Are we actually getting real close to the end of the age?

[NConly]

5 hours ago, warrior12 said:

plug the below lines in the youtube search box and watch a facinating Ai documentary.

 

You’re Not in Control—AI Already Runs the World. #sciencedocumentary

ok I will watch it.

[AdHoc]

23 hours ago, Marilyn C said:

Thanks Ad Hoc,

While I agree with most of your comment, we`ll just have to disagree (at the moment) whether the body actually goes to the `Lake of Fire,` literally and burns forever. Sounds like a pretty good body to be able to keep burning, ay?

So, is it an earthly body, a heavenly one, (spiritual Body like the Lord`s) or?

Aaahhh! All is clear. We appreciate the word "perdition" differently. "Lack of well-being" for me is a state. For you it is physical fire - or at least physical fire gives you cause to disagree. May I put this forward for consideration.

Genesis 1:1 has the earth in perfect order. Genesis 1:2 has it dark and covered with water - sure signs of God's judgment. Noah outlives a flood which covers the whole earth with water ... again. Water immersion turns out to be a judgment on sin (Romans 6). Joshua 24 shows both parties who enter Covenant with God passing through a flood (Josh.24:2, 14). Jesus calls His death a Baptism. So well established is this sign of immersion to be judgment on evil that the metaphor for "perdition"  is the LAKE of fire. The idea of immersion is there, but because of Noah's Covenant, Fire replaces water. The idea is of a living man immersed in fire but never being consumed.

Many scholars maintain that everlasting agony is not in keeping with God's nature. I say that it fits perfectly. The Law of Moses tells all. I steal your sheep. I'm caught. I must return your sheep (restitution) AND I must give you four more sheep (retribution). Men are free to go against God but how will the creature repair the slight on the eternal Creator and then five times over. A mere man showed a finger at the Eternal One. How will he escape eternity. The Polish parent who watched her seven-year-old daughter raped and then disemboweled by the advancing Russian soldiers in 1945 - in which Millennia will her horror abate? Noah's covenant was specific. Strike a man and you struck a blow at God! Strike a Jew and you force Abraham to call to memory his Covenant that his enemies will be God's enemies. Did not God declare a "perpetual war" with Amalek for their attack from behind on the weak of Israel. Mordecai never forgot this and though he gives all honor to the Persian king he dishonors the seed of Agag though God has decreed that we subject ourselves to the governing ones.

And who will bear their fire when they have thumbed their nose at the living God? Shall the culprit cease to exist and thus the retribution cease? I think not!

[Prycejosh1987]

I believe we are already at the end. Churches are closing down. People are following apostasy. The church as a whole has alot of atheist pastors. Christian countries are ditching Jesus. I would say we at near the end. 

I personally would say we are at the middle of the end. Once we reach the end, of the end. Jesus will rapture His people.