False signs of the 'end times'?

Question

Many people seem to believe that the end is nigh because of an apparent increase in 'signs'.

We are now living in a world of instant news access via TV and Internet.

Would this suggest that disasters and wars are not more numerous now, just more evident?

Answer 1

You are right of course, but forgot to add in the 'science' aspect - we know far more about previous, present, and, to some extent, future events now; why they happen, where they are likely to happen, etc.. So reporting and having more understanding of these things are much easier than before.

We'll know we're on the right track when we can start predictiing them! (and I don't mean from scripture)

Answer 2

You're absolutely right.

Another thing is, in nearly every single generation, without fail, the devout people of that time believed there's was the end. Guess what, we're still here!

Today it's no different. The end of time is on the day that you die, The end for all of us is when the Sun runs of of fuel which is circa 5,000,000,000 years.

I'm willing to put money on it as well. In the next 100 years, if the Earth hasn't blown up or the rapture hasn't happened, those who predicted it will happen should give all their life-savings to my descendants, since the destructionists have no use for the money right?

Answer 3

They are both. Plus for the first time we have acquired the capability to annihilate ourselves. Travel has increased exponentially in comparison with earlier times. Compare the wheel of Pharaoh's day with that of G. Washington's. Now compare them with a satellite.

Knowledge has increased greatly as well. The computer itself can feed billions knowledge simultaneously. An event can happen now and change the world in minutes. And there is an enormous amount of stress, hatred, and tension.

This was written about in the bible thousands of years before it happened. "But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase." Daniel 12:4.

God bless

Answer 4

If you want to see signs, they will be there. They've been there for ever since people have been looking for them. The end of times predictions have been there for many centuries, even millenniums, and they never came true so far.
http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm
Of course, once upon a time humanity and the earth will suffer because of some mega disaster, and people will say that's the revelation, or biblical apocalypse, but it will be nothing like that. Disaster just happen on earth by meteorites or (super-) volcanoes and things like that. There will be no god involved, but possibly humans when they warm up the planet and make lots of war.

Answer 5

Certainly a reasonable suggestion.

However, I don't think that necessarily means that something is not a sign. I do believe that the story in Revelation is the truth in that God does have a plan to bring about an end to our current existence on earth. I don't have a clue when that will happen and I'm pretty sure that God (through Jesus and others) made it pretty clear that NO ONE can predict when it will happen.

A few of the signs that the end times have already started will be obvious to those that know the prophecy, but I don't think it is possible to know from "signs" that it is coming! "Thief in the night" and all that...if you look at signs and think that the seven year "tribulation" will begin on XX date, you're bound to be wrong because if you knew a thief would rob you on XX date, you'd be ready for it.

Instead, the message is clear that we should all be prepared for it to come TODAY...trying to predict the time so you can have time to prepare yourself is NOT the correct strategy when it comes to interpreting signs!

Answer 6

Put it this way:
If the end of the world WAS proven to be just around the corner, whether or not Jesus was coming back, would you choose to live your life differently?
If so, why aren't you making that change anyway?
Every day is the last for thousands of people worldwide, and it's up to us to choose to make the very best of the time we are given.
If I believe in Christ, I would be right to await his coming, and look for signs. I would be right to rejoice if I felt in my heart that the Kingdom of God was close at hand, but I would be foolish to presume that because the Judgement day was coming that I should make any change to the way I live my life.

Or to cut a long story short, we Christians should be living our lives in God's Kingdom by the power of his Holy Spirit every day of our lives. One day will be the last. We should have had plenty of practice exalting our coming King by then!!!

Answer 7

Is your view fairly represented by the following?


But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.




But for the children of light it is said, But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Answer 8

Yes and there are more people on earth who can report events.
From a religious viewpoint, we have lived in the 'end times' since the time of Jesus.

Answer 9

the end times , will begin with the rupture of the christian church .it's a little more complicated then people think ,read through revelations and you will get an idea of what is to come and how .

Answer 10

Those who seek to end of their world - Evangelist - are in fact supplying money to Jewish settlers - to make Israel resemble the gospels in Revelation, and are thus helping to end the world by keeping the third world war on the brink.