Shorter question this time: End Times?

Question

If the Black Plague wasn't THE ultimate event to usher in the End Times, I don't know what is. How can we say that these same kinds of events today (though not even equalling the same devastation) are signs of the End Times and fulfillment of the prophecies, when they weren't in the 1300s? The End Times didn't come with any of the other wars or famines or pestilences. How is NOW any different than the past?

See my last question for more details.

Answer 1

And behold, a pale squirrel.

Answer 2

The "wars and rumors of wars" has pretty much always been with us - with world-wide media what it is now, maybe we know more quickly now the vast numbers of wars going on all the time.

One thing I think about though is this. For Armageddon to happen, either the USA has to cease to exist (no longer protecting Israel) or it could move over to the other side (being against Israel). I think it's possible that within about 30 or 40 years, Muslims as a group could democratically (no, I am not meaning Democrats) elect a Muslim president and majority in both the house and the senate. Would that be enough to set the stage for a seven year peace treaty? Perhaps.

One of the previous answerers is correct though - we just need to be ready at all times. Jesus will return without notice.

Answer 3

I don't think so!! If you are staying at a higher end resort, you often have more direct access to one park - but the busses aren't any faster across the board. We learned this the hard way. We were staying at an All-Star resort, however we had breakfast at the Castle one morning, then since it was a rainy day we wanted to go to Downtown Disney. We had to go to the Transportation Center, then to any resort, then catch the bus to Downtown Disney. We went to the Saratoga Springs and waited 40 min. for the bus for Downtown Disney. UGH!! That being said, I think your wait AT THE PARK back TO the resort is shorter because the higher end resorts tend to be less crowded and I did notice the lines seemed slightly shorter to go back, although I can't speak as to how much shorter. But here is my tip. We (family of 4) ended up taking a cab from Hollywood Studios back to the All-Star instead of waiting in line. It was the BEST $11 we ever spent.

Answer 4

Zowie.There has never been a time in history where the events taking place in the geopolitical arena,coupled with the earth trembling and heaving,and global apostay have ever occurred.I could wax eloquent on the record breaking "natural disasters" we've had in the past 30 years.I could also show you how prophecy has been,and is being fulfilled,throughout the past century.But why bother?You equating Bubonic Plague with the "ultimate event" tells me no amount of proof would open your eyes.

Answer 5

When the bible speak of End times it means a span of years, If you would look back, the aftermath of the First World War will show greater famine, pestilences, drought, plagues, throughout the world. We see the “beginning of pangs of distress” in those events.

Revelation 6 might also be of interest.

Comments About World War and After

“It may be that, after the seeming inevitability of two world wars, the creation of nuclear weapons was an admonitory gift, which spared us a third clash of great nations and introduced the longest period of general peace, albeit a peace of terror, since Victorian times. . . . What had gone wrong with humanity? Why had the promise of the nineteenth century been dashed? Why had the twentieth century turned into an age of horror or, as some would say, evil?”—A History of the Modern World—From 1917 to the 1980s, by Paul Johnson.

“Of all the convulsive transformations of the European system, the Great War and the peace settlement brought about the sharpest break with the past, economically and socially no less than politically. . . . The mellow glory of that freely operating and productive system had vanished in the catastrophe of war. Instead, Europe had to cope with economic exhaustion and universal economic dislocation. . . . The damage was so great that the European economy did not recover from stagnation and instability before the next world war struck.”—The World in the Crucible 1914-1919, by Bernadotte E. Schmitt and Harold C. Vedeler.

“In the Second World War every bond between man and man was to perish. Crimes were committed by the Germans under the Hitlerite domination to which they allowed themselves to be subjected which find no equal in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened the human record. The wholesale massacre by systematised processes of six or seven millions of men, women, and children in the German execution camps exceeds in horror the rough-and-ready butcheries of Genghis Khan, and in scale reduces them to pigmy proportions. Deliberate extermination of whole populations was contemplated and pursued by both Germany and Russia in the Eastern war. . . . We have at length emerged from a scene of material ruin and moral havoc the like of which had never darkened the imagination of former centuries.”—The Gathering Storm, Volume I of The Second World War, by Winston S. Churchill.

“There is now a recognition of the human rights of people of all classes, nations, and races; yet at the same time we have sunk to perhaps unheard-of depths of class warfare, nationalism, and racialism. These bad passions find vent in cold-blooded, scientifically planned cruelties; and the two incompatible states of mind and standards of conduct are to be seen to-day, side by side, not merely in the same world, but sometimes in the same country and even in the same soul.”—Civilization on Trial, by Arnold Toynbee.
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Why do you think is this so?

Revelation 12:7-9, 12: “War broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited EARTH; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them! Woe for the EARTH and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time.”

Answer 6

It isn't. None of us know when this will occur. Modern plagues such as the Flu Epidemic in the early 1900, aids, hepatitis have killed more than the Black Plague. People see their time as the end or the worse of times simply because it is easy to look back and say they had it so much better. I don't believe the Creator wants us to dwell on the end. I believe he wants to live in the now and make the most of our time. He wants us to live and enjoy all his creations. We just need to remember to thank him.

Answer 7

The end of what Times? The New York Times or the original one?

Answer 8

The Spanish flu in the midst of World War I qualified to some. It's always fun to see what the groups will do the day after the world was supposed to end.

Answer 9

Today, we have the technology that never existed before, making possible many of the happenings of the end times that were not possible before. Read Matthew 24 it reads like tomorrow's headlines. Best be ready! Check John, chapter 3. Have a very good day!

Answer 10

End Times = ~4,800,000,000 years from now, when the sun goes red-giant. The closest *possibilities* to that are WMD or a meteor strike, and no predicting of either is possible.

And you're quite right... try earlier times for much more "wars, famine, pestilence"... There is no biblical "end-times" - it's all scare-tactics to keep sheeple in line and paying the churches.

Answer 11

We are most definitely deep into the end times. Gods Word tells us what people and conditions would be like “in the last days”. Jesus gave a composite sign of what would be happening in the last days. (Isa. 46:9 "there is no other God, nor anyone like me; the One telling from the beginning the finale")

Matt: 24:4-14 " And in answer Jesus said to them: “Look out that nobody misleads you; for many will come on the basis of my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. you are going to hear of wars and reports of wars; see that you are not terrified. For these things must take place, but the end is not yet. “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress... Then, also, many will be stumbled and will betray one another and will hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and mislead many; and because of the increasing of lawlessness the love of the greater number will cool off. But he that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved. And this good news of the kingdom WILL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE INHABITED EARTH for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come."

2 Tim 3:1-7 "But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal,  having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away. For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires, always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth."