Do you follow Eschatology?
Where do you think we are in reference to the soon coming Tribulation and Rapture?
Where do you think we are in reference to the soon coming Tribulation and Rapture?
Well, I'm of course not going to say any day or date, but...
I wouldn't be surprised if Jesus were to return to collect those who belong to HIs Father within the next 30 years. There are a lot of considerations though and some would point to a slightly longer timeframe.
For example: The Hebrew Calander says we're in the year 5784 supposedly calculated from the week of creation. Now, if there is any substance to the thinking that the earth's existence will be akin to the sabbath week...albeit in millenniums instead of days, that would infer that we have maybe a couple of hundred years until we get to that 6,000 year, beginning the 7th millennia. Obviously, I would expect the rapture to occur at that time which would mean that the final week of Daniel tribulation would have started sometime in the previous 7 years.
But the world is getting to be a very restless place, and we are certainly hearing of wars and rumors of wars. We are certainly seeing earthquakes and other catastrophic geologic and meteorologic events in diverse places. But Jesus explained those things as being the birth pains. Those are the indications to the mother that she better get to the hospital because little johnnie is about to fall on the floor. But little johnnie hasn't come yet. How bad can it or will it get.
We see all of this anxiety over immoral sex and hate and anger and division that is just tearing people apart from being able to even live side by side with one another. Jesus said that the love of most will grow cold. Paul wrote of some pretty wicked things going on in a great abundance as we move closer to Jesus' return. But how bad will it get?
So, I see the signs and the prophecies fulfilling. I see the world and its people moving into that day of great deception and great fear and sorrow and pain for the believers, that Jesus said would be coming upon us. Days of great tribulation as has never been seen before nor ever will be. I judge that to be a pretty bad time of tribulation.
But how close are we to Jesus' return? Like I say, I see indications that it could be in the 30-50 years, and I see indication that it may yet be a couple of hundred years. I'm more of the sooner than that mind myself, but it isn't in my time. I can only watch and see. Ticking off prophecies as they are fulfilled. Right now, the greatest prophecy of recent specificity is the return of Israel to their land in 1948. There is a prophecy yet to come that all the nations will rise up against Israel. That's not here yet, but is certainly now a possibility if they unleash a war in the middle east that they can't control.
What are your thoughts on the matter, brother?
Ted
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