Recently read a stat that 35% of Americans believe the Second Coming will happen in their lifetime.
Do you think it will happen?
Do you think it will happen?
Do you believe the Second Coming will happen in your lifetime?
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Last: 3 yr ago by bmks270
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I hope so.
It is better to light a flamethrower than to curse the darkness- Sir Terence Pratchett
“ III stooges si viveret et nos omnes ad quos etiam probabile est mittent custard pies”
“ III stooges si viveret et nos omnes ad quos etiam probabile est mittent custard pies”
I'm ready
Acts 1:12. The distance from Jerusalem, location of first Church, is 2000 cubits, a "Sabbath Day's Journey; 2000 cubits distance from Jerusalem back to Mt Olivet. I believe this 2000 cubits is symbolic for the length of the grace age, 2000 years. Jesus was born in the year 0 and was 33 1/2 years old at His death. 2000 years (cubits) after 33 1/2 AD will be 2033, the year Christ will touch down as predicted in Acts 1:12 on Mt Olivet, 2000 years after the first church was planted in Jerusalem.
Notice also in Joshua 3, the people were told to stay 2000 cubits (years) behind the Ark. This would signify the Ark, a type of Christ, crossing Jordan (symbolic of death) 2000 years before the people (the church) signifying the rapture at the end of the tribulation.
Get ready folks. Jesus coming back in 2033, give or take 6 years due to uncertainty of the year of his birth.
Notice also in Joshua 3, the people were told to stay 2000 cubits (years) behind the Ark. This would signify the Ark, a type of Christ, crossing Jordan (symbolic of death) 2000 years before the people (the church) signifying the rapture at the end of the tribulation.
Get ready folks. Jesus coming back in 2033, give or take 6 years due to uncertainty of the year of his birth.
Eye has not seen, ear has not heard.Bryanisbest said:
Acts 1:12. The distance from Jerusalem, location of first Church, is 2000 cubits, a "Sabbath Day's Journey; 2000 cubits distance from Jerusalem back to Mt Olivet. I believe this 2000 cubits is symbolic for the length of the grace age, 2000 years. Jesus was born in the year 0 and was 33 1/2 years old at His death. 2000 years (cubits) after 33 1/2 AD will be 2033, the year Christ will touch down as predicted in Acts 1:12 on Mt Olivet, 2000 years after the first church was planted in Jerusalem.
Notice also in Joshua 3, the people were told to stay 2000 cubits (years) behind the Ark. This would signify the Ark, a type of Christ, crossing Jordan (symbolic of death) 2000 years before the people (the church) signifying the rapture at the end of the tribulation.
Get ready folks. Jesus coming back in 2033, give or take 6 years due to uncertainty of the year of his birth.
We need to focus on creating a kingdom of God on earth, loving one another, and cultivating our relationship with Christ. Jesus himself told us that nobody knows when he will return, and many who think they are saved will not be based on their deeds instead of their words.
Every previous eschatological attempt to set a date has failed.Bryanisbest said:
Acts 1:12. The distance from Jerusalem, location of first Church, is 2000 cubits, a "Sabbath Day's Journey; 2000 cubits distance from Jerusalem back to Mt Olivet. I believe this 2000 cubits is symbolic for the length of the grace age, 2000 years. Jesus was born in the year 0 and was 33 1/2 years old at His death. 2000 years (cubits) after 33 1/2 AD will be 2033, the year Christ will touch down as predicted in Acts 1:12 on Mt Olivet, 2000 years after the first church was planted in Jerusalem.
Notice also in Joshua 3, the people were told to stay 2000 cubits (years) behind the Ark. This would signify the Ark, a type of Christ, crossing Jordan (symbolic of death) 2000 years before the people (the church) signifying the rapture at the end of the tribulation.
Get ready folks. Jesus coming back in 2033, give or take 6 years due to uncertainty of the year of his birth.
Why do cubits = years? Why not centuries? Millenia? Generations?
Efforts to predict this are silly, at best.
Efforts to predict this are silly, at best.
If you believe in life after death, then 100% yes. There are two resurrections so everyone will be alive for the second coming. The real question is whether we will stay alive.
2000 years is not a bad guess. The promise to Abraham and its fulfillment spanned about 2000 years. Though I believe there will be a large awakening of the Jews first based on Rom. 11.
I kind of think so but I'm currently 47 but I'm pretty sure if it 's not in my generation it will be in my kid's lifetime. There's too much setup and worldwide chaos that is totally on a larger widespread scale than it ever has been for a tipping point to not happen in the next 50 years or so. That's for people who say "signs like that have always been around".
BUT what I tell everyone is no man knows when Jesus will come back or the world will end but the day you die, THAT is the end of the world for you regardless so make sure you are prepared by having a relationship with Christ because none of us are promised tomorrow no matter the reason.
I'm ready though and each day I get more and more weary of what all I see and am ready to experience God's perfection!
BUT what I tell everyone is no man knows when Jesus will come back or the world will end but the day you die, THAT is the end of the world for you regardless so make sure you are prepared by having a relationship with Christ because none of us are promised tomorrow no matter the reason.
I'm ready though and each day I get more and more weary of what all I see and am ready to experience God's perfection!
Ephesians 2:8-9
It is by grace we are saved, not by works lest any man should boast.
It is not our works, because many will be done from a fleshly pride embedded in social justice ideology. God will divide the intent behind those deeds and judge us by His standards, not human "good works" standards.
It is by grace we are saved, not by works lest any man should boast.
It is not our works, because many will be done from a fleshly pride embedded in social justice ideology. God will divide the intent behind those deeds and judge us by His standards, not human "good works" standards.
It is better to light a flamethrower than to curse the darkness- Sir Terence Pratchett
“ III stooges si viveret et nos omnes ad quos etiam probabile est mittent custard pies”
“ III stooges si viveret et nos omnes ad quos etiam probabile est mittent custard pies”
I would prefer sooner than later.
I don't think Jesus is coming back in my lifetime, but maybe I should. It seems to be one of the oldest Christian traditions, going strong for nearly 2000 years. I feel left out
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And every future eschatological attempt to set a date will continue to fail as well.Buzzy said:Every previous eschatological attempt to set a date has failed.Bryanisbest said:
Acts 1:12. The distance from Jerusalem, location of first Church, is 2000 cubits, a "Sabbath Day's Journey; 2000 cubits distance from Jerusalem back to Mt Olivet. I believe this 2000 cubits is symbolic for the length of the grace age, 2000 years. Jesus was born in the year 0 and was 33 1/2 years old at His death. 2000 years (cubits) after 33 1/2 AD will be 2033, the year Christ will touch down as predicted in Acts 1:12 on Mt Olivet, 2000 years after the first church was planted in Jerusalem.
Notice also in Joshua 3, the people were told to stay 2000 cubits (years) behind the Ark. This would signify the Ark, a type of Christ, crossing Jordan (symbolic of death) 2000 years before the people (the church) signifying the rapture at the end of the tribulation.
Get ready folks. Jesus coming back in 2033, give or take 6 years due to uncertainty of the year of his birth.
Anyone, ANYONE that thinks they know the date is wrong. It will come like a thief in the night.
Tamu_mgm said:
Anyone, ANYONE that thinks they know
Ahh, as the wise philosopher and theologian Earl Simmons once said, "If you think you know then I don't think you know."
I also think that as much as we THINK we know about the 2nd coming, I imagine God will pull it all off in a way that not even the top Christian scholars could have imagined.
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I'm ready though and each day I get more and more weary of what all I see and am ready to experience God's perfection!
This is a fairly ego driven thought process. People throughout the world and time have faced situations so much more daunting than anything we're facing in this country today.
Well sure I haven't experienced any type of suffering that could be compared to the really bad periods of time or even bad times currently in other people's lives but I still long to see God's perfection and my loved ones in Heaven sooner rather than later. But I understand your point.
Apologies if I misinterpreted your original post. I read it as "Things are bad today..." and you may have not meant it that way. I should have asked more questions instead of coming across the way I did. Again, apologies.
That's ok! It's good discussion!
NO
Yes, if I live 10 more years
PRETERISM
So, nope.
So, nope.
No one knows, but you can tell the signs of the times. The world is getting worse, and worse by the day. People are traveling to and fro, knowledge is being heaped up. But no one knows the time, no the date. If you want to be a Millerite, go ahead. But they were a disappointed/deceived group of folks.
Acts 2:38
The idea that things are getting worse and worse when the average person on the planet is better fed and safer than ever before in history is hilarious.
schmendeler said:
The idea that things are getting worse and worse when the average person on the planet is better fed and safer than ever before in history is hilarious.
The sinfulness and greed, humanistic "morality", and falling away from God are far more indicative than what you have in your belly. More and more, evil is being called good, and what is good is being called evil. It's speeding up.
Acts 2:38
"things are worse, but in totally subjective ways that are highly specific to my sect of one of hundreds of religions on Earth!"
schmendeler said:
"things are worse, but in totally subjective ways that are highly specific to my sect of one of hundreds of religions on Earth!"
Do you know anything of Christianity? Judaism? Any other religion on this earth? Do you know any of the historicity of the prophecies in the Bible? Are you one of those who think there is no God at all? Do you think we all came from nothing? Life sprang from dead rock? I bet you're one of those guys, huh?
Acts 2:38
Zero chance. There is no second coming. All fiction.
Pierow said:schmendeler said:
The idea that things are getting worse and worse when the average person on the planet is better fed and safer than ever before in history is hilarious.
The sinfulness and greed, humanistic "morality", and falling away from God are far more indicative than what you have in your belly. More and more, evil is being called good, and what is good is being called evil. It's speeding up.
Sinfulness, greediness and so on seem to be a core part of humanity (and I don't know what you mean by humanisitic morality). Why do you think it is worse now than before?
dargscisyhp said:Pierow said:schmendeler said:
The idea that things are getting worse and worse when the average person on the planet is better fed and safer than ever before in history is hilarious.
The sinfulness and greed, humanistic "morality", and falling away from God are far more indicative than what you have in your belly. More and more, evil is being called good, and what is good is being called evil. It's speeding up.
Sinfulness, greediness and so on seem to be a core part of humanity (and I don't know what you mean by humanisitic morality). Why do you think it is worse now than before?
Really? For thousands of years the perversity of homosexuality, rampant adultery, ubiquitous pornography, would never have been tolerated. Don't get me wrong, the potential was always there, and it did exist on the periphery throughout history. But now, it's being celebrated, encouraged, legalized. I don't blame the world for doing what it does, that's the churches fault. But it is happening everywhere. The church is not doing doing its job.
30 years ago, there would never have been legalized "gay" marriage. It would be laughed out of town. Yet here we are, what's next? Legalized bigamy? Is NAMBLA going to win their case to legalize pedophilia? You may say that sounds crazy, but so did legalized gay marriage, or transvestites having their own TV show 30 years ago.
Acts 2:38
I think your window for history is pretty narrow.
Zobel said:
I think your window for history is pretty narrow.
How so?
Acts 2:38
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