We are in the last year of 7 years of plenty, and in Sept. 2008 will begin the 7 years of famine.... beginning of tribulation. Don't quote me the scripture that says no man knows the coming of the Lord. That's a lie. The Lord has revealed it in scriptures to many just recently. It's called "hidden manna". In doubt? Well seek it out for yourself and you decide if they have indeed had confirmations and revelations from the Lord.
2007-05-02 17:09:18
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answered by Anonymous
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Hi Matthew
Since you say: "I am aware that no one knows the day nor the hour," why do you then add a "but" - which effectively means, in this context, "but forget about that, let's speculate anyway."
I remember reading in a newspaper, AT LEAST 20 years ago, an interview with a pastor at some church who reckoned he knew how to calculate this stuff. Well, sort of!
As far as I remember his words his explanation went something like this:
"In the 1960s it seemed to me like the end must be pretty near, and I predicted it would be in 1970. Then I did some more studying and I settled on 1973 instead. Then I prayed some, and studied again and I thought it was more likely to come in 1978 or '79."
Isn't there somewhere in the New Testament that says that in those times there will be many false prophets?
I seem to rember that there is also an instruction to live every moment like it could be our last so that we will be prepared no matter when the end comes.
Maybe we're meant to take that instruction seriously, do you think, rather than trying to guess our way round it?
2007-05-02 07:30:20
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answered by Anonymous
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The end is coming, it will not be in the next 20 years. The verse you are thinking about says in Matthew 24;
"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows."
In other words, we are NOT to look at wars, rumours of wars, etc... as signs of the end time. .
2007-05-02 07:29:39
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answered by Brian 5
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I think there is a possibility that Jesus might come back around 2028 because of the theory about the significance of numbers in the Bible. Supposedly Jesus was born around 4BC and so He would have died around year 28AD. If 2028 is 7,000 years after the creation of the earth and 7 represents completion then maybe that's when Jesus will come back. Just a theory. I know that the Bible says that no one knows the day when Jesus will return and as to the signs you mention Jesus said that these were the beginning of birth pangs. Who knows? Maybe I'm off a thousand years or maybe the theory doesn't have anything to do with God's timing.
2007-05-02 07:36:05
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answered by Martin S 7
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not concerned but u could read this for some insight:
www.jesuswillreturn.com
THE SIGNS FROM THE ISLAMIC RESOURCES
1 The Splitting of the Moon
2 The Iran-Iraq War
3 A Great Battle between the Tigris and the Euphrates
4 The Occupation of Afghanistan
5 Stopping the Flow of the Euphrates river
6 Lunar and Solar Eclipses in Ramadan
7 The Rise of a Comet
8 Storming the Ka`ba and the Subsequent Bloodshed
9 Sighting a Flare in the East
10 A Sign Out of the Sun
11 A Solar Eclipse
12 A Change of Systems
13 A Tribulation of Dust and Smoke
14 The Emergence of Widespread Slaughter
15 The Killing of the Rulers of Damascus and Egypt
16 The Killing of Abdullah, the Former King of Jordan
17 The Enslavement of the Egyptians
18 Destruction of Great Cities
19 The Rebuilding of Ruined Places
20 The Fourth Peace and Arab-Israel Peace Agreement
21 The Loss of an Army
22 No Money Will Be Left to the Iraqis
23 Flames Destroy Homes in Baghdad
24 The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
25 An Embargo against Iraq and Damascus
26 The Restructuring of Iraq
27 Iraqis Flee to Damascus and the North
28 Fitna in Damascus
29 Chaos in Damascus, Iraq and Arabia
30 The Division of Iraq into Three Parts
31 War in the Streets
32 A War Between Muslims and Jews
33 The Killing of Innocent Children
34 Pervasive Corruption
35 One Type of Fitna Will Spread Everywhere
36 Religious Prohibitions Gain Acceptance
37 Openly Denying God
38 Replacing God with other "Deities"
39 A Sign of Materialism's Spread
40 Days of Anarchy and Chaos
41 The Absence of Peace
42 Revolutions
43 People Flee From One Another in Confusion
44 The Global Pervasiveness of Chaos and Conflicts
45 The Occurrence of Great and Astonishing Events
46 The Situation of Some Muslims
47 The Current Situation of the Islamic World
48 Wars Between Muslims
49 Muslims are Subjected to Severe Troubles
50 The Killing of the Innocent
51 People Killed for No Reason
52 Corruption that Causes Conflicts Everywhere
53 Loss of Hope in the Mahdi
54 Poverty and Hunger
55 Drought
56 A Weakening Economy in Specific Years
57 The Cutting of Trade and Roads
58 Decreased Earnings
59 The Division of National Wealth among the Rich
60 An Increase in the Number of Earthquakes
61 Earth's Collapse
62 Conversion of Homes into Graves
63 Winds and Tornadoes
64 Violent Rain
65 An Increased Amount of Lightning
66 Abandoning the True Religion and the Qur'an's Moral Values
67 Not Pondering over the Qur'an in a Sincere Manner
68 Muslims' yearning for non-Muslims
69 Fitna Alienates People from the Qur'an
70 Propagandists Distancing People From theIslam's Morality
71 Hypocritical and Fraudulent Clergy
72 Degeneration among Politicians
73 Abandoning "Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong" as an Act of Worship
74 Good Is Confused with Evil
75 Close People Will Encourage One Another to Evil
76 The Number of True Believers Being Very Few
77 Use of Mosques for Different Purposes
78 Appearance of People Who Recite the Qur'an for Personal Benefits
79 Faith in Horoscopes and Refutation of Fate
80 Making Hajj (the Pilgrimage to Makkah) for Purposes Other than God's Good Pleasure
81 People Inclining to the Desires of their Lower Selves
82 Social Deterioration
83 Adherence to Traitors and Considering the Righteous as Treacherous
84 The Decreasing Number of Reliable People
85 The Decreasing Number of Trustworthy People
86 Abandoning Almsgiving
87 Abandoning Salah (Prayers)
88 THe Spread of False Testimony and Slanders
89 Giving Positions of Responsibility to Incompetent People
90 Considering One's Superiority To Be in Wealth rather than in Awareness of God
91 The Decay of Human Relations
92 People Value Their Pets more than Other People
93 The Decay of Family Relations
94 Diminished Love and Respect among People
95 Weakening of the Family Structure
96 Increase in Worldly Ambitions
97 Prevalence of Hypocrisy and Ostentation
98 Spread of Cursing and Abuse
99 Spread of Forgery and Bribery
100 Increase of Gossip and Derision
101 Some Young People Turn Away from the Religion's Morality
102 The Collapse of Moral Values
103 Spread of Adultery
104 Acceptance of Homosexuality
105 Epidemics
106 Reports of Sudden Death Will Multiply
107 An Increase in Murders
108 Increase in Suicides
109 Civil Wars and Conflicts
110 An Increase in Literacy
111 Time Grows Short
112 An Increase in Urbanization
113 The Construction of Tall Buildings
114 The Close Approach of the Markets
115 Speaking by Means of the Whip
116 The Speaking of One's Own Voice
117 A Hand from the Firmament
118 Increased Productivity
119 The Greening of the Deserts
120 Increased Life Expectancy
121 The Appearance of False Messiahs
>> PORTENTS OF THE MESSIAH'S RETURN IN THE BIBLE
122 The Emergence of False Messiahs
123 Some People Lose Hope in Messiah's Coming
124 A Rise in the Number of Earthquakes
125 Famine
126 Major Wars Break Out
127 Love is Diminished and Anger and Hatred Increase
128 People Move away from the Religion's Moral Values
129 Disasters Inflict Terrible Suffering
130 The Spread of Epidemics
131 People Who Exploit the Religion For Their Personal Interests
132 The Appearance of Portents in the Sun and Moon
133 Extraordinary Events Take Place in the Sky
134 Moral Degeneration
135 The Oppression of True Believers
136 The Emergence of Corruption That True Believers Should Avoid
137 Events That Inflict Pain and Suffering
138 The Coming of the Dajjal
2007-05-02 07:21:45
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answered by Sassafrass 6
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Firstly, Jesus on earth? Ehm.. no
Secondly, you should have asked this question in 1939 when the first world war was just over and a second was just about to start.
Right now we're fine. We've got thousands of years left on this planet.
All we have to do to make it a better place is somehow overthrow the idiot that is running the White House and make americans aware that it is NOT a good thing to invade a country.
2007-05-02 07:20:36
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answered by Bobbo 5
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There have always been earthquakes, famines, disease, plagues, wars and rumours of wars. That's just how the world works.
Jesus isn't coming back. He's long dead and gone, it's not happening.
2007-05-02 07:20:23
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answered by iamnoone 7
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The baby boomers are on the verge of retirement. They are the most well educated group ever born. It is getting harder for the government and authorities to pull the "wool" over their eyes (at least canadian boomers).
Have you noticed all the old leaders (generals) dieing off? This is called the succesion. There will be new wars, skirmishes to establish the next "kings" of the shtt pile.
2007-05-02 07:26:53
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answered by Lukusmcain// 7
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The signs of the times have always been with us. Since we have more technology now than we had 100 years ago, for example, we hear more about these signs than before. Just because we hear more about them now does not mean we are any closer to the end than before. It does not mean that we are not in the end days. Only Allah knows for sure.
2007-05-02 07:21:44
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answered by Rahma 3
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yeah, cause there have never been times throughout history in which earthquakes, famines, disease, plagues, and wars have coexisted. This is the end my friend. Farewell cruel world.
2007-05-02 07:19:14
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answered by Anonymous
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