Is the end of the world near?

Question

Why? Why not?

Answer 1

The end of the world as we know it now, but not really the end of the world. I believe there will be great calamity and then Christ will come to reign over the earth and their will be great peace.

Answer 2

The world as we know it. I think so, from the prophacies.

The Earth, I think not there will be a fresh start with a lot less people which will probably result in a massive backward step in science and technology.

This appears to have happened at least once in the past. The Titan peoples were very advanced at the time that they just disappeared, after the war of the giants, Which they surposedly engineered in the first place.

Answer 3

Matthew 24:21,22 shows the great tribulation would cause all flesh to die. that could not have happened until our time period. We are not only on the brink of destroying the environment. But some terrorist organization getting their hands on a bomb. Which could blow up some state and leave the others in a nuclear fall out situation.
Will we stay in a holding pattern like this for many more years? NO
The Russians didn't want to die so the cold war worked.
Now the enemy wants to die and take many with them, so now it is eneviable. in a short time.

Answer 4

End Times, All The Time. 2000 years and counting.

In the early 20th century, my grandmother's shop was closed because everybody believed some endtimer in Montreal. Oops.

Answer 5

No. The Jerusalem temple has to rebuilt first.

Waiting for the King
Jesus' reign will be perfectly fulfilled when he returns as King. "They will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory" (Lk 21:27). Although Christ's victory is definitive, his reign still suffers attack by evil powers. Someday there will be "new heavens and a new earth." Until then, the Church, (with sacraments and institutions) groans and travails. That is why Christians pray "Come, Lord Jesus" (Rev 22:20).

Jesus said that the hour of the glorious messianic kingdom had not yet come (Acts 1:6-7). Therefore, the present age (a time of the Spirit and of witness) is also a time of distress, of evil, and of waiting and watching.

Awaiting Israel's Conversion
We do not know the time of Christ's coming "which the Father has fixed by his own authority" (Acts 1:7). It could happen at any moment or it could be "delayed."
His coming is suspended until he is recognized by "all Israel." Peter said that heaven had to receive Jesus "until the time of universal restoration" (Acts 3:21). Paul said that Israel's heart was hardened until "the full number of Gentiles comes in" (Rom 11:20-26). Finally, there will be Israel's "full inclusion" (Rom 11:12) and God will be "all in all" (Eph 4:13).

The Final Deception - The Antichrist
Before Christ comes, the Church will pass through a final trial which will shake the faith of many (Lk 18:8). This "mystery of inequity" will be a religious deception offering men a solution to all problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme deception will be the Antichrist, a pseudo-Messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God.

This deception always happens when people claim to gain messianic hope within history, when really it can only come from "beyond history" and through the Final Judgment. The Church has rejected both millenarianism and its political form, secular messianism.

Triumph after Trials
The Church will enter her final glory only by following her Lord in his death and Resurrection. This will not be an historic triumph of Church ascendancy, but a victory of God. A final unleashing of evil will cause Christ's Bride to come down from heaven. After worldwide cosmic upheavals, God will triumph over evil by the Last Judgment (Rev 20: 12).

Then - All Gathered for Judgment
Jesus announced the Final Judgment which will reveal the conduct of every person. Our attitude toward our neighbor will disclose our acceptance or rejection of God's grace. Jesus will say, "As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me" (Mt 25:40).
By his death, Jesus acquired the right to pass definitive judgment on all mankind. The Father gave "all judgment to the Son" (Jn 5:22). The Son came "to save and to give life" (Jn 3:17). However, by rejecting Christ's gift, a person can condemn himself for all eternity.
For more information about the return of our Lord please go to this link.
http://www.scborromeo.org/index2.htm

Answer 6

Probably not. People have been proclaiming the end of the world for at least 2000 years and they haven't been right yet.

Answer 7

No, it's quite a few million light-years away. We are actually rather deeply embedded in the middle of a spiral arm of our galaxy, and there are other galaxies visible in all directions. So we're more toward the center than the end.

Oh, wait, I know what you mean, like the Rapture and all? Nah, that's just superstition.

Answer 8

we are living in the end days as prophesized in the bible of revelations and no one knows where or when the world will end or when the rapture comes only god himself can answer that question...

Answer 9

if you mean by "world" the earth... the sun will expand greatly as it runs out of nuclear fuel and engulf the earth... but that's millions of years away

Answer 10

Worlds may come and worlds may go, though souls are everlasting.