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Originally Posted by Ohio
Obviously if you heed the many false prophecies of the end time like the Millerite SDA (1844), the Mayans (2012), or the Arabs (2022), it’s kind of like those predicted by Climate Prophets like Al Gore, John Kerry, AOC, or Greta Thunberg.
There is, however, a definite blessing in reading (1.3 out loud?) the Revelation of Jesus Christ. After these events in Revelation begin to occur, many Christians will wish they had heeded this instruction more carefully.
Today we are in a time of great delusion and lawlessness, with a tremendous adversity to truth, all predicted by Paul in 2 Thess 2. The Bible clearly instructs us to watch for the signs of the end times, rather than attempt to ascribe some date. The only times and dates we should consider are after the age of grace, the fullness of the Gentiles, when the Temple is restored in Israel. That event starts the clock.
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Agreed. We are commanded to "watch". Any conclusions we may reach based on what we "see" are due to our own natural interpretation of events. Events before our eyes today are more global than ever before, due to the fact that news today is global. I think this might make a difference in how we view what's going on in the world today as compared to the past. There seems to be a clearer convergence of end-times events like never before.
Just because, in man's finite wisdom, events seem to get restarted and this war or that war has been going on seemingly "forever", does this relieve believers of the responsibility to watch and pray?
So what are we supposed to do? IMHO, be ready...get ready. Talk to Him. Repent. Stand firm. We don't know everything! We don't NEED to know everything. We NEED to know HIM. Here's another biggie "Lean not to your own understanding."
Nell