A lot of people don't realize it but we are living in the end times. We have been in the last generation since 1948 when Israel became a nation again. The pretribulation rapture theory is a lie. Those who believe in a pretribulation rapture will be caught by surprise by these end times events. The mark of the beast is also being prepared in the form of a digital currency and a microchip implant. I believe that Jesus will return within the next 10 years and possibly within the next 5 years. We are living in the end times and the signs are everywhere.
If by "end times," you mean the end of the last days, then I would agree that we may be living in such times. However, I would mark the beginning a little further back—Industrial Revolution. We have been seeing an unusual shift in human development since the Industrial Age began. Now that we are living in the "Information Age," we have seen human feats reach heights that were never conceived of before.
I think about, for example, how costly sugar was in the late middle-ages. Today, I can drive a few minutes by car to my local supermarket and purchase a pound of sugar for a dollar through their self-check out service. Our age is an unusual age. We have walked the moon, invented television, carry high-tech devices to store images and music anywhere we go, buy food ready cooked upon order, etc. The illiteracy in the West is extremely low, and education is provided for almost everyone. You no longer have to travel far and wide to find a library to access books. Now it is accessible by the touch of a finger. University was difficult to enter then, and usually it was so costly that a family's life-savings was needed to send one child to get a decent education. We live in an unusual time period, so disconnected from our great-grandparents, and alien to most of human history. And we are only going further, peering and capturing pictures into the infinite edges of our cosmos. We can genetically modify our food, and soon it will be easy to do so for our children! Travelling is easier, medicine is more accessible. We live more comfortably than previous kings and aristocrats ever did.
You're currently living in the future that no human prophet could accurately write into words for their time. The Industrial Age was the real turning point in Western civilization, and as a whole, the world. Skepticism is a necessary consequence when knowledge is so accessible and available, but so is deception! Humans haven't quite adapted to this new way of living, and as you and I can tell, we are making a lot of mistakes, albeit, necessary ones. I could go on and on about this.
If you think there was ever a kind of dystopia in history, you're living in it, buddy. Welcome to the age of ages, the sum and culmination of our predecessors, and I wonder...will it continue? God has allowed man to reach unimaginable heights, but why? Is it to show us something? If we had everything we ever wanted, would it make us happy? Or is this the next step in evolution?
