QuestioningMind
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Prophesy, when it is unfolding before our eyes is hard to deny. I believe that we are living in "the Lord's Day" as described in Revelation. It is "the time of the end" that was also prophesied in the book of Daniel over 2,500 years ago. (Daniel 12:9-10) Daniel gave us a timeline of world powers that especially interacted with Israel, beginning with Babylon. It takes us through successive kingdoms in a direct line, all the way to the Anglo-American world power. The line ends with them. This is what Daniel said would happen in the time of those final ruling powers.....
Daniel 2:44:
“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever"
Jesus also gave a sign to show when the last days began.....
Matthew 24:3:
"While he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately, saying: “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?”
He went on to relate all the things that would indicate that this present system is about to come to an end.
It began with unprecedented warfare, (WW1) followed by food shortages, great earthquakes, disease, increase in lawlessness and the quality of love disappearing from the world. The world has been in a steady decline since 1914.
The apostle Paul told Timothy.....
"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these." (2 Timothy 3:1-5 NASB)
It is no surprise at all that things are looking grim. Nation after nation is in political turmoil. Humanity are loosing faith in their leaders and in man's ability to rectify his mistakes. Corrupt leaders and greed are ruining lives in the majority of nations. The rich are getting richer and the poor are forgotten.
Children die of starvation whilst others are dying from obesity.
Love is not seen in all the places where it used to be......families and neighborhoods. Nobody cares anymore. Parents have lost control of their children. Children have been granted rights but have no responsibility. Selfishness has reached new heights. I hate where this has led us.
Are you confident of the future in man's hands? I'm not.....I would rather put myself in Gods hands. I am confident that he knows what he's doing.
The problem with prophecy is that it's so vague it can apply to virtually anything. Gullible people have been reading those same prophecies for 2000 years, imagining that it all applied to what was happening in their lives at the time.