Is the End near? [moved thread]

Jesus_is_Saint said:

Is the end near?

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Yes
but
man has been saying that for a long time.
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Jesus_is_Saint said:

Is the end near?

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Somehow, I doubt it.

Jesus_is_Saint said:

More and more earthquakes, drought, extreme climate, riots (like Hong Kong), wars, diseases, pollution of sea and rivers, sea level rising, and so on.

Is the end near?

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2,000 years of crying apocalypse later...

The Lord said He shall come after the Antichrist comes, and the Mark of the beast. With technology advancing as it is, it seems highly plausible, though none of us know His will regarding this...
"Let no man deceive you by any means:
for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"
2. Thessalonians 2:3
Let us watch and pray.

Jesus_is_Saint said:

More and more earthquakes, drought, extreme climate, riots (like Hong Kong), wars, diseases, pollution of sea and rivers, sea level rising, and so on.

Is the end near?

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I will answer your question this way. We are closer to the end today than we were when I was first saved at nine years old, and certainly nearer than 2000 years ago. Lord Jesus gave us signs to watch, and we see the convergence of the signs today. And we see the acceleration of things but the end is not yet, but possibly sooner than most think.

When you get an approximate time frame nailed down, feel free to go ahead and add it to the list...

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia

Jesus_is_Saint said:

More and more earthquakes, drought, extreme climate, riots (like Hong Kong), wars, diseases, pollution of sea and rivers, sea level rising, and so on.
Is the end near?

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Mountainmanbob said:

Yes
but man has been saying that for a long time.
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Desk trauma said:

2,000 years of crying apocalypse later...

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ThatRobGuy said:

When you get an approximate time frame nailed down, feel free to go ahead and add it to the list...

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia

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Good info TRG!

The End is always near......as is death......

Luke 12:20 But God said unto him, 'Thou foolish one! this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?'

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Biblically, The End happened in the 1st century with the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the Old Covenant Temple and Priesthood as prophecied by our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, which helped the spread of Christianity around the world since then.

Please visit and browse the CF "Eschatology" board, [even if one is a non-Christian and cannot post].

Eschatology - Endtimes & Prophecy Forum

Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke's Temple/Jerusalem Discourses harmonized- Poll Thread

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS 1ST CENTURY ISRAEL, JUDEA AND JERUSALEM

Matthew 24:
6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled;
for all these things must come to pass, but the end<5056> is not yet.
Mark 13:
7 “But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled;
for such things must happen, but the end<5056> is not yet.
Luke 21:
9 “But when you hear of wars and commotions, do not be terrified;
for these things must come to pass first, but the end<5056> is not immediate.”

Luke 21:
11 “And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
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“But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
For there will be Great Distress in the land and wrath upon this people. [1 Thess 2:16]
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1 Peter 4:7
Of all-things yet the End<5056> is nigh<1448>
be sane then, and be sober into the prayers,

Revelation 1:3
Blessed/happy the one reading and the ones hearing the words of the Prophecy and keepings in it having been written,
That the Time/season is nigh<1451>.
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I recommend a good read of Josephus's 1st century "Jewish Wars".

Visual Timeline of the Roman-Jewish War ARTchive @ PreteristArchive.com, The Internet's Only Balanced Look at Preterist Eschatology and Preterism
The Historical Fall of Jerusalem in AD70

CAST OF CHARACTERS: Roman: Emperor Nero | General Vespasian | General Titus | The Roman Army || Jewish: General / Historian Josephus | Factional Leaders in Jerusalem || Administrators of Roman Judea Targets: Jerusalem | Herod's Temple // Maps of the Roman Invasion // Theological Timeline

CHRONOLOGY IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING THE WAR

Stage 1: Murder of James the Just, "Opposition High Priest" ; Irrevocable Split: 62
Stage 2: General Revolt in Jerusalem; Zealot Occupation of Masada: August-September 66
Stage 3: The Campaign of Cestius Gallus and the Defeat of the Twelfth Legion: October-November 66
Stage 4: End of Collaborative Government, Priesthood ; General Flight: November 66 - March 67
Part 6: Vespasian Subdues Northern and Western Palestine: December 66 - December 68
Part 7: Three-way Power Struggle within Jerusalem After Roman Retreat: January 68 - May 70
Part 8: Romans Breach City Walls and Leave Jerusalem Desolate: May 10 - September 10, 70

The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD

"I consider the Prophecy relative to the destruction of the Jewish nation, if there were nothing else to support Christianity, as absolutely irresistible."
(Mr. Erskine's Speech, at the Trial of Williams, for publishing Paine's Age of Reason)

History records few events more generally interesting than the destruction of Jerusalem, and the subversion of the Jewish state, by the arms of the Romans. -- Their intimate connexion with the dissolution of the Levitical economy, and the establishment of Christianity in the world ; the striking verification which they afford of so many of the prophecies, both of the Old and New Testament, and the powerful arguments of the divine authority of the Scriptures which are thence derived;
the solemn warnings and admonitions which they hold out to all nations, but especially such as are favoured with the light and blessings of REVELATION ; together with the impressive and terrific grandeur of the events themselves......................

Concerning the Temple, our LORD had foretold, particularly, that, notwithstanding their wonderful dimensions, there should "not be left one stone upon another that should not be thrown down ;" and, accordingly, it is recorded, in the Talmud, and by Maimonides, that Terentius Rufus, captain of the army of Titus, absolutely ploughed up the foundations of the Temple with a ploughshare. Now, also, was literally fulfilled that prophecy of Micah- "Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes (i. e. for your wickedness,) be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the LORD's house as the high places of the forest." (Micah iii. 12) Thus awfully complete an ever, beyond example, were the calamities which befel the Jewish nation, and especially the city of Jerusalem. With what truth, then, did our LORD declare, that there should "be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world, no, nor ever shall be !" (Matt. xxiv. 21.) Such was the prediction : the language in which Josephus declares its fulfillment is an exact counterpart to it :
"If the misfortunes," says he, " of all nations, from the beginning of the world, were compared with those which befel the Jews, they would appear far less in comparison ;"
and again, "No other city ever suffered such thing's, as no other generation , from the beginning of the world, was ever more fruitful in wickedness."
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Titus sieges Jerusalem on Feast of Passover/Destroyer in Revelation
Matthew 24 Mount of Olives and Titus's 10th Legion on Mt Olives 70ad

Handmaid for Jesus said:

I will answer your question this way. And we see the acceleration of things but the end is not yet, but possibly sooner than most think.

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Hello HfJ.....are you talking about the End spoken by Jesus in the 70ad Olivet Discourse?

Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke's Temple/Jerusalem Discourses harmonized- Poll Thread

Matthew 24:3
Yet of Him sitting on the Mount of the Olives, the Disciples came toward to Him according to own saying "be telling to us! when shall these be being?
and what the sign of Thy parousia<3952> and full-end/consummation<4930> of the Age?
Mark 13
4 Tell us! when these shall be?
and what the sign whenever may be being about<3195> all these to be fully-concluded<4931>.

"Ye will hear of battles and rumors of battles" 1st century Judea

All 3 mention "the End".
Matt 24:8 and Mark 13:8 has
"All these are the beginning of sorrows.”
Some versions leave out "pestilences" in Matt 24:7.
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Matthew 24:6
“Yet ye shall be being about to be hearing battles and hearings of battles, be seeing! be not be being troubled<2360>, for is binding to becoming,
but not as yet the End<5056>
Mark 13:7
“Yet whenever ye should be hearing battles and hearings of battles, be seeing! be not be being troubled for is binding to be becoming,
but not as yet the End<5056>
Luke 21:9
“Yet whenever ye should be hearing battles and tumults<181>, no may be being frightened<4422>, for is binding these to be becoming,
but not immediately the End<5056>

Visual Timeline of the Roman-Jewish War ARTchive
The Historical Fall of Jerusalem in AD70

"..probably the greatest single slaughter in ancient history."
ROMAN SIEGE AND SACK OF JERUSALEM

TRACKING THE FIRST JEWISH REVOLT FROM A MILITARY POINT OF VIEW
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The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD

m not buying the whole end thing in the Bible that's just me

AfterThought said:

m not buying the whole end thing in the Bible that's just me

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A poster notes that each day brings us one day closer to the end.

Every single day is the end of the world for someone..

Jesus_is_Saint said:

More and more earthquakes, drought, extreme climate, riots (like Hong Kong), wars, diseases, pollution of sea and rivers, sea level rising, and so on.

Is the end near?

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I believe there's supposed to be peace in the middle East for 100 years. Before the end comes.