I know there are a whole bunch of anti-Christian types on this site, but that's not surprising so I'll say it anyway.
We're clearly approaching the End of Days. The rapidly-imminent Tech Singularity is pretty obviously the anti-Christ's One-World-Government Beast System. You'll have to take the Mark, or starve. The plague-of-"locusts" from the Bottomless Pit, with the power to hurt humanity for five months, are clearly some nano/bio-tech horror gone wrong. The description of the "whole world" seeing these events, which wouldn't have ever made sense before, are now clearly achievable through mass-media and global instantaneous communication. The stage is set for this like never before.
I think it's ridiculous that, though some peasant Galilean fisherman from 1900 years ago saw all this happen, and wrote it down in one of the most famous literary works of all time, so many people - even on this site - pretend that we don't know exactly how this will all go down. It's all right there, in the Apocalypse.
And of course, despite the fact that it's all unfolding according to this obvious plan, so many people continue to reject Jesus Christ - which is also exactly what Revelation says will happen.
It is the peak of hubris for a mortal to claim to have direct knowledge of God's plan.
I wonder how many millions of times people have incorrectly guessed that it was the End Times?
You may have heard about the Black Death (the disease); most people thought the world was ending then. Men would walk from town to town, self-flagellating while shouting for everyone to repent because Jesus is coming back any moment now!
Then some time passed... and Jesus didn't come back....
Then this thing called WW1 happened. There were millions of people across the planet who probably thought that was the End Times. Didn't happen. Then WW2- also didn't happen. Then the Cold War- no End Times.
The flaw in prophecy, besides being absurdly non-specific, is that it forces a person to look at it with confirmation bias. "The prophecy says that the world will end when a bad guy rises to power." For you, a Trump supporter I presume, you would read that prophecy as being confirmed because Biden rose to power. A Christian Biden supporter would interpret that entirely differently from you.
Prophecy is not fact. Nothing is set in stone. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
Again, no specific attack against the content of the material, only vague discouragement of referring to it.
Typical kike.
I also don't know why he thought a religious ... person like yourself would listen to sound logic.
You may have heard about the Black Death (the disease); most people thought the world was ending then. Men would walk from town to town, self-flagellating while shouting for everyone to repent because Jesus is coming back any moment now!
Do you know when the black death happened? Do you know the situation surrounding Christianity during that time?
The Catholic church had all Bibles that were in any other language besides Latin burned, possession was penalty of death. Almost a thousand years at the time of the plague that people had not had access to a Bible they could read. Only the priests and maybe wealthy spoke Latin. The masses could only know God through the church, which I'm sure you have enough awareness to know how corrupt it was at that point. It was that day's propaganda control network. The same entity pulling strings today was pulling them then.
It's ridiculous to claim that as a reasonable comparison to today's awareness of the Bible. Not only are people capable of reading it, but there are insane numbers of references easily at the finger tips for everything from crosschecking translations, ancient Hebrew meanings, similar terms that might've been lost through a tiny dot or tilde, great scholars works and insights connecting events, locations, historical value and meaning...
None of those other times in history were people able to fully grasp what the bible was saying. Poor translations, misunderstanding, fuckery from kikes, misleading clergy in their schools who then mislead their congregation through ignorance due to trust of authority... there were many things which stood in the way for people to fully understand the word of God.
Those things no longer stand in the way. All is clear. No other time in history have things lined up with what the bible has said. There are a few things that haven't happened yet, but they're quickly being remedied. One of the most difficult to cross off the list was that every person on the earth having heard of Jesus. Clinton, Gates, missionaries, technology, forced immigration, all have drastically increased the speed of which this is happening.
It is the peak of hubris for a mortal to claim to have direct knowledge of God's plan.
God tells you exactly what his plan is. There is no hubris.
Perhaps this is what you tell yourself to ignore your inner voice. You have one. We all do. The world wears it down and drowns it. I hope you are able to humble yourself and listen to it again.
Then again there is a 12,000 year clock cycle that sounds a lot like whats in revelation. But maybe this one will by a dry fart and not a full out diarrheal explosion. Its not fate. It's a cycle, every 12,000 years we pass through galactic current sheet.
Well if there is a 12,000 year "cycle", I don't think it'd be anything like the last one.
Think about the impact that mankind has had on the earth in general over the last 12,000 years. I'm not a "global warming" believer, but it's undeniable that man has bent the earth into a different shape, and continues to do so.
This would also be the first time where there is massed, organized resistance to whatever cataclysm we're facing; like if it's a meteor, we'll see it coming and the world would theoretically unite to try and deal with it before it kills all of us. Look at the fake virus- everyone came together to "fight' that...
I thought this was interesting re: mark of the beast -https://avoidthemark.com/2020/03/17/what-is-the-mark-of-the-beast/
This link has a lot of good information, but it's downplaying the historicity of the view that the antiChrist will also be a particular man. It's actually the Traditional understanding, going back demonstrably to the earliest centuries of the Church. I'm Orthodox, and standard Orthodox understanding can be found like this:
Fr. Seraphim also observed how we can be following “external wisdom” when we get caught up in exalted ideas: “It is the fashion now to learn about the Jesus Prayer, to read the Philokalia, to go ‘back to the Fathers.’ These kinds of things also will not save us—they are external. They may be helpful if they are used rightly, but if they become your passion, the first thing you are after, then they become externals which lead not to Christ, but to Antichrist.”[11]
Fr. Seraphim was one with the nineteenth-century prophet St. Ignatius Brianchaninov in teaching that only those who feel the Kingdom of God in their own hearts will be able to recognize the true nature of Antichrist when he comes. By contrast, Fr. Seraphim stated that “the ‘super-Orthodox’ of today can very easily become the prey of Antichrist.” In a few places he told how this might happen: “Vladimir Soloviev, in his ‘Short Story of Antichrist,’ ingeniously suggests that Antichrist, in order to attract Orthodox conservatives, will open a museum of all Christian antiquities. Perhaps the very images of Antichrist himself (Apoc. 13:14) will be in good Byzantine style—this should be a sobering thought for us.
“The Antichrist must be understood as a spiritual phenomenon. Why will everyone in the world want to bow down to him? Obviously, it is because there is something in him which responds to something in us—that something being a lack of Christ in us. If we will bow down to him (God forbid that we do so!), it will be because we will feel an attraction to some kind of external thing, which might even look like Christianity, since ‘Antichrist’ means the one who is ‘in place of Christ’ or looks like Christ.”[12]
In particular, Fr. Seraphim saw in the unwarranted “Orthodox” attack on Blessed Augustine a sign of the externalism that will lead to acceptance of Antichrist. Augustine’s “overly logical” doctrines, of which Fr. Seraphim himself said he was “no great admirer,” were only the external, intellectual aspect of a man whose heart was clearly Orthodox. As Fr. Seraphim wrote in a letter, “The one main lovable and Orthodox thing about him is his Orthodox feeling, piety, love for Christ, which comes out so strongly in his non-dogmatic works like his Confessions (the Russian Fathers also love the Soliloquies). To destroy Augustine, as today’s critics are trying to do, is to help to destroy also this piety and love for Christ.... I myself fear the cold hearts of the ‘intellectually correct’ much more than any errors you might find in Augustine. I sense in these cold hearts a preparation for the work of Antichrist (whose imitation of Christ must also extend to ‘correct theology’!); I feel in Augustine the love of Christ.”[13]
From the Spiritual Counsels of the Blessed Elder Lawrence of Chernigov (Russia)
The God-pleasing Holy Elder used to say, "Blessed, and thrice-blessed is the man who does not desire, and who will not see the abominable face of the Antichrist. He who sees him and hears his blasphemous words, his promises of all earthly treasures, he will be deceived and will go to meet him and bow down to him. He will perish together with him and will burn in the eternal fire."
They asked the Elder, "How will all this come to pass?" The holy Elder said with tears, "In the holy place, the abomination of desolation will stand. And it will show the foul seducers of the world. And they will be deceiving the people who have fallen away from God, and will perform false miracles. And after them, the Antichrist will appear. And the whole world will see him at the same time."
Then the fathers asked the Elder, "Where in the holy place? In the church?" The Venerable one answered, "Not in the church, but in every house. In the corner, where the holy icons now stand and hang, there will stand captivating devices which will delude the people. Many will say, 'We need to watch and listen to the news.' And behold, in the news the Antichrist will appear. He will mark his people with the seal, and he will hate Christians. The last persecutions of the Christian soul who will refuse to receive the mark of Satan will begin. A Christian will not be able to neither buy nor sell anything. But despair not, the Lord will not abandon His children. There is no need to fear.
So it's not impossible that the antiChrist will not be a specific person. But it is a perspective well-supported by the Faithful of all historical ages - not merely the Tim LeHaye Left Behind set !
You and a million other religious people have been screaming this message for as long as humans have been around.
When the next year comes around and we're all still fine, you're not gonna apologize and admit you were wrong.
Listen, Fucknut, we are going to die. One way or another.
Our lives should be spent in preparation for death.
Whether we die before or after the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, our ultimate Eternal fates have one thing in common. We're all going to be brought before the Dread Judgment Seat of Christ, Who will weigh our deeds in the life He gave to us, and either tell us "well done", or "get thee away from Me".
Or we'll die and nothing will happen. Just like you believe happens to all life other than humans.
It's a nice thought that we could do things and get eternal paradise. But idk how you look at reality and actually believe that will happen
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