The Revelations say that the faithful will be in a minority?

Question

It seems to me that christians are anything but a minority. If the beast has to do his work, it has to be without anyone noticing, otherwise people will rebel. This rules out any sort of dramatic ruling of the world. Also, christians and muslims will never see eye to eye and will therefore never accept the same leader, making the 'beasts' work impossible.

Here's what's happening. Atheists are the chosen ones. They're in a minority, and facing persecution from all other religions. They don't have the 'stamp' of religion, which ostracized them from most society. They are the ones who are showing courage in a world gone mad.

If the revelations contain any truth, it is that Atheists are going to heaven for having the courage to be true to themselves.

Of course I don't believe in the revelations. It's just that it's fun to interpret them.

There is hefty debate withing the Christian world about whether or not the rapture will take place before or after the beast. So it's not obvious that the rapture will take away all the christians.

Second, even if the rapture will take place before the beast, after such a demonstration, who will not become a christian?

Finally, Muslims are even more fanatic than christians, and they will NEVER agree to worship anyone other than their Allah. If someone else does miracles, they will call him a devil.

Answer 1

lol, the whole thing was a metaphor for the Christian persecution by the roman empire...

Answer 2

Flawed logic because if you don't believe in God, why would you go to heaven? Why would you even believe in God. Admission to Heaven is not based on being true to oneself, but about being true to God.

We may seem like we're the majority, but we are facing increased pressures, which cause a decline. Since you are talking about Biblical prophecy, let me share some things based on what I understand about the Bible.

In the last days many will fall away. To me that means that Christians can leave Christianity. Right now, Christianity is "cool" and churches are a place where we talk about a lot of the positives of Christianity. But when hard times come, do you really think that every Christian will stand firm. Especially if those hard times include a society that continues to show "evidence" that Christianity is false and secular society which puts pressures on individualism and self-centerdness? It gets harder and harder to have people remain true to the faith under those scenarios.

One thing to realize is that the Antichrist will be thought to be the messiah because he will bring about a peaceful co-existence, which right now is hard to imagine. But then 10 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine either same-sex marriage, the destruction of the world trade center, or the possibility of RFID tracking chips being placed in people. SO, you never know how soon times will change.

So, I do believe that Christians will become a dying breed in this country. You may feel that Christianity is on the rise. And I will disagree with you. Sure, the religion is on the rise but the faith issues, that is being changed and challenged each day.

Answer 3

First of all, Revelation is singular, not plural. The Antichrist won't come to power until after the rapture, so there will be no Christians here at all, which makes for a very small minority. The beast is the apostate religion, the one world religion at the end of time. The chosen ones are the Jews who will be the target of all nations at the Battle of Armageddon. Atheist won't be going to Heaven, but only Christians who have accepted Christ.

If you want to pick on Christianity, at least try to get some of the facts straight.

Answer 4

Wrong, the beast that rises out of the sea is political. The second beast with two horns like a lamb is Satan pretending to be Christ, instead of Christ or antichrist. He will be supernatural and not born of the womb as some teach. He will perform miracles and deceive many, even Muslims and Athiests. The whore is religion in general playing the harlot by thinking Satan is Christ or Allah. The Mystery is some symbol of this whoring and Babylon is the confusion of the people.

People are Biblically illiterate and do not know the sequence of events written, that is, Satan is booted out of heaven before the second advent. We are already seeing the falling away which is defection from truth, that is God's Word. The mystery of iniquity does already work.

The faithful are in minority but they are not part of any religion or big church, unless that church teaches the Word of God. By this I mean they teach more than a few verses a week. The famine of the end times is for hearing the Word of God, not food.

Dream on in your delusion or study God's Word.

Are you having fun enough to perish, not flesh death but the second death which is non-existence and no memory of you, more like you never existed. Is that fun?

No such thing as the raptue, this is part of the falling away or defection from truth.

Satan will be all things to all people, a supernatural play actor and shall deceive the whole world, except those with the seal of God in their forhead or brain, God's elect.


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Answer 5

If you really believe any of what you just said, that is why the devil is such a good deceiver. The faithful is a minority(in Christ) because if it very easy to do what is wrong. It is man's nature to sin. It is harder to do what is right. God is not a minority. Just His true followers. Some even say that know God but in all actuality they do not. God is love. If you do not love everyone, you have no part in Him. May God Bless

Answer 6

First it is REVELATION (singular not plural).
Atheists the chosen ones? Get a clue.
The rapture of the TRUE CHRISTIANS is going to happen before the Anti-Christ comes to power, so we will be in the minority. Also the Anti-Christ will label those Christians who remain as people who hate progress or something like that, so the world will hate them and pay no attention to them.

Answer 7

your logic sucks atheists don't even believe i think they're pretty much choose to rule themselves out theres actually over a billion atheists so they certainly don't fit the minority , I'm not going to speculate but there some very intelligent , articulate inviduals who make up a minority group and they have always had a higher respect for God then Anyone . if anyone fits all these descriptions they do. They find their own path to God and never deny or blame him, nor do they rely on him they simply respect him and use his gifts to further humanity , No organised relgious group even comes close to that. To all christains read Revelation then read the Book of the Law A. Crowley , the process hath begun

Answer 8

Though statistics shows that there are over a billion Christians today, in spiritual reality, a very large number are dead, added to the swelling numbers of atheists, agnostics, heathens, and heretics who are in darkness "having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts" (Eph 4.18 ) . The smallest seed sown has enlarged its branches and was planted everywhere but, as was prophesied in the Sacred Scriptures (both in the OT and in the NT), has shrunk - widely abandoned and even trampled upon - today since the 1960's to so few a faithful (not the faithless as what you're trying to impress upon), the remnant. "But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?" (Luke 18.8)

Answer 9

If you were a Bible scholar, you would know that the Christians will be "caught up into the air, to be forever with the Lord" which we call the "Rapture". This is why there is the 'minority' (those left behind who become Christians and go through the Tribulation).

Answer 10

No. The beast will come out and claim to be God. Many many many Chritians will turn from their faith to follow him, to escape persecutions. Those Christians left to be persecuted will be a minority.

Answer 11

Your erroneous assumption is most of Christianity is of the true and faithful sort. From what I see, the true Christians are a small minority indeed...