@Ahwatukee you quoted in your post #170 this "Give it some serious thought and pray about it. "
You should take your own advice.
You quoted Isaiah 13 which is about the fall of Babylon to the Medo-Persian empire and not the end of the world as you mistakenly claim. If you just read the whole chapter you would see that. You did the same thing with the other passages you listed. Put them in the future because you don't understand what your reading. Sorry to sound harsh but I'm a little tired of your insults. God bless you.
It is always a common practice when one is wrong to attempt to discredit the other person. I know very well what I am talking about and it makes sense. What does not make sense is to spiritualize Jesus return to the earth to end the age where He said that every eye would see Him, as well as spiritualizing the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments so that they are not literal future events.
Again, they are not insults, but contention for the truth of God's word.
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Isaiah 13:9-13 See, the
day of the Lord is coming -a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger--to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.
The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. (Matt.24:29, Rev.6:12-16)
The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. (Ditto )
I will punish
the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, rarer than the gold of Ophir. (Mt.24:22)
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of His burning anger.
Compare with Matt.24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days:
‘The sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Sorry, both Isaiah and Matthew are referring to when Jesus returns to the earth to end the age and not the fall of Babylon.
Compare Isaiah 2:19-21 with Revelation 6:12-17 both referring to the same information at the sixth seal.
Isaiah 2:19-21 Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth. In that day men will throw away to the rodents and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship. They will flee to caverns in the rocks and the overhanging crags from dread of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty when He rises to shake the earth. (Rev. sixth seal)
Compare with Revelation 6:12-17
And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind. The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
The day of the Lord will begin after the resurrection of the dead and the living are changed and caught up. At that point the entire church will meet the Lord in the air where He will fulfill His promise in John 14:1-3 to take us back to the Father's house.
