whitnebrat wrote:
Throughout history, predictions of 'end times' have been made and fallen by the wayside. I've lost track of the number of times that an "apocalypse" has been proclaimed or that the "end times" have been declared to have arrived. This is neither ... just a change in the direction of civilization.
I'm sure that the pestilences of the Mormons in early Utah must have seemed so. The Black Plague in Europe probably generated similar utterances. The invasion of Rome by the Vandals had to be similarly felt by the Romans. The "Heaven's Gate" cult died for their "end times". I could go on, but you get the picture.
This is not the end of the world, nor is it majorly catastrophic. Your lives will go on; you will continue to scream that your morals and marriages are in danger; you will continue to howl about the invasion of people that are not the same as you (race, religion or any other difference). Life will go on, and eventually even you will adapt, although you won't like or admit it.
Suck it up, it's not as bad as you paint it. You're creating your own high dudgeon, for which your anxiety is overblown and overplayed. Get a grip. Practice your religion as you see fit in your own churches and have a little tolerance for those with different divinities and viewpoints, while leaving others to do the same. "Judge not, let ye be judged."
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2 Timothy 3
King James Version
3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 T*****rs, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the t***h.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the t***h: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Those that have denied the Holy Spirit will no doubt not understand these scriptures, but it does not make them any less true! There is trouble coming, many will suffer......the difference between those that have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior is that we can rest in the assurance that wh**ever happens our eternity is guaranteed.
I hope you and the others will read these scriptures and remember them! Hopefully, the time will come when you will depend on God’s word, not man’s! God help you if you don’t!
MARANATHA