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Revelation 20:7-9
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.
Obviously for anyone to believe we're almost there, they would have to believe that we're currently living in the millennium, which I realize many people do not, but even from those people I ask to consider what they believe this time will look like and contribute to the conversation on that level.
I believe we're currently in the thousand years and I believe the thousand years started sometime in the first century AD. Not sure if it was at Jesus' resurrection, or the destruction of Jerusalem, but no matter. The point is, I believe that the next major event to happen on the prophetic timeline is the end of the thousand years, which is precipitated by the release of Satan. So what would this look like?
I believe what I'm seeing in the world today looks very much like we're nearing the end of the thousand years and I'll explain why. Revelation 20:9 tells us that Satan will do three things.
Deception
The deception that we're seeing now in the world is at a level I've not seen in my life time (I'm 49 years old). Just 12 months ago I felt that 9/11 was the greatest deception to ever be perpetrated on the general public, although the "climate emergency" talk was a close second in my mind. Today our governments and media lie to us every single day about everything and anything, we're told that there are no genders, that everybody is racist, that killing unborn babies is a "women's health right" and that demanding a fair election makes you guilty of "ripping up the constitution" and in need of "deprogramming". In the eyes of many today, truth is hateful and evil is righteous.
Gathering
The redefinition of gender, the erasing of lines between male and female, the fight for sexual immorality and the accusations of "hate speech", with its fluid definition, getting nearer and nearer to the teachings of our Bible and it's not hard to see where this is going. Public individuals are already calling for the Bible to be classified as hate speech, and how long will it be before elected politicians make it official? I just can't see this taking more than 5 or 10 years at most.
Surrounding
Clearly this "surrounding" would have to be a spiritual surrounding because Christians live all over the world so it can not be the surrounding of a single city. I imagine this to be the marginalization and indeed criminalization of Christianity, and this, seems very near indeed. Sweden is already jailing pastors for preaching that homosexuality is sinful, California has made it a criminal offense to criticize homosexuality in schools and Scotland's proposed new hate crime bill includes vague language that can easily be used to label the Bible as criminal.
Now to get to the next step I think things would have to get much worse and the Bible would indeed have to be outright banned, and the attacking of Christians not only tolerated but encouraged, so I don't think we're there yet (at least not in western nations) but things seem to be progressing rapidly now so it may not be long.
Other Signs
Other signs that have me thinking we're nearing the end of the age revolve more around science, than faith or the current socio-political climate. The combining of human DNA with animal DNA; Scientists can essentially do it now though it's not widely done. will God allow it? Scientific discoveries, now that the god particle has been discovered and we start talking about time travel and other dimensions; how much will God allow us to discover about the universe? The alien agenda seems to be more and more accepted in the mainstream as if we're "almost ready" for disclosure; will the aliens have a part to play in the final deception?
I personally would be very surprised if we're still here in 2040, and I would be somewhat surprised if we're still here in 2030. Yes, of course, I could be completely wrong (just as my mother was when she was certain that 1987 would be the "year of the rapture" because Hal Lindsey said so) and that's fine. I'm not making a prediction or anything like that. I'm just saying, based on what I'm seeing today, it seems unlikely to me that God will allow us to continue on our current trajectory for much longer.
Is anybody else thinking along these same lines, or am I on an island here?
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.
Obviously for anyone to believe we're almost there, they would have to believe that we're currently living in the millennium, which I realize many people do not, but even from those people I ask to consider what they believe this time will look like and contribute to the conversation on that level.
I believe we're currently in the thousand years and I believe the thousand years started sometime in the first century AD. Not sure if it was at Jesus' resurrection, or the destruction of Jerusalem, but no matter. The point is, I believe that the next major event to happen on the prophetic timeline is the end of the thousand years, which is precipitated by the release of Satan. So what would this look like?
I believe what I'm seeing in the world today looks very much like we're nearing the end of the thousand years and I'll explain why. Revelation 20:9 tells us that Satan will do three things.
- Deceive the nations
- Gather the nations for battle
- Surround the people of God
Deception
The deception that we're seeing now in the world is at a level I've not seen in my life time (I'm 49 years old). Just 12 months ago I felt that 9/11 was the greatest deception to ever be perpetrated on the general public, although the "climate emergency" talk was a close second in my mind. Today our governments and media lie to us every single day about everything and anything, we're told that there are no genders, that everybody is racist, that killing unborn babies is a "women's health right" and that demanding a fair election makes you guilty of "ripping up the constitution" and in need of "deprogramming". In the eyes of many today, truth is hateful and evil is righteous.
Gathering
The redefinition of gender, the erasing of lines between male and female, the fight for sexual immorality and the accusations of "hate speech", with its fluid definition, getting nearer and nearer to the teachings of our Bible and it's not hard to see where this is going. Public individuals are already calling for the Bible to be classified as hate speech, and how long will it be before elected politicians make it official? I just can't see this taking more than 5 or 10 years at most.
Surrounding
Clearly this "surrounding" would have to be a spiritual surrounding because Christians live all over the world so it can not be the surrounding of a single city. I imagine this to be the marginalization and indeed criminalization of Christianity, and this, seems very near indeed. Sweden is already jailing pastors for preaching that homosexuality is sinful, California has made it a criminal offense to criticize homosexuality in schools and Scotland's proposed new hate crime bill includes vague language that can easily be used to label the Bible as criminal.
Now to get to the next step I think things would have to get much worse and the Bible would indeed have to be outright banned, and the attacking of Christians not only tolerated but encouraged, so I don't think we're there yet (at least not in western nations) but things seem to be progressing rapidly now so it may not be long.
Other Signs
Other signs that have me thinking we're nearing the end of the age revolve more around science, than faith or the current socio-political climate. The combining of human DNA with animal DNA; Scientists can essentially do it now though it's not widely done. will God allow it? Scientific discoveries, now that the god particle has been discovered and we start talking about time travel and other dimensions; how much will God allow us to discover about the universe? The alien agenda seems to be more and more accepted in the mainstream as if we're "almost ready" for disclosure; will the aliens have a part to play in the final deception?
I personally would be very surprised if we're still here in 2040, and I would be somewhat surprised if we're still here in 2030. Yes, of course, I could be completely wrong (just as my mother was when she was certain that 1987 would be the "year of the rapture" because Hal Lindsey said so) and that's fine. I'm not making a prediction or anything like that. I'm just saying, based on what I'm seeing today, it seems unlikely to me that God will allow us to continue on our current trajectory for much longer.
Is anybody else thinking along these same lines, or am I on an island here?