we keep hearing that there is doomsday - rapture - the end of the world - the comming of the christ - but thousands and thousands of years just keep on coming and going and life just goes on! so where is it? where is all that death and detruction ? I have respect for you all! but maybe , just maybe you all have taken all that a bit too literal when it is all meant symbolically ?
2007-05-02 11:03:32 · 8 answers · asked by slaveof12gods 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Symbolic. It's symbolic.
2007-05-02 11:17:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
When Jesus told of the coming destruction, it had two fulfillments. The first was the fall of Jerusalem. He prophesied this in 33AD. The Roman army showed up in 68AD and withdrew unexpectedly. The faithful immediately ran for the mountains. When the Romans returned in 70AD, they killed or enslaved everybody and left "not a stone upon a stone" of the temple. Everything was just as Jesus foretold.
The later fulfillment is in our day. Everything he said is happening today on a scale the has never been. The end of this wicked system is near. We are finally preaching the good news of God's Kingdom to all the inhabited earth. We are on God's timetable--not ours. Even Jesus said he did not know the precise time, only his Father did. He is waiting like us.
i went to the dentist to get a tooth pulled. The end of this wicked system is a lot like that. You have the warning you have to go. The actual event is terrible. When you get out, the healthy teeth are saved and life is wonderful, especially if you got Darvocets.
2007-05-02 19:36:38 · answer #2 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible answers this perfectly:
2Pe 3:4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”
2Pe 3:5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,
2Pe 3:6 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
2Pe 3:7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
2Pe 3:8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
If you want to read the whole chapter see the source below.
2007-05-02 18:24:39 · answer #3 · answered by CaTcHmEiFuCaN 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thousands of years equals a simple breath in the eyes of God. (Think about it. No beginning, no ending, a few years is nothing compared to eternity.) I don't see how it'd be symbolical. Symbolical to what? The end of the world? No I think that's pretty much what it is... I imagine it's coming very soon. There are signs of the end times, and we're probably living in them. Weather changes (freak storms here in TX) one world currency (Euro is starting), all that jazz. It's coming weather people want to believe it or not.
2007-05-02 18:13:44 · answer #4 · answered by spinelli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is actually good that it has taken this long because it gives more chance for people to improve, to be forgiven. It will happen eventually. People were waiting for Jesus' first comming a ling time before that happened and many of them did give up hope. We all need to trust in God. Yes, some is symbolic, seperating goats from sheep is seperating good people from the bad and so on. The main concept...fact.
2007-05-02 18:12:43 · answer #5 · answered by waterviolite 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might be interested to know, in the book of 2nd Peter, you have just fulfilled a certain prophecy. The verse reads something like this...."and they will say, 'where is the promise of His coming? As in the days when our fathers fell asleep, all things have continued on as they were".
Jesus will come when He does. We are not sure of the timing. But we are sure of one thing: every single promise God has ever made, He will keep.
2007-05-02 18:21:26 · answer #6 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lord will come when he is ready. Not a minute too early and not a minute too late.
2007-05-02 18:14:23 · answer #7 · answered by James F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians can't seem to agree on much of the Bible. For instance, some Christians think when the Bible refers to "homosexuals", it actually means "happy campers".
2007-05-02 18:20:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋