[SteveMcKing]

Forty-Four End-of-the-World Prophecies

[Coyoteman]

What baloney. Armageddon tired of it.

[nmh]

He'll come when He's good and ready and NOT a moment before. This is GOD, you're talking about - not some push over.

[ConservativeMind]

Well, what was printed is basically how I understand it, and I'm a Christian.

That said, I think this newfound Israel religion some Christians have gotten is somewhat misplaced.

Christ can come back at any time. The Temple need not be rebuilt for the end of the world to occur.

No man can know that time. And believing God must listen to their interpretation of Scripture is pretty insulting of Him.

[Berlin_Freeper]

"mega-church pastors"

Are they trying to make us laugh?

Or are they just:

mega-idiot pastors

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The End may be near/But I have no fear/Because I'll have plenty of beer/For when the Saviour gets here.

[Frwy]

.....mega-church pastors recently met in Inglewood to polish strategies for... to fulfill the Great Commission: to make every person on Earth aware of Jesus' message.

Well they are wasting their time and money. Evangelizing the world will happen if God wills it to happen. If on the other hand God determines that next Tuesday at 12:01PM EST is the end of His patience with man, then that is the end and the next stages of prophesy begins. That has always been the problem with man. He believed it in the garden when the devil offered him the chance to be like God. It was a lie. Adam bought it and sin entered the world. Since then man has believed he can manipulate God into doing it man's way. It's not going to happen any other way but God's way. And to that I say Hallelujah.

[NormsRevenge]

like a thief in the night, no one knows when the deed may happen

but a lot of folks will get rich regardless , that much I know for sure

[Seruzawa]

Hallelujah Brother! You too can be saved from the Apocalypse. Learn how from Ezra and Buford Picket, the Bible Brothers, for only $19.95!

[epow]

I don't think any real Christian eschatologist believes that man can do anything to speed up God's prophetic timetable. The time of Jesus return to earth was set before the foundation of the world, and is known only to the Father. No one is going to speed it up by evangelizing the world.

The LAT would like for everyone to believe that any Christian who believes in the second advent of Jesus Christ is a whacked out nutjob who wants to see the world blown up and all it's unsaved people killed.

[Diver Dave]

Once heard it said,

You can be pre-trib
a mid-trib
a post-trib
Just don't be a Post-Toastie

I've got an Eternal Life policy... The premiums were paid with the Shed Blood of The Lamb.

[FreedomOfExpression]

some Jewish groups in Jerusalem hope to clear the path for their own messiah by rebuilding a temple on a site now occupied by one of Islam's holiest shrines.
Artisans have re-created priestly robes of white linen, gem-studded breastplates, <-snip-> along with two 6½-ton marble cornerstones for the building's foundation.

Now if they can only find out who the Levites are among them, they can do this properly. Even better, figure out that they missed out on the Messiah's first appearance about 1977 years ago.

[AndyTheBear]

Their endgame is to speed the promised arrival of a messiah.

Uhm, "a messiah"? That would be what the Jews would be waiting for. Christians have already identified Jesus as "the messiah" and we are waiting for his return.

[goldstategop]

We all know the world is going to end in 2012. Guess every one is getting ready for the end of things.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[BurbankKarl]

Have to sell more books!

[Quix]

And, . . . I recently heard a researcher specializing in such . . . reporting on C2CAM that the Hebrew group eager to build the next Temple has it all prefabbed and have decided to go ahead and build it off-site and await the availability of the site--to be made available by God--and to then rebuild it by fitting the puzzle pieces together again--without sound of hammer etc. as Solomon did.

Interesting that it's in this time frame!

Heard another researcher some months ago talking about there being more than one red heffer that qualified now and was either of age or approaching the right age.

Sooooo many pieces of the end times puzzle have already fit together since Israel becoming a nation again in a day as Biblically predicted--and as NEVER BEFORE IN HISTORY.

The old contention that all such things have happened in historic events is pure nonsense. Perhaps at most 3-4 or so prophetic TYPES of things of SOME dubious similarity to prophecies occurred in a roughly same time frame. But usually not even that many.

In our era, we have many hundreds--and many key ones never before occurring--such as Israel's return to the Covenant lands etc.

- - - - -

But the idea that Christians WANT the apocalypse is nonsense. Any genuine, thinking Christian doesn't want suffering--even suffering preceding Christ's return.

But we realize it is inevitable and in our era so we are resigned to it and look instead on the positive events to transpire at the same time and especially afterwards.

[NormsRevenge]

there are none so blind as those who will not see that which is right before their very nose.

as Jesus said to the blind man, here's mud in your eye.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

The problem is many Christians have a preconceived notion of what the Apocalypse is. What if it is nothing like what they expected it to be. Will they then say "its a trick of the devil". Many religious leaders said of Christ "he is of his father the devil", because his first coming didn't fit their doctrinal beliefs.

Luke 21
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

[napscoordinator]

Idiots! I would bet my paycheck that it will not happen in any of our times. I have a hunch that God is still in change and these lunatics should realize that.

[gunsofaugust]

Sounds like some fundamentalists or other group. For some reason I can't concern myself about it very much.