The end of the world...?

Question

Does anybody else feel that amegeddon is approaching? Maybe not in this lifetime, but soon. Saint Bernadette I believe it was, said they're are things that will happen before his return, one of which being many evils and horrible plagues upon the earth. Like fighting over oil, and a horrible hurricane season, and tsunami's killing so many people, and earth quakes. It's just the beginning. It may take another 50 years or so but the way this world is going now, god won't let it last like this too much longer. He won't allow these things to continue like this for very long. People are just too evil these days.

I think that was her name, but Saint Bernadette was the girl who Mary as an angel came to. I dont really remember the whole story.

Answer 1

Why refer to Bernadette when one can refer to Jesus' comments?
Matthew 24: 3 ..................................

Answer 2

Yes, I do. Everyday, it's one day closer.

Jesus gave us signs to know when we were living in the "last days". They are found at Matt. 24 and Luke 21.

As you mentioned wars was one sign. Yes there have always been wars, but since 1914 we had the first world war. From 1945 to 1982 there have 270 wars. Over 100 million people killed. Of course, there have been several more wars since 1982. There have been two world wars. Which has never happen in past history.

Another sign is earthquakes...which would include tsunami's as they are caused by earthquakes, as can be floods, volcanos etc...
prior to 1914, there had been 856 quakes that measured 7.5 or more on the Richter scale or resulted in 5 million dollars damage.
Since 1914 to 1984 there have been 605 such quakes. That means that, in comparison with the previous 2000 years, the average per year has been 20 times as great since 1914. Of course, we have several since 1984. Man has cause the extreme weather due to global warming. Rev. 11:18 shows that God will "bring to ruin those ruining the earth."

Another sign is pestilences or sickness and disease. Since 1914, there has been the spanish flu which killed 20 million. AIDS, cancer, heart disease, etc...taking lives every day.

Another sign - food shortages. World War lead to widespread starvation in Europe and Asia. Africa has been stricken by drought, resulting in extensive food shortages. 1980 the Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that 450 million people were hungrey to the point of starvation, and up to a billion did not have enough to eat. Of these, some 40 million a year die, in some years as much as 50 million die.

The attitudes of man are brought out at 2 Tim. 3: 1-5 "Critical times hard to deal with...lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god...no natural affection..."

Matt. 24:14 shows that "This good news of the kingdom will be preached to all the inhabited earth for a witness, and then the end would come." This work is being done today in 236 lands,
by Jehovah's Witnesses.

Luke 21:28 says "But as these things start to occur, raise yourselves erect and lift your heads up, because your deliverance is getting near."

After armegeddon, we can look forward to what Ps 37:10 & 11 & 29 brings out. "And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more, And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it."

So it's not the end of the earth, but just like in Noah's day, it is the end of the wicked ones and the meek will be left over on the earth to live in peace forever.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

A Jewish saying goes something like this -

There is to be 2000 years with out Torah.
There is to be 2000 years with Torah.
There is to be 2000 years of Messiah.

The first 2000 years ended when Abraham started to preach about God.

The second 2000 years was to end around 30 BC. But the Jews can not find any significant historical event, so they say that it is because of their sins that Messiah has not come. But Christians know that that is when Jesus died and arose.

If we have our dates correct, that means that the end will be in 2030. And Tribulation will start in 2023.

Answer 5

You're not much of a history student, are you? We are like a bunch of baby bunnies compared to all of history ever since the stone age.
No, I'm not saying that we won't poison ourselves out of existance in the next couple of hundred years, or that the whole world won't be sucked into atomic wars that will finish us all.
That thing about people being evil now is what I have to question.

Answer 6

2 Timothy 3:1-5,7 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Answer 7

Probably not, people have been feeling like that for centuries. Some early Christians were expecting for Christ to come in their lifetime. When one of them died, Paul (I think) wrote to them saying to wait and be patient, and most important of all, don't commit suicide.

Many early Christian writers have felt that people in their own day and age were evil and were expecting the end. We just don't know and will happen like a thief in the night - unpredictable.

Answer 8

You think that there is much evil in the world today, but I'd like to point out that there was even more evil (on a per capita basis) during the dark ages.

Answer 9

No one knows for sure when the Lord will return but we all have to be ready to go. It may be sooner than we think or it may be thousands of years from now, we just don't know.

Answer 10

Do you have any idea how many people have been saying that for thousands of years ? Yes, thousands of years.

There's no end of the world.

Answer 11

"But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father."

(Mark 13:32 , KJV)

These were the words of Jesus.