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

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

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

,         ,         ,         ,         And 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 counts up as
            six-hundred and sixty-six.   my abbreviation

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


            Matt c24 v6-8    Matt c24 v19-22*: ,,,,,
            A time of man-made troubles
            and natural disasters.   my abbreviation

            Mark: c13 v21-22: ,,,,,
            A time of fake Christs, fake prophets,
            & fake miracles.   my abbreviation

,         ,         ,         ,         Perhaps again see earlier section:
,         ,         ,         ,         TRICKS & MIRACLES.,,,,,

,         ,         ,         ,         Don’t assume that there won’t be real miracles as well.
 
,         ,         ,         ,         If there were going to be only fake miracles
,         ,         ,         ,         then Jesus would have said so.

,         ,         ,         ,         Indeed, it’s more logical that Jesus was implying
,         ,         ,         ,         that there’d be real miracles as well,
,         ,         ,         ,         that we’d be needing to judge between the two.

,         ,         ,         ,         Indeed, it’s when God will soon end everything anyway
,         ,         ,         ,         that he is more able do real miracles
,         ,         ,         ,         (I explain this in the next section).


            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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N.B. Between *Matt c24 v15 and v16,,, 
Jesus answer has a 2,000 years approx
jump backwards in time.

This is because:
 
            1) Jesus is answering two questions.  Matt c24 v1-2 and v3,,
                (a friend at church told me the above line.)

            2) Jesus didn’t know when he would return,
                  i.e. when the End Times would come.
                 Matt c24 v36    Mark c13 v32,,,

It must be that the Father chose not to tell Jesus
about the coming 2,000 years.

Hence Jesus, not having a discouraging temperament,
assumed his return would be in years or perhaps a decade.
 
            I.E. Not in his own, earthly, lifetime - obviously.
            But in the lifetime of his hearers, his disciples. 
            Matt c16 v28    Matt c24 v34    Mark c13 v30    Luke c21 v32,,

            Hence the early Church, too, thought he would return soon,
                 1 Thess c4 v17   written 48-52ad.
            But thought it less & less as the years rolled by,
                 2 Tim c4 v6-8   written 90-140ad.

This had the ‘unintended’ consequence
of turbo-charging the early Church’s
initial evangelism & growth
(that – plus the effect of persecution scattering the believers).

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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

Mark c13 v24-25

Luke c21 v25-26

Rev c6 v12

 

Perhaps see all of: Matt c24 – c25. , 

Perhaps see all of: Mark c13. , 

Perhaps see all of: Luke c21. ,

Perhaps see all of: Rev c6 v12-17. ,

The details of the first three texts are interesting:

            Matt c24 v29   ( and Mark c13 c24-25):
            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

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

But the last text I find interesting from a scientific point of view:

            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

The moon was, indeed, red as blood when Jesus died:
            A daytime lunar eclipse occurred
            YouTube Short: – The Exact Date of Jesus’ Crucifixion.,,,

            when the day went supernaturally dark.  Matt c27 v45.,,,
However, that only over Israel, or half the planet,
and only for hours.
 
What about the whole planet, for at least twenty-four hours,
in the End Times?
Can the prophesy apply then as well.
For the verses immediately after v12
are definitely End Times.  Rev c6 v12-17,,,

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

            Sun & Moon are, from the Earth, visually the same size.
            It’s an unusual arrangement
            that lasts only 100 million years
            (a short time cosmologically speaking)
            and a period we are in the middle of.
,,        ,,        SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: The Solar Eclipse Coincidence.   


            Hence, if God allows/causes some event
            that, say, 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 straightaway anyway.

            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

In the End Times:
            unbelievers will do ‘miracles’
            that are empowered by demons.

,,        ,,        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 there will also be:
            believers doing miracles
            that are empowered by God.

Regarding miracles that believers will do:

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,
            verifiable miracles,
            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’ve noticed 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 succeeds.

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

So I propose  e):
 
      e)   In developed times & places,
            out of love,
            God refuses to cause visually convincing miracles
            because proof of the gospel
            not only encourages, & so enlivens, the righteous,
            it also offends, & so enlivens, the wicked.

,         ,         Perhaps see earlier section:
,         ,         JESUS’ USE OF THE WORDS ‘RIGHTEOUS’ AND ‘WICKED’.,,,,,


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

            Proof of the gospel enlivens the wicked
            because the wicked hate to see the righteous
            (righteous who have nevertheless sinned)
            be Forgiven, let off by God, for free.
 
            It makes all their private efforts to be right with God
            wasted efforts.
            So it angers them.  Anger against their Constructor.
            Hence they become destructive.

            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.,,,,,

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

            visually convincing miracles will be possible
            even in developed places.

 

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