Is the end getting closer?

[Arrabon]

Now, I'm not one of those "Chicken (Sorry @Chicken coop2) little types", that runs around screaming the world is ending, and I don't stand on a street corner with a banner that proclaims the "end is coming."

BUT, at my age, nearly 80, and what I experience now as opposed to what I grew up with beginning in the 40's, there has been a "gigantic radical change" in nearly every aspect of our culture. Even the weather is changing radically, and so is our home, the earth, changing radically.

Everything on this earth has an expiration date, and so does the earth. Like all of us, and everything on earth, the earth is starting to disintigrate slowly. Giant weather changes and polar regions melting at unprecidented rates.

Like all of us, it's days are numbered. The world calls it "global warming", but God calls all what is happening "Warnings" of what's to come.

I live in Oregon and the weather has been changing here slowly for years. But this year the weather went "ballistic", and there is more to come.

A lot of what God says will happen hasn't happened yet, but there is more to come as God's word tells us, and in His patience He is warning us, but things that do happen seem to be coming at us faster and faster.

During this last winter, we had drastic icy cold weather like we hadn't seen in over 40 years, and then this last weekend we had the hottest weather ever recorded in Oregon - EVER!

Imagine parts of Oregon being 119 degrees, while Portland was 115 degrees.

The weather people were calling it "EPIC.", and the heatwave we're expecting they called "EPIC" also - Unprecidented !!

To me, God is moving in more dramatic ways as a warning that the time is getting shorter, and Christs return is getting closer.

If you watch the news you have probably seen Portland and all the downtown violence in the streets at night.

Much of Portland's downtown is boarded up, and the homeless are living all over town, and people are refusing to go there. Much of it looks like an embattled town in a war zone

I never thought in my lifetime I would see things that are happening, like what I've seen and experienced.

You should see Gay Pride here just having a blowout celebration, and it's all over the local TV and supported by the local news.

Lastly, this is a time for Christians to be excited and talk with people and see what they think. Are they scared? Has the pandemic had a real scary effect on their lives. Are they out of work? Out of money and food  ?Is their rent past due?

ANY THOUGHTS??

Edited June 29, 2021 by Arrabon

[missmuffet]

7 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

Now, I'm not one of those "Chicken little types", that runs around screaming the world is ending, and I don't stand on a street corner with a banner that proclaims the "end is coming."

BUT, at my age, nearly 80, and what I experience now as opposed to what I grew up with beginning in the 40's, there has been a "gigantic radical change" in nearly every aspect of our culture. Even the weather is changing radically, and so is our home, the earth, changing radically.

Everything on this earth has an expiration date, and so does the earth. Like all of us, and everything on earth, the earth is starting to disintigrate slowly. Giant weather changes and polar regions melting at unprecidented rates.

Like all of us, it's days are numbered. The world calls it "global warming", but God calls all what is happening "Warnings" of what's to come.

I live in Oregon and the weather has been changing here slowly for years. But this year the weather went "ballistic", and there is more to come.

 

During this last winter, we had drastic icy cold weather like we hadn't seen in over 40 years, and then this last weekend we had the hottest weather ever recorded in Oregon - EVER!

Imagine parts of Oregon being 119 degrees, while Portland was 115 degrees.

The weather people were calling it "EPIC.", and the heatwave we're expecting they called "EPIC" also - Unprecidented !!

To me, God is moving in more dramatic ways as a warning that the time is getting shorter, and Christs return is getting closer.

If you watch the news you have probably seen Portland and all the downtown violence in the streets at night.

Much of Portland's downtown is boarded up, and the homeless are living all over town, and people are refusing to go there. Much of it looks like an embattled town in a war zone

I never thought in my lifetime I would see things that are happening, like what I've seen and experienced.

ANY THOUGHTS??

No one except God knows when the rapture of the Church and the 7 year tribulation will come. It feels to me like we are in the end times and we are getting closer to the time God will bring His wrath and judgment to this earth. All I have to do is look around. 

[Arrabon]

7 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

No one except God knows when the rapture of the Church and the 7 year tribulation will come. It feels to me like we are in the end times and we are getting closer to the time God will bring His wrath and judgment to this earth. All I have to do is look around. 

@missmuffet

I totally agree.

In these last days we have the opportunity to share with people, and mention what is happening all around us, and maybe ask them what they think.

Maybe God will open doors for us to share Christ in these last days, which may linger for some time until as you said, only God knowing when the end happens , as in the days of Noah, and Christ comes back for His redeemed.

[Riverwalker]

Every second it is getting closer....but is it near?  I do not know

When I was first saved in My Twenties...I was positive it was soon

When I hit thirty I was convinced it was just around the corner

When I was forty  I was pretty sure

When I was fifty I was of the mind

Now that I am on the other side of sixty,  I am not sure which will come first, Him coming to me, or me going to Him

But here there or in the air....I will be with Him

THAT being said....the words of Paul  ring truer today than they ever have

2nd Timothy 3:3 But know this, that in the last days [a]perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power.

The Post Emergent, New Age Universalists nonsense seems to meet the conditions of verse 5

[Alive]

I don't know when the Day of the Lord will come and I have no sense of soon or not so soon, although I lean toward not so soon.

I see nothing in current events that leads me to think otherwise. What we are seeing contemporarily is a mere blip.

At the same time as there is this bit of lawlessness in areas of western civ---the Gospel is being brought en masse to huge populations in other areas despite governments.

Global warming such as it is--is not even on my radar. Weather changes--always has. No biggie.

I think some of us see what we want to see.

In fact, the lives of people the world over has been improving remarkably since the Industrial Revolution without ceasing---over all.

Even the poorest in much of the world are rich---but most importantly is how the Gospel is getting to all corners and world communication is increasing daily. Information dissemination.

This reminds me of the fullness of times when Jesus arrived on the scene. The known world was ripe for information dissemination because of the Greek Hellenization and then the Romans that made world travel easy and safe as well as synagogues in nearly every city and town. I hope and believe that we will see many more come to Christ. Many more.

 

THe Gutenberg Press and now radio, televisions and the internet!

[missmuffet]

5 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

@missmuffet

I totally agree.

In these last days we have the opportunity to share with people, and mention what is happening all around us, and maybe ask them what they think.

Maybe God will open doors for us to share Christ in these last days, which may linger for some time until as you said, only God knowing when the end happens , as in the days of Noah, and Christ comes back for His redeemed.

Just like you these last couple of days have been a nightmare with 111 and 113 degree weather. 

[Justin Adams]

11 minutes ago, Alive said:

I hope and believe that we will see many more come to Christ. Many more.

You are correct brother. We should be about the business of spreading the Gospel.

[Arrabon]

39 minutes ago, Alive said:

I hope and believe that we will see many more come to Christ. Many more.

@Alive

AMEN BROTHER. AMEN !!!

[Hopefully]

The thing that also stands out to me besides the weather and the pride movement  is moving from cash to digital. It seems if cash  is done away with more prophecy will unfold.

[Arrabon]

I remember hearing people talk like I have in this OP and thought to myself, boy am I staying away from them.

But for me now, with all I have seen and experienced the last 5 or so years, it seems like I am becoming one of THEM.

So if you want to stay away from me, and think I'm "Cookie",I don't blame you.

Edited June 29, 2021 by Arrabon