anyone else feel like Jesus' second coming is right around the corner?

May be yes may be no

It could be yes it could be no.

Another Lazarus said:

Yes, the Beast has been revealed to the whole world.

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And he is...?

Gabriel has actually revealed where the antichrist will come from.

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Tracy City, Tennessee?

AlasBabylon said:

.One of my dates of interest is May 9th, 2018

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Then you have my personal guarantee that our Lord will not return on that day.

Lybrah said:

No, I really feel that He will return at least before 2030. I will be disappointed if not. How much worse can the world get?

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Oh, I dunno, like it was a few centuries ago, maybe? Famine, pestilence, ghastly warfare, torture and/or capital punishment for relatively minor offences, illiteracy the norm, medicine nonexistent by today's standards, ridiculously short life expectancies, most of the world mired in paganism, women treated as chattels in most cultures, a majority of the children born didn't survive to adulthood, unwanted children simply murdered, or "exposed" to starve (especially girls), rank superstition normal amongst the uneducated, which is to say the vast majority of the population, on and on. "Ah, the Good Old Days", right? Yeah, right. Sorry, but the "things have never been this bad before" schtick is unalloyed hogwash. We're all unimaginably better off than our ancestors were. Is there still sin and unbelief? Yep, that's the nature of fallen humanity. We're all of us sinners (not just those guys over there). So if our Lord was waiting to return when things had become as bad as they were going to He missed His window, because conditions for the average human being on this planet have improved by leaps and bounds, even in my lifetime.

Handmaid for Jesus said:

Trust me. You just don't want to know the answer to that question.

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Any history buff can show you myriad examples of times far, far, far worse than these. But who reads history anyway?

JackRT said:

I suppose that you have never read history?

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History? Whassat? A lot of years ago I worked for a pharmacist who had been in practice during the Spanish Flu epidemic. The flu swept through the new DuPont company towwn of Old Hickory, Tennessee, and killed thousands of people who had swarmed in to work at the huge new munitions plant they had built for WW1. They literally stacked the bodies of the dead like cordwood. Doc said the only medicine they had that was any good at all was aspirin to try and reduce the fever. No antibiotics, so opportunistic infections probably killed more people than the actual flu did. 20 to 50 MILLION people died from the flu worldwide, and they estimate that 1/3 of the world's population had it. My grandfather survived it, after a week or so of being raving mad from the fever. He had to get back to the fields after that, but he was so weak that he had to lie down between the rows and rest long enough to get his strength back to do a few more minutes work. This, of course, was while my great uncle was being gassed in France, although he wasn't one of the 20 million or so killed in that war. He survived to return to California, but mustard gas had left him a physical wreck. And of course, Europe was left a wreck as well, with Russia falling to the Communists, Germany to the Nazis, Italy to the Fascists. There was a brief interval between one nightmarish war and another, with more millions upon millions ground under the wheels of the juggernaut of global war.

And these folks just can't imagine a world any worse off than this one. Right.

Slytherina said:

Is anyone gonna aknowledge this

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The pic says it's supposed to be "in the name of God", which is pronounced "Bism Allah". (Remember Bohemian Rhapsody?) But that's written like this: بسم الله
"Allahu akhbar", which means "God is great", is written like this: الله أك

So whatever squigglery that was isn't what it claims to be, which doesn't surprise me at all. I think the little crossed swords cartoon was the first giveaway.

Handmaid for Jesus said:

I know. And the Muslims wear this, guess where, on the right arm and on the forehead.

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Since that appears to be gibberish, I doubt that Muslims wear it anywhere at all.

Slytherina said:

It is Arabic. ''Allahu Akbar'' means ''God is Greater'' or ''In the name of God.''

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Two different phrases.

AlasBabylon said:

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Jesus' second coming and the resurrection of the dead could happen at any time !!

One of my dates of interest is May 9th, 2018.

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it is now may 9

christine40 said:

it is now may 9

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Ironically, my May 9 topic was moved to another sub-forum.

Three days in May were of special interest to me... May 9, May 14 and May 19. From my perspective, all three are important sign posts to Jesus' return.


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Jipsah said:

History? Whassat? A lot of years ago I worked for a pharmacist who had been in practice during the Spanish Flu epidemic. The flu swept through the new DuPont company towwn of Old Hickory, Tennessee, and killed thousands of people who had swarmed in to work at the huge new munitions plant they had built for WW1. They literally stacked the bodies of the dead like cordwood. Doc said the only medicine they had that was any good at all was aspirin to try and reduce the fever. No antibiotics, so opportunistic infections probably killed more people than the actual flu did. 20 to 50 MILLION people died from the flu worldwide, and they estimate that 1/3 of the world's population had it. My grandfather survived it, after a week or so of being raving mad from the fever. He had to get back to the fields after that, but he was so weak that he had to lie down between the rows and rest long enough to get his strength back to do a few more minutes work. This, of course, was while my great uncle was being gassed in France, although he wasn't one of the 20 million or so killed in that war. He survived to return to California, but mustard gas had left him a physical wreck. And of course, Europe was left a wreck as well, with Russia falling to the Communists, Germany to the Nazis, Italy to the Fascists. There was a brief interval between one nightmarish war and another, with more millions upon millions ground under the wheels of the juggernaut of global war.

And these folks just can't imagine a world any worse off than this one. Right.

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This is quite the awesome story Jipsah, thanks for sharing it. Sometimes we in the modern era can tend to forget the nightmares of the past. From the Foxe Book days during the dark ages, to the wars and rumors of wars and pestilences at the begining of the 20th century.

Jipsah said:

No antibiotics, so opportunistic infections probably killed more people than the actual flu did. 20 to 50 MILLION people died from the flu worldwide, and they estimate that 1/3 of the world's population had it. My grandfather survived it, after a week or so of being raving mad from the fever. He had to get back to the fields after that, but he was so weak that he had to lie down between the rows and rest long enough to get his strength back to do a few more minutes work.

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But do you think there's any chance that this business could have been the pestilence that Jesus mentions from Matthew 24?


World War 1:

And then famines and pestilences:


The most devastating epidemic in recorded world history.


And the end was NOT yet during those times.

Could Jesus have been placing a 20th century time stamp on the Olivet?

Jipsah said:

Any history buff can show you myriad examples of times far, far, far worse than these. But who reads history anyway?

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But are you sure it's our point of view that matters?

Worse times for humanity? Or is it a worse time for God that we should be recognizing or worried about?

About half way through Revelation 13, it talks about the composite beast opening it's mouth to blaspheme God and His dwelling place and those who live in Heaven. And these are happening during a time when the majority of "people" are saying peace and safety and are thinking everything is fine.

Check out this article from Tennessee:


And shapes their sexual templates.

"She" was "assigned" male at birth:





"Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

Their kids will be starving at every street corner.

Not for a famine of food, but for a famine of the Word.


The child on the cover is Avery Jackson, a 9-year-old transgender girl from Kansas City.
“The best thing about being a girl is, now I don’t have to pretend to be a boy,” Avery says in the cover quote.

Many commented on the young age of Avery, who was assigned male at birth but has lived socially as a girl since she turned 5. “We’re cheering on Avery Jackson, a 9-year-old transgender girl,” wrote LGBT advocacy organization Freedom For All USA.

Peaceful Sabbath.

Braydeno said:

With all the chaos, terrorism, rumours of war, list goes on... it's pretty hard not to feel like the world is coming to an end. There's so much sin its ridiculous, the mainstream media promotes sin. There's sin literally everywhere. It looks like there's a lot prophesies being fulfilled in the middle east. I just got this strong strong, feeling, that Jesus is close to coming around the corner.
Simple question,... am I the only one who feels this way?

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June 7, 2018 is a significant day. Jerusalem was recaptured on that day. May 14, 1948 was a significant day, Israel became a nation. So we have 70 years since that day and a full 50 year anniversary for Jerusalem next month. According to Psalm 90:10, one generation is 70 years (unless you are strong, then 80). We've had upheaval in many Muslim countries since Dec. 2010 starting with Tunisia, then like dominoes, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Syria, etc. Revolts leading to leaders who have been in charge for decade to be removed (plucked) from their thrones. The little horn will emerge and unite 10 nations (Islamic, not the EU) to attack Israel. Since we have aborted the Iran deal (which was never ratified by Congress or signed by the Ayatollah), and Russia, Iran, Syria and now Turkey may form an alliance along with other nations, yes we are close.
If you examine the Greek number 666, it looks almost exactly like the Arabic phrase, "In the name of allah". I think they are one in the same. If you examine the symbols used for all the gods worshipped from Egypt, Babylon, Medo-Perisia, Assyria, Greece and Rome, you will see the that the crescent moon and star are used. Lucifer's name means morning star/ crescent moon and so it's also interesting that Satan has his name on the top of every Mosque on the planet.
In Rev. 17:10,11, we see five kingdoms have fallen (Egypt, Babylon, Medo_Persia, Assyria and Greece), one is (at the time of Revelation - about 95 A.D., Rome was in power, which btw was not destroyed in 476 A.D. but was ruled in Constantinople to the 15th century at which time the Ottoman Empire [#7] ruled until 1924. The Beast took it's form with each of those former empires and now the 8th, Islam, which was the 7th has been revived again in these last days.
The mark of the Beast is the Islamic symbol worn on the sleeve or headband. The signature of the Beast is confirmed in Rev. 20:4, chopping off heads. The fact that Islam is causing stress throughout the world, famine and genocide in some countries where millions have fled as refugees, should be enough proof of this indictment.