hifen said:
K, due to many political happenings, technologies, and prophecies being fufilled, has brought my attention to the book of revelation, and in realisation that this could and possibly will take place within my or the next generation (within the next 100 years), any comments, arguments or insights is what i'm looking for here.
In my personal opinion the world will never end.
The people living in the bible days thought that the world was going to end during their lifetime.
In the 24th chapter of Matthews when Jesus was talking about the end, he said "Mt 24:34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled". When the temple was destroyed there were followers of Jesus still alive.
He talked about the stars falling from the sky to the earth. Don't worry, that will never happen because the smallest star in the sky is the same size of the earth.
Paul even thought that Jesus was going to appear during his lifetime according to the following verses:
1Th 4:16
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1Th 4:17
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
THE BOOK OF THESSALONIANS WAS WRITTEN BEFORE THE GOSPELS.
The first verse of Revelations speaks of things SHORTLY to come, not 2000 years later and the book was written solely to the seven churches in Mediterranean.
Re 1:1
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Re 1:10
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Re 1:11
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
People have been preparing for the end of time for the past 2000 years and will still be looking for the end to occur for the next 2000 years.