How long ago did people start saying, "These are the End Times!"?

Question

Does it coincide with the date currency started being produced?

Answer 1

Jesus was saying it even during his own lifetime, if the bible can be believed....

Answer 2

Just before 1914 and the first world war someone said it was the last days. but at that time everything was going pretty good and so it was thought of as a joke. War would never be because of the gattleing gun and to many scary weapons.
We were solveing the problems of mankind.
Then the war broke out and a horrible plague of diseases went through the world and more died from the spanish flu then died in the war. So people took a second look and said
"hay those people may have something there"
Followed by the 30's and the horrible depression where millions died of starvation. Most of China died from starvation. The 40's brought World War 2 with all of its horribleness. So the preaching continued down through the Korean war, then the vietnam war.
Since then we had a long period of peace. Never was their peace in the middle east but in some countries.
Never has their been a time period since 1914 that war has not been somewhere in the world.
It also said that generation would not pass away that saw the start of the great tribulation and today they would be 94.
Remember that NOah preached 120 years before the flood.
It was supose to be at a time no one expected.
today everyone views this prophecy as a joke.
Very few actually believe it.

Answer 3

Currency was being produced before people were making "end times" statements. Those didn't start until there was a feeling of persecution among a monotheistic religion most prevalent in the under-classes of the Roman Empire.....

Answer 4

It only happened after Christianity was introduced into the Roman Empire. The Armaggedon story in Revelations was the inspiration for the End of Days.
The early Christians living in pagan Rome, thought they were living near the end. A world full of strange gods and brutal cruelty.
Then the Christian Romans thought there time must be the end, when the pagan barbarians penetrated their borders and sacked Rome, and the Empire itself collapsed.

Then came the people living after the wreck of Rome in the year 666, the first calendar inspired doom. The year 1000 was the next landmark for a prophesied Armaggedon.

Answer 5

Nope. It goes back in time centuries.

Specific case I can remember off hand without having to search for them - during the plague eras in Europe- with more than 50% of the population dying due to plague, starvation and other illnesses related, a lot of people thought it was the end of the world.

I believe there were also doomsayers at every eclipse back in the city-state era, and anytime something went abnormally weather wise, someone was bound to be declaiming it as the end of the world.

Answer 6

2 Peter 3:3-10

3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Answer 7

The Apostle Paul thought he was living in the end times. So have some people in every generation since.

Answer 8

I'm going to say this again because people need to know. THE LORD IS COMING!

2 Peter 3:8-9 BUT DON'T FORGET THIS, DEAR FRIENDS, THAT A DAY OR A THOUSAND YEARS FROM NOW IS LIKE TOMORROW TO THE LORD.
HE ISN'T REALLY BEING SLOW ABOUT HIS PROMISED RETURN, EVEN THOUGH IT SOMETIMES SEEMS THAT WAY.
BUT HE'S WAITING FOR THE GOOD REASON THAT HE IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, AND HE IS GIVING MORE TIME FOR SINNERS TO REPENT.

2 TIMOTHY 4:3 FOR THERE IS GOING TO BE A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WON'T LISTEN TO THE TRUTH, BUT WILL GO AROUND LOOKING FOR TEACHERS WHO WILL TELL THEM WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR.

RIGHT NOW IS THE TIME WHEN THE LORD WILL HAVE HIS PEOPLE GO OUT AND SPREAD THE GOSPEL EVERYWHERE, TO EVERYONE IN THE WORLD SO THAT THOSE WHO ARE TOLD THE TRUTH (THE WORD OF GOD) WILL HAVE TIME TO EITHER ACCEPT IT OR REFUSE IT. IT'S THEIR CHOICE!
WHAT WILL YOU CHOOSE............
ETERNAL LIFE OR DEATH............ THINK LONG AND HARD ABOUT THIS BECAUSE IT'S NOTHING TO LAUGH ABOUT.
I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU!

Answer 9

They were saying it in the 15th Century with the plague, as depicted by the artist Hieronymus Bosch, before that I don't know. He is well quoted as saying 'These are the end of days'.

Answer 10

Christians have been saying it since the time of Christ. The idea of the end of the world and the "End Times" predates Christ. It is an old idea and ain't happened yet.

Answer 11

It was probably said the first time anyone had a bad day.