To all the amillennialists on this forum I want you to answer me these questions please:
What are the signs of the end?
What to look out for before the return of Jesus Christ?
It's how they're perceived by us in Christ and not by those without him.
Now at one point the Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God was coming, so he answered, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or 'There!' For indeed,
the kingdom of God is in your midst." Lk.17:20-21 (Don't ignore this)
Without Christ, they're not perceived at all. Wars and rumors of wars? False Christ and false prophet? Calamity on earth? Two people and one falls over dead? So what?
"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage - right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all." Lk.17:26-27
Are the increasing natural disasters and strange light phenomena in the skies and locust attacks all over the world a sign, OR NOT?
Peter cited signs in the heavenly bodies as a current reality,
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come and it shall come to pass,
that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Act.2:20-21
The sun gives us light and the moon relects it and the great and notable day of the Lord is when the Word of the Lord himself came into this world and extends well beyond it. Up until then, the word of the Lord was turned into darkness (and still is) and his prophets were slain (and still are). But when Peter said,
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain, whom God hath raised up
Acts 2:23-24
They called upon the name of the Lord and were saved. (Act.2:37-41)
As for the locusts who sting men 5 months but the men don't die, they wish for death? I don't know what that is. I do know plagues where men aren't killed are for turning to God, not away from him.
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood Rev.6:12
The people of this world said to the mountains, fall on us. In other words, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to see it. I'd rather be dead than repent.
Do you believe in THE antichrist showing up before Jesus? Is that a sign? Or is that also a past event according to you?
"THE" antichrist? You mean the big one? The baddest one of all? The antichtist to end all antichrists? The one people better bow before, or else, no more foolin around.....they're really gonna get it this time. Is that the one bro?