does anyone think the end of the world is near?

Question

honestly does anyone?

Answer 1

Very near, but more correctly, the end of the Age.
The present earth and heavens will continue for at least one thousand years.
The present Age under the domination of Satan is coming to a close. It will end in cataclysmic judgments, and eventuate in the establishment of the Kingdom of God as an earthly Kingdom.
That is why Christians pray: "Thy Kingdom come..."

Answer 2

I don't just think it - I know it!
The signs are all there. Especially Matthew 24:14 - 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.
Jehovah's Witnesses are in over 235 lands and countries of the world. Their goal is to talk to everyone possible on this planet and that goal has been reached. People are making/have made their decisions concerning God, weather to serve him or not.

We can see the prophesies of 2 Timothy 3:1-5 coming true, especially the part about "critical times hard to deal with will be here." We see people in this world displaying the traits that are listed in those verses.
The evidence that we are living in the "last days" is too over powering to ignore. But what do these last days mean for you? What will happen when they are finished, when we get to the very last day? Will you be on God's side or Satan's? Those are the only two sides to choose from.

Answer 3

It depends on what you call the end of the world. If you mean the sinful mankind, yes I do. But if you mean the earth itself, then no. The earth God created to stand to "time indefinite."
He also created man to live forever, but when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, the only thing they could pass onto us is "death and suffering." But God gave mankind a time frame of approx. when this suffering would not only become worse, but also what would bring an end to the suffering and the conditions we see today. They alone, tells us we are living in the last days. Look up, 1 Timothy 3:1-5 and answer for yourself if not man is behaving as these scriptures describes. Then take a look at Matthew chapters 24 and 25, Mark 13, and Luke 21, 2 Peter 3:3,4 and Revelation 6:1-8; all of these point to the last days. I ask you to look these scriptures up, and answer if you think we are in "the last days" of this old system? What do you think these signs points to?

Answer 4

Yes! Jesus gave us a very clear sign to look for at Matthew 24. Every aspect of that sign has been or is being fulfilled including the preaching of the good news of God's kingdom in all the earth.
The attitudes of individuals are as recorded in 2Timothy 3:1-5. We live in "critical times, hard to deal with". It can be argued that these things have been occurring throughout mankind's history. The difference now is that they are happening on an unprecedented scale and humankind worldwide is facing all of these problems at one time.

Answer 5

--IN VIEW OF JESUS WORDS , in answer to the question his disciples asked---yes!

(Matthew 24:3) “. . .While he was sitting upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately, saying: “Tell us, When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?.......7 “For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. 8 All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress......11 And many false prophets will arise and mislead many; 12 and because of the increasing of lawlessness the love of the greater number will cool off."

--THIS INDEED IS describing an earth wide crisis in one period of time that has been called "the last days"; "conclusion of the system(wicked) of things"; "time of the end"
--SINCE 1914:

*** ce chap. 18 pp. 227-229 The Bible—Is It Really Inspired by God? ***
***1914—The Turning Point in History
--30 From the human standpoint, the world troubles and global wars foretold in the Bible were far from the thinking of the pre-1914 world. German statesman Konrad Adenauer said: “Thoughts and pictures come to my mind, . . . thoughts from the years before 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and security on this earth—a time when we didn’t know fear. . . . Security and quiet have disappeared from the lives of men since 1914.”25 People living before 1914 thought that the future “would get better and better,” reported British statesman Harold Macmillan.26 The book 1913: America Between Two Worlds notes: “Secretary of State Bryan said [in 1913] that ‘conditions promising world peace were never more favorable than now.’”27
--31 So, right up to the very brink of World War I, world leaders were forecasting an age of social progress and enlightenment. But the Bible had foretold the opposite—that the unprecedented war of 1914 to 1918 would highlight the beginning of “the last days.” (2 Timothy 3:1) The Bible also provided chronological evidence that 1914 would mark the birth of God’s heavenly Kingdom, to be followed by unprecedented world trouble.28 But was anyone living back then aware that 1914 would be such a turning point in history?
--32 Decades before that date, there was an organization of people who were making known the significance of 1914. The New York World of August 30, 1914, explains: “The terrific war outbreak in Europe has fulfilled an extraordinary prophecy. For a quarter of a century past, through preachers and through press, the ‘International Bible Students’ [Jehovah’s Witnesses] . . . have been proclaiming to the world that the Day of Wrath prophesied in the Bible would dawn in 1914"

***AND WOULD ESCALATE, & never subside world wide, as Jesus said "a beginning of the pangs of distress."

Answer 6

The Bible describes events and conditions that mark this significant time period. "The sign" is a composite one made up of many evidences; thus its fulfillment requires that all aspects of the sign be clearly in evidence during one generation. The various aspects of the sign are recorded at Matthew chapters 24,25, Mark 13, and Luke 21; there are further details at 2 Timothy 3:1-5, 2Peter 3:3,4 and Revelation 6:1-8.

Matt. 24:7 "Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom"

"There will be food shortages...in one places after another"

Luke 21:11 "There will be great earthquakes"

"In one places after another pestilences"

Matt24:11,12 'Increased lawlessness accompanied by a cooling off of love on the part of the greater number'.


Yes from my study of the Bible I am convinced beyond a shadow of doubt that we are living now, since 1914 in the last days of this wicked system of things.

Answer 7

Yes, I do! I think it is a lot closer than anyone thinks.
All that has to happen is for the governments to turn on reliigon and that is right around the corner.
ONe more terriorist attack and that is so close it isn't even funny. In fact who would have thought they would have waited this long. Pakistan, India, china and Russia with a lot of broke scientists all have a nuclear weapon and are disfunctional societys.

Answer 8

I do! makes me wonder- Hasn't God had enough of all the sin. Only then will he decide to end world. , but all things that says in Bible that will happen before Jesus returns for Rapture. So many wars, diseases, natural disasters, ect. I just wonder how much longer he will tolerate devil and lies.

Answer 9

In God's eyes, who sees a day as if it were a thousand years, and vise versa, since He's not trapped in this 3D world, it's been so since the death of Christ.

In my eyes, I see prophecy being fulfilled all around me. I find it both exciting and perilous, but am grateful to have been born in this portion of the time prison. Soon He will set me totally free.

Answer 10

Yes it is very near