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//riot of disorder:: · 10-27-2003, 07:36 PM

Here's a rebuttal to those who say that the signs of the end times are all around us.

How's about 1918:
1) war - all over Europe, millions involved, huge areas of land laid waste
2) plague - Spanish Flu, killed over 20 million
3) earthquakes - Puerto Rico, San Jacinto, Vancouver Island
4) famine - in Germany, caused by the British naval blockade. Presumably there was famine in Etheopia back then too...

Secular Elation · 10-27-2003, 07:37 PM

I wonder where Christians will stand 100 years from now. Will they still have the air to assume when the "end times" will come? Will the realize how absurd it is?

Magus55 · 10-27-2003, 07:55 PM

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Originally posted by Secular Elation
I wonder where Christians will stand 100 years from now. Will they still have the air to assume when the "end times" will come? Will the realize how absurd it is?

Nope, although its only your assumption that we will be here in 100 years. But the end times have no required time table - it will happen when it happens, whether thats in 5 years, or 5000. You may consider that a cop out, but no one knows the time of the end times except God. We can only speculate, and keep an eye out on worldly events that relate to Biblical prophecy.

faust · 10-27-2003, 08:28 PM

Rapture Index Hehehe.. This always amuses me.

Abacus · 10-27-2003, 08:29 PM

Around five billion years from now, the Sun will swell up into its red giant phase. The planets Mercury and Venus will be consumed in its fires. On earth, the oceans and the atmosphere will boil off into space. All life will be extinguished. Eventually, all nuclear fusion within the Sun will cease, and the red giant star will collapse under its own gravity. Our former home world will have been turned into a barren, lifeless rock orbiting an ever cooling and ever dimming white dwarf.

And still, Jesus will not have returned.

Rational BAC · 10-27-2003, 08:31 PM

There have been many "end times" in history. 1918 was a good one. The whole 14th century was another.

And I think 1942 was one of the best.

Magus55 · 10-27-2003, 08:40 PM

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Originally posted by Abacus
Around five billion years from now, the Sun will swell up into its red giant phase. The planets Mercury and Venus will be consumed in its fires. On earth, the oceans and the atmosphere will boil off into space. All life will be extinguished. Eventually, all nuclear fusion within the Sun will cease, and the red giant star will collapse under its own gravity. Our former home world will have been turned into a barren, lifeless rock orbiting an ever cooling and ever dimming white dwarf.

And still, Jesus will not have returned.

How do you know?

Magus55 · 10-27-2003, 08:42 PM

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Originally posted by Rational BAC
There have been many "end times" in history. 1918 was a good one. The whole 14th century was another.

And I think 1942 was one of the best.

No end times event has even scratched the surface of the chaos that will amount during the Tribulation, and Revelation scene. WWII will seem like a birthday for the care bears compared to that.

hezekiah jones · 10-27-2003, 09:11 PM

Originally posted by Magus55
WWII will seem like a birthday for the care bears compared to that.

Appropriate analogy, considering it also refers to imaginary cartoon characters for children.

No doubt quite impressive to WWII veterans and survivors of the dead as well.

Abacus · 10-27-2003, 09:28 PM

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Originally posted by Magus55
How do you know?

God told me so.

10-27-2003, 07:36 PM	#1
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10-27-2003, 07:37 PM	#2
Secular Elation Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: California Posts: 6,196	I wonder where Christians will stand 100 years from now. Will they still have the air to assume when the "end times" will come? Will the realize how absurd it is?

10-27-2003, 08:28 PM	#4
faust Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: baton rouge, la Posts: 539	Rapture Index Hehehe.. This always amuses me.

10-27-2003, 08:29 PM	#5
Abacus Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,214	Around five billion years from now, the Sun will swell up into its red giant phase. The planets Mercury and Venus will be consumed in its fires. On earth, the oceans and the atmosphere will boil off into space. All life will be extinguished. Eventually, all nuclear fusion within the Sun will cease, and the red giant star will collapse under its own gravity. Our former home world will have been turned into a barren, lifeless rock orbiting an ever cooling and ever dimming white dwarf. And still, Jesus will not have returned.

10-27-2003, 08:31 PM	#6
Rational BAC Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Tampa Bay area Posts: 3,471	There have been many "end times" in history. 1918 was a good one. The whole 14th century was another. And I think 1942 was one of the best.

10-27-2003, 09:11 PM	#9
hezekiah jones Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: WI Posts: 4,357	Originally posted by Magus55 WWII will seem like a birthday for the care bears compared to that. Appropriate analogy, considering it also refers to imaginary cartoon characters for children. No doubt quite impressive to WWII veterans and survivors of the dead as well.

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