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@hippyjoe1955 My grandma 40 years ago said "the signs are not all here, but when I am dead if you see these signs all over the world then you know Jesus will come before you die." The are here now, [b]all of them.[/b] The only thing we are waiting for is the gospel to go to all the world. It is on it's way. We know he will come in our lifetime. I am so excited about Jesus making all things sparkling new!

@Carazaa The signs were there as they interpreted them. That is why I refuse to be swept away into end times prophecy etc. I don't need to know the times or the seasons. I need only to know Jesus and Him crucified. My job is not to predict the future. My job is to bring people to a knowledge of the saving Grace of Jesus Christ.

@hippyjoe1955 Jesus said [b][c=BF0000]"these are those who love me, those who keep my commands"[/c][/b]

@Carazaa Yes and His great commission was "Go therefor into all the world making disciples of all nations. He didn't spend a lot of time telling us when the end was to happen. When asked when the end would be He said the decision has not been made yet.

@hippyjoe1955 So there were people flying back and forth in 1880? There were smartphones in 1880? There was knowledge increasing, cold hearts and crime [b]Everywhere, [/b]gospel going out by air to every city? NO Jesus said there will be great deception "what seems wrong seems right", cold hearts, iniquity abounding, and knowledge increasing, going back and forth, birth-pangs increasing, An angel will fly in midair proclaiming the gospel, etc. That has not happened before now!

@Carazaa Reading my Bible and can't find any reference to smart phones. Maybe you have a better translation?

@hippyjoe1955
1 Deception everywhere
2.False christs everywhere
3 Iniquity everywhere/Cold hearts
4. Gospel going out to all the world
5. The End

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and [b]what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?[/b]

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, [b][c=BF0000]Take heed that no man deceive you.
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5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7 [b][c=BF0000]For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
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8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

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.

10 And[b][c=BF0000] then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.[/c][/b]

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

12 And because[b][c=BF0000] iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
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13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14 And[b][c=BF0000] this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.[/c][/b]

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall [b][c=BF0000]arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
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25 Behold, I have told you before.

26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29 [b][c=BF0000]Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.[/c][/b]

35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

48 But and if that [b][c=BF0000]evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;[/c][/b]

49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

@Carazaa So you think deception is something new?

@hippyjoe1955 There might have been deception in some countries but not in mine. Where I grew up in Sweden, there was peace and no corruption and very little crime, and my grandma said that everyone observed the sabbath and everyone was peaceful and the government took care of everyone and sheltered the Jews from persecution and everyone was happy. Now not so!

@Carazaa And you can prove that how? In my country our first prime minister was an alcoholic. His water glass he kept on his desk in the house of commons was filled with gin. The premier of a province in Canada was a pedophile. There is nothing new under the sun. The sexual perversions we witness now were common in the times when the New Testament was being written. Paul had to correct the Christians in Corinth because of their liceniousness.

@hippyjoe1955 That was not the case[b] everywhere.[/b] Jesus was talking about [b]tribulation everywhere! [/b]and the [b]last thing is the gospel going out to everywhere![/b]

[b]REVELATION 14[/b] (this is where we are now)

[b]5And no lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless. 6Then I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth— to every nation and tribe and tongue and people. 7And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters.”…[/b]

@Carazaa Yeah it was. Nothing is new under the sun. Evil exited and ruled in the hearts of men since Adam and Eve ate the fruit. Will there be a return of Jesus? ABSOLUTELY!!!! Will we know the day or the hour? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! That is why we must be faithful and be found doing our task when He unexpectedly returns. My task is bringing people to the salvation found only in Jesus Christ and rebuking those who are blocking the way. My task is not about speculation. I don't know the time nor day. I refuse to go there because it is fruitless for me to go there. What I spend my time on is reaching out to muslims like Acmed and Hannan, or reaching out to alcoholics like Doug and Oscar and Dale and helping women like Donna get back on her feet having had an abortion that destroyed her life. That is what I care about not whether Jesus is coming 'soon'. A thousand years are but a day to the Lord. My short life on earth is but a twinkling in His eye.

@hippyjoe1955 I believe you are deceived!

@Carazaa Woe to those who judge another One's servant.

@Carazaa, you are right, that His return certainly appears imminent. But Hippy Joe is also right, in that history has certainly given us similar conditions in the past.

Perhaps what was going on in the 1970s were analogous to Braxton-Hicks contractions.

"He is there! No, He is over [i]there[/i]!" I fondly remember the massive posters in some churches, covering entire walls, outlining in the most minute detail the timeline, the clock of which would begin ticking any second.

Not every thing was ready. In fact, we all saw The Wall fall! There was [b][i]peace[/i][/b]! My fellow Sailors breathed a collective sigh of relief.

But it all seems quite different this time. America is no longer the sole superpower. Indeed, one can legitimately question whether the USA can even claim that moniker.

At the same time Joe's points are supported by Peter, because "all things continue as they always have since the creation."

However, Peter also supports your thoughts and conclusions too, Carazza. Because while things are same ol' same ol' it sure seems to be on steroids! It was the scoffers who insisted that nothing of import was really going on.

His return [c=BF0000][b][i]is[/i][/b][/c] imminent. But we're commanded to make disciples until He takes us up. And while we proclaim His Gospel, we're to look up, and keep our ear cocked, listening for that trumpet.

@billybcgn25 Remember the movie The Late Great Planet Earth? The end was to have happened within days of the release of that movie. 40 odd years later..... The point of my posts is that as a Christian the last thing I need to concern myself with is the end of the world. If it ends tomorrow I know where I am going. If it doesn't happen for another thousand years I still know where I am going. Great emotional triumphalism and hand wringing is not the state we Christians should practice. Our end is known.

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I think you are unaware of the signs Jesus told us in the last generation!

🕊️ Revelation 14 -An angel will fly mid air and proclaim the gospel to every nation, and then the judgment, Jesus said. We are there now. There were no cell phones in 1970! Most people did not have one. I started listening to Family Radio 1982 that proclaimed the Gospel to part of the world in 1982, not the entire world. Billy graham had televised preaching to part of the world ( I was helping) but not the entire world.

💪 Jesus said that the first sign will be great deception in the last generation, wrong would seem right. Every single government has difficulty and inside disagreements right now. There was very little division compare to now in many countries, especially in my country in Scandinavia.

🛸 Jesus said there would be a falling away from faith in the last generation. Many religions and cults have deceived many the last 100 years.

🛬 Jesus said there would be people going back and forth in the last generation. It took a month to go to USA from Europe by boat before 1900. Horses has been the mode of transportation for 6000 years until 100 years ago. Now people are flying back and forth across the globe in a day.

😡 Iniquity will abound and people will have cold hearts in the last generation. It has drastically increased after 2020, check it out.

📈 Great earthquakes will increase the last generation

🪲 pestilences would increase

💨 Flooding and sea roaring

🦭 Sea life will be dying

🦬 There will be more terrors, and animal attacks

🥑 Famines and poverty will increase.

😏 mocking the Bible will increase

☀️Sun will be hot and burning people

🔥 fires will be burning trees and grass

🌜✨ the moon and stars will give signs in heaven

🚗Knowledge will increase. The last 6000 years knowledge would double after a year or more, now knowledge doubles every few minutes