End Times

 

 

The period of time, leading up to God ending the world,
is commonly called, by Christians, ‘the End Times’:
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            Matt c24 – c25    Mark c13    Luke c21 v5-36    2 Thess c2: ,,,,,
            ctd … Satan (and his underling demons)
            will rule the whole world
            through a political-&-religious human leader
            who impresses by doing supernatural tricks.
            Then God the Son will return, for his people.
            Then God the Father will end the world. … ctd   my abbn

,         ,         ,         See five cells (starting Jesus explains)
,         ,         ,         in earlier section: WHY GOD’S WORDS HAVE POWER.

,         ,         ,         See last cell (starting Within Christianity)
,         ,         ,         of earlier section: GOOD RELIGION & BAD RELIGION,
,         ,         ,         and first two cells of GOD’S METHODS
,         ,         ,         immediately after it.

,         ,         ,         See earlier section: TRICKS & MIRACLES.,,,,,

            Rev c13 v16-18: ,,,,,
            If anyone wants to buy or sell anything
            they must have the number, or the name,
            of the ruler of the world
            on their right hand or forehead.
            The number of the ruler is the number of a man,
            it is six-hundred and sixty-six.   my abbreviation

,         ,         ,         Perhaps see: YouTube: – How to Read Revelation (Ben Witherington).

,         ,         ,         Would it need to be on the hand or forehead?
,         ,         ,         We’ve already got credit & debit cards
,         ,         ,         that could be controlled by governments.


            Matt c24 v6-8    Matt c24 v19-22: ,,,,,
            Man-made troubles
            and natural disasters.   my abbreviation

            Matt c24 v9: ,,,,,
            A time of persecution & killing of Christians.   my abbn

            Matt c24 v14: ,,,,,
            A time during which the gospel
            is finally spread worldwide.   my abbreviation

            Matt c24 v16-18    Luke c17 v30-33: ,,,,,
            A time to let go
            of the things of the world.   my abbreviation

 

 

All the above events will be: 

            Matt c24 v1-35:
            noticeable:
                 hence the end will be
                 expected [by believers]   my abbreviation 

            Matt c24 v36-51  &  Matt c25 v1-13    Luke c17 v20-30: ,,,,,
            and yet unnoticeable:
                 hence the end will be
                 a surprise [for unbelievers] .   my abbreviation

 

 

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My impression of biblical prophesies of the End Times
is that God won’t let us miserably kill ourselves
with slow global warming or a horrific nuclear war.
He’ll step in first, and end it himself, clinically, suddenly.

The Bible’s predictions, of God ending the Earth,
involve the Sun, Moon, & stars, all dimming or disappearing:

            Matt c24 v29            Perhaps see all of: Matt c24 – c25. 
            Mark c13 v24-25      Perhaps see all of: Mark c13. 
            Luke c21 v25-26          Perhaps see all of: Luke c21,,,
            Rev c6 v12                Perhaps see all of: Rev c6 v12-17. 

 

 

The details of the above verses are interesting:

            Matt c24 v29:
            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:   KJV

            Mark c13 v24-25:
            But in those days, after that tribulation,
            the sun shall be darkened,
            and the moon shall not give her light,
            And the stars of heaven shall fall,
            and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.   KJV

            Luke c21 v25-26  adds that there will be big waves in the sea.

 

 

            But the prophesy I find scientifically interesting is:

            Rev c6 v12:
            And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal,
            and, lo, there was a great earthquake;
            and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
            and the moon became as blood;   KJV

I suggest: “What if Sun and Moon were mistaken for each other?”:

            Sun & Moon are, from the Earth, visually the same size.
            An unusual arrangement, lasting only 100 million years,
            a short time cosmologically speaking,
            a period we are in the middle of.
,,        ,,        SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: The Solar Eclipse Coincidence.   


            Hence, if God allows/causes some event
            that causes much dust in the upper atmosphere:
                       We’d see the Sun.
                       But we’d think:
                             “That can’t be the Sun.
                               It must be the Moon
                               and the Sun’s gone out altogether.”

            Such an event would not, of itself, end all human life,
            not immediately.  Indeed, it may not harm anyone.

            But it would serve as a sign to everyone
            that God was about to end it.

 

 

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God knows the future.
Perhaps see earlier section:
TIME TRAVEL, WITHIN HEAVEN,
EXPLAINS JESUS’ PREDICTIONS. . . .


            So he knows exactly when he will end the world
            (i.e. when the End Times finish and Judgment Day starts).

            But he keeps that date & time
            a secret from us   Matt c24 v36,,,,,
            so that it’s also a secret from demons
            so as to prevent a, demon encouraged, human rampage
            from occurring.

            Matt c24 v22    Mark c13 v20,,,,,
            God will shorten the final ending.   my abbreviation  

 

 

            Demons don’t want us to destroy the world,
            not all of it.

            For we are their playgrounds,
            this is their environment too.
,         ,         See earlier section: WE ARE PLAYGROUNDS. . . .

,         ,         and
,         ,         second & third cell
,         ,         of earlier section: SATAN LIKES IT HERE. . . .


            However, if they knew God was about to destroy the world
            they’d get in first.

            Hence God keeps the date a secret,
            even from his Son.   Matt c24 v36,,,

 

 

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GOD’S MIRACLES IN THE END TIMES:
MY THEORY

 

 

Demons will empower ‘miracles’ in the End Times.

,,        ,,        See earlier section: TRICKS & MIRACLES. 

,,        ,,        Consider fifth cell
,,        ,,        (starting Most people are not used to seeing,)
,,        ,,        of earlier section: ACTS OF FAITH.

,,        ,,        Perhaps see that whole section.

But believers will do miracles too.

 

 

Scientific knowledge (e.g. medical knowledge):
            in the mind, next to the mind’s belief,
            given significance alongside the mind’s belief,
            so that it counteracts the mind’s belief,
constitutes:
            unbelief,
and unbelief hinders the miraculous.

      a): Unbelief/doubts
            are neurological-models, knowledge,
            in the mind.

      b): Big miracles,
            i.e. visually convincing miracles,
            happen in undeveloped nations.

      c): Believers in developed nations
            have unbelief/doubts (scientific, medical, etc)
            which hinder big miracles.

            Believers in undeveloped nations
            do not have unbelief/doubts (scientific, medical, etc)
            so big miracles go ahead.

 

 

However, in addition to c), I observe d):

      d)  In developed times & places:
                       Commanding, or praying for,
                       a fatal, though hidden, cancer, succeeds,
                       but, for say a mere missing finger tip, fails.

            But in undeveloped times & places: 
                        Where there are no:
                                   video cameras, phone cameras, scientific tests,
                                   medical records, passports, addresses, etc,
                        so that a miracle:
                                    cannot be verified, cannot be widely known,
                                   only personally seen,
                       commanding or praying for
                       both kinds of miracles succeed.

,         ,         ,         ,         Perhaps see: YouTube: – Heidi Baker,,,
                                                                     on Sid Roth's It's Supernatural! | Reckless Devotion. ,,,

,         ,         ,         ,         Also see twenty-second cell (starting Isabel Chapman.  Scottish.)
,         ,         ,         ,         of earlier section: ABOUT BIBLICAL TEACHER-HEALERS GENERALLY, , , ,

 

 

So I propose  e):
 
      e)   In developed times & places,
            out of love,
            God refuses to cause visually convincing miracles
            so as to not:
                       Prove the gospel.
                       Offend the wicked
                       as well as encourage the righteous.
                       Enliven the wicked
                       as well enliven as the righteous.
,         ,         ,         ,         Perhaps see earlier section:
,         ,         ,         ,         JESUS’ USE OF THE WORDS ‘RIGHTEOUS’ AND ‘WICKED’.,,,,,


                       Jesus’ & the Apostles’ visually convincing miracles
                       enlivened:
                                   not only the righteous
                                   but also the wicked.
                       Hence the wicked persecuted the righteous.

                       John c15 v20-25:
                       Remember the word that I said unto you,
                             The servant is not greater than his lord.
                             If they have persecuted me,
                             they will also persecute you;
                             if they have kept my saying,
                             they will keep yours also.
                       But all these things will they do unto you
                       for my name's sake,
                       because they know not him that sent me.
                             If I had not come and spoken unto them,
                             they had not had sin:
                             but now they have no cloke for their sin.
                       He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
                             If I had not done among them
                             the works which none other man did,
                             they had not had sin:
                             but now have they both seen and hated
                             both me and my Father.
                       But this cometh to pass,
                        that the word might be fulfilled
                       that is written in their law,
                             They hated me without a cause.   KJV

,         ,         ,         ,         Context: John c15 v16 – c16 v3.,,,,,

            However, when the End Times come:
,     ,     ,     ,     so that God is soon to reveal himself anyway,
,     ,     ,     ,     so that it’s no longer vital that he hides,
,         ,         ,         ,         See earlier sections:
,         ,         ,         ,         WHAT’S WRONG WITH A VISIBLE SOLUTION?,,,

            visually convincing miracles will be possible
            even in developed places.

 

 

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