**the End Is Near**

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I, like most folks here, live each day as if it is my last. That’s what Christ tells us to do. Tomorrow is promised to no one. So whether the last day is today, tomorrow, 50+ years or 50000 years it does not matter. IF you live in fear worrying about the end times, you will miss out on the love and joys of the here and now.

I thank God for today and if I get up tomorrow, I will thank Him for tomorrow as well. An old friend of mine used to always say, he got up each morning and looked in the obits and IF he did not see his name listed, he would have breakfast and go about his day 🙂

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Kyle, my friend, with all due respect (and you are talking to a die-hard Star Trek fan and sci-fi devotee), do you really think that colonizing different worlds, conquering space etc. is the SUMMIT of humanity?

Isn’t it possible that we should consider our summit of destiny to be conquering human souls for Christ? That our colonies should be of those dedicating themselves to Christ? That the way to eternity isn’t through lasers, phasers, and the time-space continuum but through Christ?

Otherwise, we’re just wasting time with our fantasies, however enjoyable they might be and however noble we think we are in picturing humanity as the “saviors” of the galaxy with our stellar (pardon the pun) accomplishments. Because if we are content to sigh for what “could have been”, we aren’t out there doing “what needs to be done NOW.”
 
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Mijoy2:
Imagine petting a lion or a leopard. How cool would that be huh?
No litter box in the house though :nope:
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:rotfl: Yes and for those that want animals in Heaven, I’m not cleaning it, unless off-course God asks me.😦 --------🙂
 
Yes and for those that want animals in Heaven, I’m not cleaning it, unless off-course God asks me. --------
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This is HEAVEN. . .they’ll probably be self-cleaning, like ovens. . .
 
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Mijoy2:
Imagine petting a lion or a leopard. How cool would that be huh?
No litter box in the house though :nope:
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Hey, lets not forget Daniel in the Lions den, nothing is impossible for God.
 
I am glad that everyone has an opinion on this prophecy but it really is too vague and there are too many possibilities. I am not saying I don’t have faith or anything, but as far as signs of the end, we have seen those since the time of Christ. Wars, pestilence, famine, all of that. Look at the plague in Europe during the Middle Ages. Think of the Crusades. It just seems too general. I am not saying that Christ’s second coming wouldn’t be awesome, but the minute we start saying “one more Pope”, the minute we lose sight of living. Christ could come right this second, or 1,000 years from now. We don’t know. And to put our hopes into a prophecy on which the Church doesnt validate and on which there is alot of controversy just seems, well, silly. But if you believe in it, thats ok I guess. As for me, I am not going to worry about when.

DU
 
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kyle8921:
O man this is it you guys… the end is here!!!

We didn’t do anything!! We never colonized a distant planet, or discovered other life, or did so much!!

This is finally when our faith pays off, the moment billions of people have been waiting for!

You guys act like the end of the world is no big deal…

I really hope it doesn’t end though, there’s SOO much we have yet to accomplish…
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The only thing that matters is when your own personal end comes and what state your soul is in when it does.

The only thing we have to accomplish is the serve God in this life, be His good and faithful servents, and be happy with him forever in the next.
 
your right… the end for you is probably near…

understand one thing… our time on this planet is short and by design… weather we will witness Christ coming in the clouds for all of man kind or the light of Christ coming out of the light after our heart attack is as i say by design…

but i think you waste valuable gray matter or needless worry in trying to guess the big secret…

Peace
 
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LoneRanger:
but i think you waste valuable gray matter or needless worry in trying to guess the big secret…

Peace
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I definately agree. However, if there is anything to prophecy of this type, one can’t help but be intrigued. I mean it’s not like guessing who might win the super bowl next year.

One of my worries on these type matters is; as time goes by and the world does not end, and prophecy after prophecy runs it’s course and is proven false, it has the potential of making one rethink all Catholic historical prophecy and apparitions. It seems it would lessen the validity of Fatima, Lourdes, the shroud, stigmatas…on and on. If Malachy was wrong or delusional, then couldn’t Sister Lucia, Saint Bernadette also have potentially been (while good intentioned) wrong or delusional?
 
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Mijoy2:
I definately agree. However, if there is anything to prophecy of this type, one can’t help but be intrigued. I mean it’s not like guessing who might win the super bowl next year.

One of my worries on these type matters is; as time goes by and the world does not end, and prophecy after prophecy runs it’s course and is proven false, it has the potential of making one rethink all Catholic historical prophecy and apparitions. It seems it would lessen the validity of Fatima, Lourdes, the shroud, stigmatas…on and on. If Malachy was wrong or delusional, then couldn’t Sister Lucia, Saint Bernadette also have potentially been (while good intentioned) wrong or delusional?
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Not wrong if the Church approved them, maybe the meaning of the message was more ambiguous. St. Malachi may have had true visions, but he was still a man and maybe misinterpreted the meaning.

DU
 
From what I’ve read, some think the prophecies may just be a forgery, so it isn’t really St. Malachy being called into question. I put no credence in these prophecies, anyway. But then, I don’t approve of any form of “chicken-littleism”. Do we know a tree by its fruits? Telling people that we are in the end times and that the world will end soon doesn’t necessarily draw people closer to God – it just frightens some people, and causes them to get their heads stuck in the future rather than trying to live a Christlike life in the present. Not very good fruits, in my opinion.
 
STIOFÁN:
After all, doesn’t the Bible say that the Lion will lay down with the lamb.
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The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won’t get much sleep. --Woody Allen

What God has planned is gonna happen, in spite of all our but-wait-a-minute’s.

What God has on hold is going to stay on hold, regardless of all our please-hurry’s.

Live. Worship. Pray. Evangelize.

Remember, God’s Word is a lamp for our feet, not a searchlight for a mile ahead of us.

DaveBj
 
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DaveBj:
The lion will lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won’t get much sleep. --Woody Allen

What God has planned is gonna happen, in spite of all our but-wait-a-minute’s.

What God has on hold is going to stay on hold, regardless of all our please-hurry’s.

Live. Worship. Pray. Evangelize.

Remember, God’s Word is a lamp for our feet, not a searchlight for a mile ahead of us.

DaveBj
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been there, done that…
 
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DaveBj:
Remember, God’s Word is a lamp for our feet, not a searchlight for a mile ahead of us.
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I love that one! 🙂

I also like the lion/lamb photo (is it real, or photo-edited?)

Jesus told us that nobody but the Father knows the time of His return. I’m not going to split hairs and argue whether Jesus meant “minutes”, “days”, “years”, “centuries”, or “millenia” when he said “time”. He said we don’t know the time, and that’s good enough for me. Jesus does not lie!
 
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LoneRanger:
been there, done that…
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Yep got the tee shirt 🙂 nice pic LoneRanger.

Well even in the Time of Jesus prophecies were mis-understood, only we have the benefit of living after the event.
When Jesus said that He would destroy the Temple and raise it up in 3 days, well the laughed at Him.
I think it took 40 years to build, so no surprise for laughing, but we know that Jesus meant His own body.
I think sometimes ( I know I’m rambling) 😉 but maybe if we seperate the physcial world from the Spiritual, then prophecy might be better understoood.
In other words, we know whats going on in the physical world, but not a whole lot about whats going on in the Spiritual world.

Ok I’ll go and have a lie down (phew)
 
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Mijoy2:
I definately agree. However, if there is anything to prophecy of this type, one can’t help but be intrigued. I mean it’s not like guessing who might win the super bowl next year.

One of my worries on these type matters is; as time goes by and the world does not end, and prophecy after prophecy runs it’s course and is proven false, it has the potential of making one rethink all Catholic historical prophecy and apparitions. It seems it would lessen the validity of Fatima, Lourdes, the shroud, stigmatas…on and on. If Malachy was wrong or delusional, then couldn’t Sister Lucia, Saint Bernadette also have potentially been (while good intentioned) wrong or delusional?
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I know what you mean! People I know say that since Greek and Roman mythology are no longer practicted, but once were, who’s to say that Christianity isn’t just a false religion too? I tell them that we had physical proof, through Jesus Christ, and then they give me the whole “well how do you know he existed? Have you seen him?”

But then I say, “have you ever seen George Washington?”

“No,” they say.

“How do you know he existed?” I ask.

“Well, textbooks,” they say.

And then I tell them that the Bible is a textbook…

Anyway, I’m getting off-topic now. I guess nobody can know for sure when the end will come, except through signs and stuff.

But hey, with all the violence in the Mid-East, how do we know Israel won’t be drawn into a massive conflict and confirm the Bible’s End Times. An army of 200 million is still a huge amount of troops for today’s military standards, though.
 
i was always told that not even God Himself knows when the end of the world will be. therefore all prediction does is keep it from ending.
 
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idyll:
i was always told that not even God Himself knows when the end of the world will be. therefore all prediction does is keep it from ending.
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I’m sure that God knows when the end of His world will be… if God doesn’t, than who does?
 
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idyll:
i was always told that not even God Himself knows when the end of the world will be. therefore all prediction does is keep it from ending.
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God knows all- past, present, and future. Don’t forget His self description to Moses “I am who AM”. That about sums it up. Only God knows the hour of our end. But, fret not; We are immortal!! we will live forever!! The end is really only the beginning!!
 
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