What Are The Most Recent Signs That We May Be Near The Tribulation ?

Question

And do you see anyone on the world scene who fits the profile of the Anti-Christ ?

Answer 1

The fact that there is strife within and among the churches MAY be one of the signs of the end times.

The folks at Family Radio believe the Final Judgment and Second Coming of Christ will be in the fall of 2011.

For example see the book “Time Has an End” on line at:
http://www.timehasanend.org/public/en_time_has_an_end_cont.html

This group, whose primary teacher is one Harold Camping, also believes the Church Age has ended in 1988 and believers are to come out of the churches as they are now under the control of malevolent forces now that the Tribulation has begun. According to this group, this is why there is so much strife between and within church groups. Mr. Camping’s interpretations of the bible are highly allegorical, so let the reader beware.

See the book Time Has an End, Ch. 10:
http://www.timehasanend.org/public/en_time_has_an_end_ch10.html

That said, the online audio lectures at Family Radio, are illuminating and worth a listen:
See: http://worldwide.familyradio.org/zusa/english/connect/audio_archive/echoes/frame/download/download.html

Finally, for the offline version of the Family Radio nightly call in show, where folks ask questions about the bible to Mr. Camping, see:
http://worldwide.familyradio.org/zusa/english/connect/audio_archive/forum/frame/

I am not endorsing Family Radio’s doctrines, but one is able to learn quite a bit by listening to these materials.

Most of what you will read about the end times are pre-millennial views: the view that Christ's return will usher in a future millennium of Messianic rule mentioned in the book of Revelation before the final judgment. The believers of this doctrine also hold to the notion of a Rapture of the righteous beforehand.

Others hold that there will be only one second coming of Christ, at the time of the Final Judgment.

Then there are mixtures involving the views of the seven year tribulation and whether it is happening now, occurs later, etc.

These doctrines all fall under the general heading known as the study of end times, or eschatology.

For explanations of the various eschatological beliefs see: http://www.religioustolerance.org/millenni.htm

I am a Amillennialist. I believe we are currently living in the Millennium and in the Tribulation period. Events described in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 and in most of the book of Revelation have already happened. To me the Antichrist is figurative and not a real person. I believe that the Kingdom of God is today present in the world through the presence of the heavenly reign of Christ, the Bible, the Holy Spirit and Christianity. Both good and evil continues in the world until the current Church Age ends suddenly when Christ returns to the sky above the earth. Then the Rapture immediately occurs. The Redeemed are transported to heaven where they will adopt spiritual bodies. The rest of humanity will be condemned at this time to eternal punishment. The world will be abandoned. History is no more.


See:
http://www.prca.org/articles/amillennialism.html

http://www.carm.org/doctrine/amil_premil.htm

http://www.monergism.com/directory/link_category/Eschatology/Amillennialism/

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Read all Revelation 13 you see the anti-christ there. and in verse 16-18. he has a power over rich poor, free and slave.
and the beast give

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

Revelation 13:16
King James Version

what powerful institution that uses right hand and forehead

and in verse 18

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Revelation 13:18
King James Version

ok we will count



he has a crown but hes not a king.

This phrase is in the Crown of a one powerful person. that even Monarch bow to him

VICARIUS FILII DEI
(Represetative of Son of God}


V=5
I=1
C=100
A=0
R=0
I=1
U=5 (in roman alphabet it represents V)
S=0

112

F=0
I=1
L=50
I=1
I=1

53

D=500
E=0
I=1

501

112+53+501=666

Answer 4

I blogged on this a week ago. Here is an exerpt:

The term "antichrist" only appears five times in the Bible, but a cult not based on sound theology has created an urban legend that seeks Armageddon. The term "antichrist" never appears in John's Revelation or Daniel, written three centuries apart and under very different circumstances, yet the "Left Behind" followers weave them together.

The small texts that mention the "antichrist" were written to attack the Gnostic understanding of who Christ was. A Gnostic relies on intuition and not on dogma and doctrine. Gnostic's were most certainly free spirits and most all of the writings we have about Gnostics, have been the attacks upon them.

That all changed when the Nag Hamadi Library was translated and published, for what had been deemed heretical by those in power in the fourth century can now be read in most every language.

We may never know if the author who coined the term "antichrist" was actually the apostle John who wrote I John and 2 John - the only sources where the term appears.


John says:

"Dear Children,
...as you have heard that the antichrist is coming; even now many have come..."- I John 2:18


"This is how we know who the children of God are not: anyone who does not do right; nor anyone who does not love his brother."-I John 3:10


The followers of this "antiChrist" worship a false god: a punitive father, who seeks obedience, is patriarchal, demonizes woman, gays, lesbians, and seek empire on this world and cares naught for the fragility of Mother Nature. They resist what science offers, in particular new methods of healing (like stem cells), and JC was very big into healing.

In John 5: 1-6, an angel from heaven would descend and agitate the waters of the Pool of Bethsaida.

Only the first leper, blind, or invalid who made it into the water would receive a healing. One day while Jesus was there, he walked by a man who had been paralyzed for thirty-eight years. Jesus asked him, "Do you want to be healed?" The man answered he had no friends to help him get into the water first. Jesus asked him again, "Do you want to be healed?"

JC is always a gentle man, he never pushed anyone into anything!


The antichrist theology is the opposite and in the 21st century, these fundamentalists among us are seeking theocracy based on fear of others and they seek empire in this world.

Not at all what JC was about; he was about liberation from the bondage of corrupt teachers of The Law, that God loved ALL and the Kingdom of God is NOT of this world.

Antichrists do not have eyes to see that nature is God's primary temple, and war the greatest abomination...

The Armageddon groupies believe they will be lifted out of the misery of the world, and neglect to reflect upon the antichrist within, which is how centuries of theologians understood the term. The term anti/against Christ is best understood to be anti/against what Jesus taught.

The antichrists take certain scriptural passages literally, and totally neglect those they do not want to see or hear. Such as, Matthew 12:31-32, Mark 3:28-29, Luke 12:10, and the Gnostic gospel of Thomas saying 44:

Jesus said: "Whoever blasphemes against the father will be forgiven, whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either on earth or in heaven."

The Holy Spirit, AKA the spirit of God is within all created things. One should wonder what spirit is driving those that torture and bomb another. Who would Jesus torture and bomb?

Jesus has been hijacked by the right wing fundamentalists and the time of his liberation from the antichrists is NOW. Christ was no Christian, that term was not even coined until three decades after he walked the earth.

But JC was a social justice radical revolutionary Palestinian devout Jewish road warrior who challenged the job security of the temple priests and disturbed the status quo of the Roman Occupying Forces for teaching subversive ideas such as all people are equal and valuable.

The antichrists of today, neglect the non-negotiable's that JC commanded that his followers must do: LOVE, pray for and forgive your enemies, treat all people the way you want to be treated and remain NONVIOLENT, even if nailed to a cross.

Christ dealt compassionately with sinners and outcasts, but hypocrites received his wrath.

Compassion, which is sorrow for the suffering of others, is accompanied by the urge to help. This should define the Christian attitude.

If there is no compassion within a Christian, then it is the spirit of the antichrist that rules.

There is no AntiChrist (proper name), only people who are anti-Christ. It is these people who use the name of the Savior to pursue their evil agenda.

Answer 5

Aside from all the well known signs,in the latter days knowledge will increase on earth,We see that clearly.
The Anti-Christ no,He may be here but He has not
been revealed if he is.

Answer 6

Mans own inhumanity to his fellow man. Turning to other gods including other non Christian religions, no religion at all, self serving--not God honoring way of life. Things I feel that God can't help but not like, such as: abortion, murder, homosexuality, theft, lying, sexual sin such as premarital sex, living together before marriage, heavy emphasis on sex in society, common place foul language, and much more. Signs of the end times are seen in all the above plus as the Bible states: destruction in diverse places. Remember the recent Tasmania, New Orleans, ? Famine: look at the hunger all over the world. People living in lifestyles as they did in Sodom and Gomorrah(destroyed by God because of their pathetic way of life)-how much different were they than in many city's now? Some rules have taken prayer out of schools, want Christian displays, Christian wording, etc. taken out of public view. Some are putting God, Gods words & rules out of society. The end is near. I don't know when..no one does. But it's on it's way.

Answer 7

The Roman army surrounding Jerusalem in 70 AD was probably the most recent sign of the tribulation.

Answer 8

Osama Bin laden / Mahmoud Ahmadinejad / Kim Jong il / Hugo Chavez / Rosie O'Donnell???

I guess we'll have to have a runoff. They'll televise it on The View!

Answer 9

My Ex-Wife is the Anti-Christ. when she becomes intelligent? And shows any form of Heart? Then, you'll know it's over!

Answer 10

The religious extremists who are working on the Islamic Bomb and saying, "Convert or Die".