Are we nearing End Times?

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Does anybody else here believe the end times could be near?

I don’t focus on it too much because we can’t know, only ponder and wonder, and of course even if they are ‘near’, what is near to us and what is near to God, could differ significantly. The world ending ‘soon’ could be in a few years or in a few hundred years or more.

I know we’ve had evil in this world for a long time. There have been many evils committed and many evil regimes. The difference I see between now and then, is that sin is successfully being normalised. Those who speak out against sinful acts are being labelled as an intolerant minority of people with extreme beliefs.

The most striking difference between now (and the last few years) and before, is that, if you look at something like communism (a great evil), in most communist countries, most of the people were against the propaganda they were being fed. Publicly they might have been too afraid to say it, but privately, they knew it was nonsense. This was certainly the case in Poland for example. Now however, it seem seems like the majority are buying into the propaganda. Most people actually believe that abortion should be a right and gay marriage is okay. They don’t go with it out of fear, they have successfully being convinced it’s fine by the media and education system.
 
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Please do a search and you will find that there have been quite a few such posts on this topic over the last months. Have you read them?
 
I almost always do searches before creating a topic. As you may know however, topics on this forum close, so if one wants to give their two cents, they can’t do it in those, so have to start their own.

If you have already said all you want to say on the topic, feel free not to respond to this thread.

There are also many BLM threads about. Topics often get rehashed. That’s just how it is. As I said, if, like in other forums, topics didn’t get closed after a certain amount of days of inactivity, then people could just post a link to a topic that has already been created on the issue, but that isn’t the case.
 
Polak said:
Does anybody else here believe the end times could be near?
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NO!!

Everything that is happening today has happened over the past 2000 years. It just appears worse because of global communications.
People obsessing over end of times will simply make themselves miserable.
NOBODY except God knows when the end of times will be and he (Jesus) told us that and told us to always be ready. Why can’t we just do what Jesus told us. Always be ready then no need to obsess.
 
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I wasn’t aware gay marriage was legal and deemed socially acceptable 1000 years ago.
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There has been evil in many different forms over the centuries. Like I said, just do what Jesus told you to do!
 
Montrose said:
Like I said, just do what Jesus told you to do!
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What’s with the exclamation point? No need to yell.

Yes I said in my post there have been many different forms of evil over the centuries, but I don’t remember a time when obvious sin was so widely accepted by the masses as the norm.
 
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What’s with the exclamation point? No need to yell.

Yes I said in my post there have been many different forms of evil over the centuries, but I don’t remember a time when obvious sin was so widely accepted by the masses as the norm.
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Well that’s your opinion. When Jesus told us to always be ready I don’t understand why people simply won’t do that and instead they end up obsessing about end of days.
 
I’m not obsessing about end of days. Did you even read my original post? I said I don’t focus on this much. This is the only post I think I have created in this forum on the subject.
 
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I’m not obsessing about end of days. Did you even read my original post? I said I don’t focus on this much. This is the only post I think I have created in this forum on the subject.
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Fine with me. Why did you start a thread on this then?
 
To have a discussion on it. Starting a thread on a topic immediately equals obsession to you?

If I started a thread on this every few weeks or months, I might understand your concern.
 
Polak said:
To have a discussion on it. Starting a thread on a topic immediately equals obsession to you?

If I started a thread on this every few weeks or months, I might understand your concern.
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We have discussed this topic to death in the dozens and dozens of threads on it.
 
I have been having the same thoughts myself, specifically “should I stop trying to prepare for another coronavirus lockdown and instead try to prepare for my final judgement?” As the latter may be coming sooner than I think…

Even if it is not the end of times in the immediate future, I do worry about what this decaying culture will look like when my kids are my age.

I’m 30, when I was young, gay marriage was “never going to happen”, homosexuality wasn’t celebrated, men claiming to be women were few and far between and were offered mental help and not reality TV shows. Of course this has all been done before, as all these sins have always been around. But the cultural rot seems to be accelerating at a rapid pace, and the indifference towards it, sometimes support for it is disturbing.

Maybe we will “wake up” and try to reverse course when pedophilia is pushed as acceptable? I’m sure most people will read that and think “no, that one will surely never happen.” I would bet in my lifetime that will be pushed towards acceptance. The sexualization of our children is already setting the stage for it.
 
Like OP said, we are living in times that were not seen before. It’s not just the evil, that has always existed, but the fact that it is being not just welcome, but mandated and if you disagree, you are labeled many things, even as someone who is perverted.

For myself, I know that I’ve been telling a friend, for a few years now, that things can’t go on like this for much longer, that it feels like something is cooking and it’s almost done. But noone knows if this is the end times - we don’t have any reference, we don’t know how bad things can go - how bad things will go in the final days. But if we look at history, the world is in a similar state as it was in the years before the WW2. Economy is going down and there are tensions between countries.

Let me add, that a world war or something like this, would in fact mean, that the final days of many are at hand. We must always be ready to face the judge. God have mercy on us all.
 
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Montrose said:
We have discussed this topic to death in the dozens and dozens of threads on it.
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Ok that confirms it. You definitely haven’t read my opening post. Until you do, there’s no point me responding to points I have already addressed.

@ZemD

You know ironically, while being appalled at what I see going on around me, at the same time I feel a strange kind of peace, because it’s what has been prophesied in the Bible. The key is that we don’t give in to and allow ourselves to be brainwashed by this evil being pushed on us.
 
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know ironically, while being appalled at what I see going on around me, at the same time I feel a strange kind of peace, because it’s what has been prophesied in the Bible. The key is that we don’t give in to and allow ourselves to be brainwashed by this evil being pushed on us.
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I am happy you opened this topic. The sense of peace you are mentioning is what I experience as well, sometimes. Even though I suffer from scrupulosity. I often can’t believe how people are brainwashed in following the liberal agenda.
It’s good to meditate for a few minutes every morning, the meaning of friendship on earth vs. the meaning of friendship with God, beucase I have a feeling that we will be labedel everything bad in the near future if we are going to stand on the side of the Truth. It may get much worse before it gets better.
 
I am 30 as well (1990). As kids, when we were asked to draw how the future will look like we would draw flying cars and such. The whole outlook was bright and future was something better, something to look forward to. That was back then. Who would have known that in many ways those were the good days compared to today.

There is already a push - very small - just like with homosexuality in the begining, to make pedophilia acceptable.

I fear that in the next 30 years, the world may be so corrupt, that it may be considered a huge grace for someone of my generation to die relatively young - before reaching that period. I know this sounds harsh, especially for those who are parents. That may not apply to them. For the last few years I stayed away from media, movies etc. But last month I felt like I want to watch something. I heard netflix was for that… I checked it out, and I was shocked, because I was not used of the covers of the ‘family-friendly’ movies to be so explicit.

Just my thoughts.
 
@TwoNames I can’t enjoy popular media anymore either.

I’m very saddened by the state of our culture today, but it is reassuring I am not the only one in my age group who sees this rot for what it is. My husband and I are very much “the odd man out” among most everyone we know in our age group in real life.
 
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Polak said:
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I’m more interested in why people constantly want to talk about the “end times” rather than how we can be better Christians and closer to God today.

We’ve had no less than a half-dozen “End Times” threads started in the last 2 weeks already. Although several of them were deleted by the moderator because the person starting them violated CAF policy.

As was said by numerous folks on those other threads, yes, we’re living in the End Times because they’ve been going on since the Ascension of Christ, almost 2000 years ago. This is straight from Scripture.

As for when the world will actually end, no one knows except God and I don’t sit around trying to guess.
 
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There is already a push - very small - just like with homosexuality in the begining, to make pedophilia acceptable.
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This same push was around for decades before you were born, probably in a bigger way. Look up NAMBLA and the Kentler Project.
Don’t assume some evil you see is new to “your generation” because 99 percent of the time it’s not. It’s the same old evil come back.
 
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