Does anyone else believe we are living in the end times?

Question

Does anyone else believe we are living in the end times?

Answer 1

That depends. If you mean the end of religion then yes, I do believe humanity will do away with silly superstitions soon.

Answer 2

Yeah, there are a lot of crazy people who believe that.

Answer 3

Some people have thought so in every generation since the apostles.  Paul certainly thought so.  The question is how long do the end times last?

Answer 4

Yes i do

Answer 5

If you mean end times in the sense that in 5 million years, then of course. The sun will eventually devour earth.

Answer 6

The “pangs of distress” began in 1914 with total warfare, an all-out war for global domination, the like of which had never occurred before in history. In explaining further what the “pangs of distress” include, Jesus said there would be “on the earth anguish of nations, not knowing the way out because of the roaring of the sea and its agitation, while men become faint out of fear and expectation of the things coming upon the inhabited earth.” Today any observing person can perceive the “pangs of distress” upon all the nations of the earth. Yet the masses of people fail to find any significance in it. Oh, they are quick to say that times are worse than ever before. But when they are told of Jesus’ prophecy concerning the “time of the end” they scoff and ridicule. Strange? No, because the ridiculers of the great sign of the times were to be so numerous in the “time of the end” or “last days” that they in themselves would constitute part of the sign: “In the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires and saying: ‘Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep in death, all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.’”—Luke 21:25, 26; 2 Pet. 3:3, 4, NW.

Why do the scoffers scoff? Because “their own desires” are selfish. They want to hang on to this present system of things for their own selfish gain. So they willingly refuse to see the “pangs of distress” foretold by Jesus. They claim that “all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning” because ‘we have always had wars, famines and earthquakes.’ The scoffers fail to realize that the sign Jesus gave is not comprised of an isolated earthquake here or a war there. But rather all the happenings must occur concurrently upon one generation in intensified doses. Now if we carefully analyze the “pangs of distress” that Jesus foretold at Matthew 24 and Luke 21, can we honestly say that since 1914 “all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning”? No!

World events from 1914 onward confirm that the pangs of distress based on Bible chronology is correct.The scene of this world has  really changed so much since then. Who is the villain behind the worsening world conditions? Revelation 12:7-9 unmasks the culprit: “War broke out in heaven:  Michael [Jesus Christ] and his angels battled with the dragon [Satan the Devil], and the dragon and its angels battled but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, . . . who is misleading the entire inhabited earth.” So Satan the Devil is the guilty troublemaker, and his ouster from heaven in 1914 has meant “woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time.”—Revelation 12:10, 12.

Such terms as “a turning point in modern history,” an “age of violence,” “an age of war and revolution” and “a volcanic epoch,” used by leading authorities, ought to jar scoffers into some sensible thinking! For, of a certainty, things are not continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning. The “time of the end” has come. The sign of the “last days” is visible evidence. Never before in history, prior to 1914, have all these things occurred at once upon one generation:

Sign                                   Scripture Proof

1. World wars                         Matt. 24:7

2. Widespread food shortages          Matt. 24:7

3. Unusual number of earthquakes      Matt. 24:7

4. Sore pestilence and disease        Luke 21:11

5. Persecution of Christians          Luke 21:12-15

6. Many forsaking Christianity        Matt. 24:12, 13

7. Formation of the League of

    Nations and United Nations         Rev. 13:14, 15; 17:11

8. Nations perplexed                  Luke 21:25

9. Increased lawlessness              Matt. 24:12

10. Sleepy condition of the world

    despite the sign                   1 Thess. 5:2, 6

11. Moral breakdown in public and

    private life                       2 Tim. 3:1-4

12. Widespread juvenile delinquency    2 Tim. 3:2

13. People overly engaging in

    everyday affairs of life           Matt. 24:37-39

14. World-wide preaching of the

    established kingdom as good news.  Matt. 24:14

Before the “time of the end” closes the people must be warned. So Jesus foretold: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for the purpose of a witness to all the nations, and then the accomplished end will come.” To people who are heartsick because of this present wicked world, the news of God’s established kingdom and the “time of the end” is indeed good. Jehovah’s witnesses have been diligent to bring this good news to peoples of all the earth. When the preaching work is finished the “accomplished end” comes. This does not mean that when the “time of the end” closes the mass of ma

Answer 7

No. If you wish to claim that we are, please provide clear and objective evidence for this factless assertion.

Note, as well, that such "predictions" have been made in pretty much every year, and so far, their record is 100% wrong.

It is not rational to believe in anything with such a perfect record of error and wrongness.  

Answer 8

when i logged onto yaho news to check the headlines, they included stories of another earthquake in china, massive flooding in india, another hurricane heading toward new orleans, and more tension building up between russia and the west over the georgia conflict ( those of us who read the bible know that russia is to play a major role in the war of armegeddon).  as i look at the posts here on r&s, the majority of the posts are from atheistic scoffers, which the bible warns us there will be a lot of in the end times. homosexuality is commonplace, thousands of abortions take place evry day, a book called "the GOD delusion" has made the times best seller list(this book says that teaching religion to your children amounts to child abuse and that religious people should be quarantined), iran is trying to build nukes while isreal is planning an attack on iran, etc... yes! we are living in the end times !

Answer 9

we got a couple billion years till the end of earth

Answer 10

I really think we are in living the book of Revelation right now. I see everything being set up for the Tribulation. The Bible told us it would be this way.  I think we should all be praying a lot right now that we will be found worthy to escape what is about to happen and be able to go in the rapture. "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass [see Matthew 24], and to stand before the Son of man." (Luke 21:36 KJV)  

Because this is what will happen during the Tribulation---Matthew 24:9 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."

Not to say we should live in fear but being in the presence of Jesus Christ right now sounds wonderful.

"But none of the wicked shall understand [that the End of the Age is upon them]." [Daniel 12:10b]

Answer 11

Yes, I give it 50 years MAX

Answer 12

NO.

People have said that EVERY SINGLE generation.

There was hysteria about the year 1000 (CE) because people thought the 1000 year of satan on earth would be over and Christ would return (Revelation).

EDIT: To Augustine - Yawn. There have always been natural disasters/civil unrest and always will. In the past 100 years, communications have advanced so much, you hear about these disasters/unrest EVERY DAY.