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Are Biblical End Times Coming? Or Already Here?
Author explores connections between prophecy and current events
WND
Nobody thought they would live to see it. Surely it wouldn’t happen until after the Lord had returned. But on May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of the state of Israel. After 2,500 years, the Jewish people once again had a homeland in the Middle East.
However, almost immediately, enemies turned up on Israel’s doorstep. A coalition of Arab armies invaded the new nation the day after it was founded, and 10 months of fighting ensued.
Since then, Israel has hardly enjoyed a day of peace. Its never-ending wars with the surrounding Arab countries have been well-documented, as has its ongoing conflict with the Palestinians, who believe Israel’s land belongs to them. The Jewish state has faced a variety of rocket attacks and bombings, including two Palestinian intifadas.
Could all of this be a sign that we are nearing the biblical end times?
Carl Gallups, a Baptist pastor and talk radio host, certainly thinks so.
In “Final Warning: Understanding the Trumpet Days of Revelation,” published by WND Books, he argues that certain historical events of the past century fulfill biblical prophecies concerning the return of Jesus Christ at the end of history.
“It cannot be denied that we are living in very specific, biblically prophetic times, starting with the return of Israel, and then of course, with the alignment of nations coming against Israel, then with the rise of Islam and the falling of certain nations and the rising of other nations in the Middle East,” Gallups told WND in a recent interview.
The author pointed to several recent examples of prophetically significant events. The Islamic world is rising in militancy, he said, starting with the Arab Spring. Egypt has been destabilized by internal strife, as has Libya. ISIS is gaining territory and influence, and Islamic terror attacks have spread into Europe and the United States.
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“Many Bible experts and prophecy students believe that these things are happening in accordance with prophecies from God’s Word, and we’re watching them unfold before our eyes,” Gallups said.
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ALL RELIGIONS ARE FALSE AND SHOULD BE DESTROYED! WE ARE NOT IN THE END TIMES! THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE A RAPTURE! GOD OR JESUS IS NOT GOING TO SAVE ANYONE! THERE IS NO SATAN OR ANTICHRIST! THERE IS NO GOOD OR BAD! EVERYBODY GOES TO HEAVEN TO BE WITH GOD! DO AS YOU WILL, WITHOUT ANY FEAR OF ANY JUDGEMENT! THIS IS THE TRUTH! HANDLE IT!
The watcher;
The scriptures don’t support anything you’ve posted, except that religions of man are false. Revelation calls them “Babylon the Great” and says they WILL be destroyed by the eighth great world power, the U.N. The scriptures say that we ARE in the end of the end times of this system of things. The scriptures DO say that there is NO RAPTURE. The scriptures say that if one does the ENTIRE will of God, they will not be destroyed in the final battle. There IS an angel who opposed God, was tossed out of heaven when Jesus took his throne a hundred years ago, whose name IS Satan. The antichrist isn’t one person, but ALL who oppose Jesus and God. Since you reject God’s word and Jesus’ teachings, that does make you antichrist, but you could change that if you want. There IS good and bad. Only the annointed (with holy spirit) 144,000 go to heaven. NO ONE ELSE. Some of your post is true, most isn’t accurate at all. Study the scriptures, don’t just read them, and you will begin to see some of these things I’ve posted as being true. Otherwise, share the fate of 99.99% of the world’s population when the Kingdom takes over the ruling of Earth. That fate is, of course, total and permanent destruction. Realize that we do NOT have an immortal soul, as the scriptures VERY CLEARLY TEACH. There’s no part of us to send to heaven or hell (which isn’t a place of torment, but is the common grave of mankind).
“May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of the state of Israel.”
Which is on a par with a bunch of delinquent Harry Potter fans taking over your home at gunpoint and renaming it Hogwarts. It doesn’t make your home Hogwarts. The Jews are not Israelites they are European Immigrants that are only Jewish because their king decided they were going to be Jewish. And the Jews are the Pharisees who were a political party of wealthy influential money lenders and traders who invented Judaism after Rome destroyed Judea in 70 CE. Two completely different groups of people, if you are going to claim Jesus was Jewish then he was anti Jewish, preaching to pray in a closet out of sight, not showing off in public like the hypocrite Pharisees, to meet in fellowship anywhere, pull up a log or a rock. To obey all 613 laws better than the Pharisees.
The Jewish European immigrants have no claim on Palestine what so ever.
Why can’t you people live DAY TO DAY and enjoy the PRESENT???
We are in the end of the end times. When the U.N. begins attacking so called “Christian” churches, then we are in the beginning of the tribulation.