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Yep, it does seem like we're pretty close.

Israel magically reappears as a nation in our own time and is becoming surrounded by enemies, with not a friend in the world. Not long before the enemies attack.

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Check - there have been many peddling false gospels in Christ's name.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Check - worst wars of all time in the last 100 years.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Check - we've certainly had all of that in the past.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

Check - many martyrs in our own day. Is there any country where Christians are not hated by the Marxists or Hedonists or Islamists or Hindus or what have you?

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

Check - lots of hate going around.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Check - again, lots of people believing in false religion.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Check.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Check - pretty much been preached in all the world. Maybe there are a couple of tribes somewhere in the Amazon that have never heard of Jesus Christ.

Deception is a ‘sign’, so it would be a Christian requirement to know what the deception is. Rapture is NEVER mentioned by Christ.

Wars and rumors of wars... are NOT the sign to be ‘troubled’ by, so that would then by necessity point in the opposite direction, ‘peace, peace, peace,’ when there will be no peace. BUT what practicing Christian would be looked at favorably to be opposed to ‘peace’. The instead of fake is the one who shows up first bringing in a so called ‘peace’ and prosperity for any who will be deceived. And Christ Himself said ‘time’ would be shortened, and this time is likened to a woman in travail, as in labor. Labor does not take years more like days.