays a major role in the deaths of more than five million children each year.

“There will be great earthquakes.” (Luke 21:11) According to the U.S. Geological Survey, since 1990 alone an average of 17 earthquakes per year have been powerful enough to damage buildings and crack the ground. And on an average, earthquakes strong enough to cause total destruction of buildings have occurred yearly. Another source states: “Earthquakes have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the last 100 years and improvements in technology have only slightly reduced the death toll.”

“There will be . . . pestilences.” (Luke 21:11) Despite medical advances, old and new diseases plague mankind. One report says that 20 well-known diseases—including tuberculosis, malaria, and cholera—have become more common in recent decades, and some types of disease are increasingly difficult to cure by means of drugs. In fact, at least 30 new diseases have appeared. Some of them have no known cure and are fatal.


PEOPLE OF THE LAST DAYS

Aside from identifying certain world developments, the Bible foretold that the last days would be marked by a change in human society. The apostle Paul described what people in general would be like. At 2 Timothy 3:1-5, we read: “In the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.” In part, Paul said that people would be

▪ lovers of themselves

▪ lovers of money

▪ disobedient to parents

▪ disloyal

▪ having no natural affection

▪ without self-control

▪ fierce

▪ lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God

▪ having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power

Have people become like that in your community? No doubt they have. There are people everywhere who have bad traits. This shows that God will soon act, for the Bible says: “When the wicked ones sprout as the vegetation and all the practicers of what is hurtful blossom forth, it is that they may be annihilated forever.”—Psalm 92:7.

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Answer 2

Many orthodox and conservative Jews believe the time is ripe for the coming of Messiah. They see Israel's return to her homeland after more than 1,900 years of national dispersion as having great prophetic significance. They believe the 1948 rebirth of Israel and waves of immigration from all over the world are converging with many other factors to set the stage for the predicted coming of the Messiah.
Many Christians also live with a heightened expectation of the coming Messiah. They view events occurring in Israel as a likely fulfillment of prophetic scriptures, and they contend that we are seeing the unprecedented convergence of prophetic indicators. They point out that the increased frequency of natural disasters, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, are part of the last days scenario described in the New Testament.
Messianic hopes are also being fueled by the fear that before long many religious extremists and even criminal organizations like the Mafia will be able to obtain nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons will soon be easily obtained into the hands of criminals and madmen.
Interestingly, both Jews and Christians share the belief that a period of turmoil and distress will precede the coming of the Messiah.
Much of this messianic expectation is rooted in the Old Testament prophecy known as Daniel. No book in the Bible says more about the end-times than Daniel.
These are sobering days. The final pieces of God's prophetic puzzle are coming together, "...when ye see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is near at hand " (Luke 21:31).
Matthew 24:7 "...there shall be famines.." It is reported by several world agencies that approximately eighteen thousand people die each day from starvation.
(24:7) "...there shall be earthquakes..." Earthquakes are rapidly increasing all over the world.
( 24:9) " Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name sake." There is a wave of anti-Jewish feeling in the world today. Recent bombings, suicide bombers......
(24:14) " And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." The American Bible Society reports that every tribe on earth has the bible in it's own language....
(24:37-44) " But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be," " For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark..." Gross sexual immorality that Jesus foretold is rampant today. It may be even worse than in Noah's day. Divorces, Child molestations, abortions, sexual diseases, pornography, Homosexuality is on the rise the world over,.....

Indeed are we prepared?

Answer 3

Any lower school pupil could graph the what I see as the end game.
If you accept mankind as being the major user of the planet's resources, then plot that growth against time, you will see the last two centuries have taken off like a rocket.
In fact it is no longer a graph, it is a straight line going vertically.
Greed and Power have motivated it with India and China ending it.
May I add, to the benefit of the West's short term profit.
We are committing population suicide and seeing the state of it, it comes as no great loss.

Answer 4

Remember, end-times only exists at all if you're a fundamentalist xtian. Nobody else believes the ramblings of some 1900 year old semi-literate scribblings.
In any case, you can interpret almost any prophecy to mean whatever you want. Some peo-ple refer to Hiroshima as the nuclear war preceding end-times, others suspect a global holocaust. Who's right? If anybody!

My personal feeling is that people should just forget so--called prophecies and get on with their lives. After all, there are so many prophecies written over the years that some may well appear to have been fulfilled - it's a phenomenon known as coincidence.

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Answer 6

Actually in a sense we are and in a sense we dont know. The end times (or last days- eschatai hmerai)- in Scripture- refers to primarily the era following Christ's ascension into Heaven. The last 2000 years are, in a sense, the end times. Are we in the last 10 20 30 40 50 100 years? I dont know and you dont know. We ought to be on the alert always- but never presume that you have it all figured out as to how exactly it will all work out.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The signs that we are living in the time of the end are manifest when we look at what jesus said in matthew chapter 24 .

Answer 9

Yes, we are living in the end times. The signs are parents against children and children against parents. Wars and rumors of wars. In the news today, A father locked him son in his Room. Notice all the people who are coming up missing. Our soldiers will be in Iraq until 2010. Ministers and politicians being exposed. Jesus said "To look up for ur redemption is near."

Answer 10

i saw some programme about 2 years ago now and it was all about bible code... they were saying this book predicted all these events that had happend like the assisination of a president and mass terrorism in america and they are now predicting that at the end of 06 beginning of 07 there is going to be an atomic explosion will will wipe out human race! At the time i was really scared but i've since forgotten about it....