You are accurate in discerning it. Not only are we in the “end times”, but the end of time itself. This is the end of linear time. The final events will unfold with rapid succession until the time when YASHUA HA’ MASHIACH, returns.
The door of Grace is still open, yet closing quickly. Soon the Earth will be rattled like a fig tree the scripture says.
While we are in the times you describe as “end times,” like a pregnancy ending, I prefer to view it as a birth of “New Times.”
Remember the parable of the tares in the wheat, where the weeds were planted while the people were asleep. We are now coming to the great awakening. It really is much more simple than people make it. Christ is already here and through our awakening, He will become readily visible, just as when Jesus let go during His dark-night-of-the-soul and realized that He and His Father were one! Remember, My Father exists in Me and I in My Father. And if you exist in Me, My Father that is in Me will also be in you. That is what communion is all about.
The problem is, people try to understand the journey to Christ as a linear one, just as one would go from one geographic location to another. It is not. It is an expansion of consciousness beyond the physical body to a greater awareness. Use the model of Russian nesting dolls where we are the small doll in the middle and God is the outer, largest doll. We all exist within the larger doll. Jesus who has grown to be much greater than the limits of the flesh where He was born as our Savior, is one of the larger dolls. We cannot get to God except by expanding through Jesus.
This is the reason that Matthew 24 where Jesus warns of false prophets goes on to say that “as the lightning in the east is seen in the west, so will the Messiah.” I jokingly say, “Wow, the Messiah must be one heck of a big dude!” In fact, He is, just not in physical form as we are. One of the attribute of being “raised up” is the ability to perceive higher levels of consciousness, just as Jesus knew the thoughts of everyone around Him.
Just as wave energy in the electromagnetic spectrum takes on the attributes of particles as it shifts into the gamma frequencies, human consciousness does the same thing. Thoughts become real physical tangible objects at that level. But human consciousness can only reach those levels when it has been cleansed of the heaviness of sin. Sin to the human soul is like a heavy wet blanket on the spin cycle of a washer, it knocks it out of balance, makes it wobble, and slows down its operational frequency. Thus an individual’s free will is limited to the attributes at that operational frequency in order that they not physically manifest thoughts that are harmful to themselves and others.
For some reason, unknown to me and in spite of me, after I physically died and returned in 1988 I began to be physically aware of other people’s thoughts as real physical tangible objects. The Bible is 100% accurate and so is science. However, there is a level of science that people do not understand relating to the operational frequencies of consciousness. It is all really simple. The reason Einstein and Bohr had their twenty year disagreement is that they did not understand this. Time is not just a function of the speed of light, it is a function of the relationship of the operational frequency of consciousness over the speed of light. To the extent the soul is cleansed and the frequency increased, consciousness reaches and surpasses the speed of light giving one the gift of prophesy. This is the reason that Peter quotes the Prophet Joel in Acts 2 concerning your son’s and daughter’s abilities. In these times, the presence of the Holy Spirit is much greater (right now).. And just as the weeds will be burned, a prayeful blessing to an evil person is like placing hot coals upon their heads, and for the same reason that Daniel was not burned by the furnace, we are now experiencing ‘global warming.” You could say it is man made in that the warming is a natural attribute of the Divine transmuting our sin.
The time/space continuum collapses at these frequencies of consciousness. All wisdom and knowledge is available equally for everyone at these levels in a sort of Divine library.
One other attribute I noticed is that when a higher level of consciousness comes to a lower level, it gives off light. This is the reason that scriptures refer to “God as Light.” It is also the reason I see the Holy Spirit as liquid light when it is upon someone. Ironically, it is the same pattern that Neils Bohr, the dutch atomic physicist observed, that an electron going from an outer orbital to an inner orbital gives off a photon (light). Often I will see this around ministers when they are preaching. I humorously ask them afterwards if they are learning by listening to the words that are coming out of their mouth.
What I have shared is the tip of the proverbial iceberg. It’s getting interesting. Hang on to your hat and enjoy the ride!