End Times
The period of time, leading up to God ending the world, is commonly called, by Christians, ‘the End Times’: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 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 abbreviation Matt c24 v14: ,,,,, A time when the gospel is finally communicated everywhere. my abbreviation ,, ,, So that all who will ever become Christians will become Christians. Matt c24 v16-18* Luke c17 v30-33: ,,,,, Then a time to let go of the things of the world. my abbreviation ,, ,, So that God will be able to take all Christians to Heaven. 1 Cor c15 v35-58 & 1 Thess c4 – c5,,,,, Then the rapture, when God will rapidly: Bring all dead believers to life but with new, incorruptible, bodies. Then lift them to Heaven, lifting all living believers along with them. my abbn ,, ,, ,, I reckon Paul’s epistles tell you his heart & mind, a renewed mind, ,, ,, ,, and therefore tell you all you need to know, including the future. ,, ,, ,, A pretty obvious future really when you think about it.
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, seem to involve the Sun, Moon, and 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 is the one 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’s only over Israel, and only for three hours, so it wasn’t even over the whole planet. 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. An unusual arrangement that lasts 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, 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 the whole world, 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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